Desk Report: The authorities yesterday suspended 11 Chittagong University students, belonging to Bangladesh Chhatra League, on various charges. Proctor Ali Asgar Chowdhury disclosed the decision at a press conference. Mahmudul Hasan Rupak of English department was suspended for one year for beating a journalist on September 10. Sabbir Hossain and Rajibul Alam of history department…
Desk Report: Razib Ahmed, former president of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB), will receive a grant of $50,000 for further development of the project Facebook has selected Bangladeshi entrepreneur Razib Ahmed as a fellow of its “Community Leadership Program” for his group ”Search English” where members help each other to become more fluent in…
Psychology Today: Is it “normal” to call your mother multiple times a day. Is an annual visit at Christmas and a monthly phone call “healthy”? Do you have a family whatsapp group in which you share photos and videos? Or are you part of a family whose videos of your get-togethers have gone viral on social…
Wio News: The Russian parliament’s lower house, State Duma passed the controversial pension bill in key second reading yesterday. The bill passed with 326 votes for, 59 against and one abstention raised the pension age for women by five years to 60 and for men to 65. The bill was approved after lawmakers earlier during…
Reuters: German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Kukies on Wednesday urged insurers to prepare for a no-deal Brexit and added that the German government was very interested in attracting financial service providers looking to leave Britain due to Brexit. British Prime Minister Theresa May signaled on Tuesday that she would prefer a ‘no-deal’ Brexit to the…
Edward Hoke, Actor and writer/Thrive Global, California Social media isn’t making us happy. We need to change things up. The story of Solon of Athens and King Croesus is a story about happiness. I won’t bore you with the details, but essentially Croesus wanted to prove to Solon that he was the happiest man alive,…
M Humayun Kabir: The Asian Development Bank projected that the economic growth for Bangladesh for the current fiscal year may be 7.5 percent, slightly below than the government’s estimate of 7.8 percent. In its Asian Development Outlook 2018 released on Wednesday, the bank said the growth will be achieved due to the increase in private…
Desk Report: E-book library ‘Sheiboi’ has launched an experience booth on the Bangladesh Shishu Academy premises. This experience booth or Kiosk was inaugurated by director of the academy Anzir Liton and Sheiboi Project Manager Shahidul Islam. The app can be downloaded from http://bit.ly/1cdmwQh on Android and from http://apple.co/2kfotmT on iPhone. The e-book library hosts more…
Arafat Hasan: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Germany this week as the two countries seek to rebuild ties after a series of sharp spats, however, the trip is likely to be overshadowed by protests. It will be Erdogan’s first official visit to Germany since becoming president in 2014, and follows a prolonged bout…
ScienceDaily: A summary of the experiments is published Sept. 20 in Current Biology, and if the findings are validated, the researchers say, they may open opportunities for accurately studying the impact of psychiatric drug therapies in many animals distantly related to people. “The brains of octopuses are more similar to those of snails than humans,…