UNB, Dhaka President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) Abdul Matlub Ahmed has urged the newly elected BMCCI leaders to work towards enhancing trade with Malaysia by three fold over the next two years. He made the call when the Board of Directors of the Bangladesh-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and…
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay/ Aljazeera The BJP lost in three Hindi-speaking states but that does not necessarily mean they will lose the 2019 national vote. On December 11, liberals in India finally had reason to smile. The governing Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) electoral losses in state elections across India proved that stopping the juggernaut of the Hindu…
Abrar Hussain Two journalists from the Reuters news agency were charged by Myanmar prosecutors with violating the Official Secrets Act on Wednesday despite international condemnation, reports Abc News.Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested Dec. 12 after they were accused of breaking colonial-era law by acquiring “important secret papers” from two policemen who had worked…
DOT Desk In a bid to expanding maize cultivation in the Sylhet region, 200 demonstration plots of hybrid variety of the crop are being set in four selected upazilas, reports The Financial Express. An official of a special project named ‘Raising crop intensity in Sylhet division’ of the Department of Agriculture Extension Md Forhad Mia…
Syed Nasir Ershad Last week I said that the point of art is to refute whatever it is we have made up our minds about. Leo Tolstoy, the famous novelist with a tendency to radicalize, wrote a cautionary fable about a meretricious society woman who had an adulterous affair with a worthless cavalry officer and…
Riku Amir The monthly salary of 143 doctors of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) have been cancelled permanently. According to sources, these doctors have not been paid their salary of March while other doctors and employees of (BSMMU) received their payment. When they met the Vice Chancellor, Professor Dr. Kamrul Hasan Khan to get…
Written by: Eshan Maitra Bangladesh Bank’s Credit Information Bureau (CIB) keeping tabs on all the big to small loan defaulters. CIB database & this whole division has been rejuvenated with newer & timely suitable strategies. From now on, CIB will keep all the credit history of the bank customers. developments are on the way, informed…
AFP: Right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to crack down on political corruption, violent crime and ignite a moribund economy with deregulation and fiscal discipline, will be sworn in as Brazil’s president on Tuesday. The former Army captain and seven-term fringe congressman rode a wave of anti-establishment anger to became Brazil’s first far-right president…
Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University/The Conversation, Australia When you grow up with no books in the house except maybe the full Readers Digest set of Catherine Cooksons and Bert Ryan’s Guide to Fishing you worship other heroes. The great battles in life are not going down in drama theatres, they’re…
Tech Explorist: A team of Indian scientists has developed a new technique that promises to help produce bioactive dental filling materials which will take much lesser time for the formation of new bone tissues. Bioactive dental filling materials are gaining popularity as they last longer, restore minerals in teeth and slow down secondary tooth decay…