Retuers: The United States government had no involvement in Saturday’s drone blast at a military event where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was giving a speech, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said on Sunday. “I can say unequivocally there is no U.S. government involvement in this at all,” Bolton told “Fox News Sunday” in an…
Gwyn D’Mello/ India Times When Apple first debuted the iPhone in 2007, it was a phenomenal success. No one had ever seen anything like it. Now, the pioneering smartphone has lost some of its luster. That happens a lot in tech but the question is, can Apple survive the fallout from that? At the start…
DOT Desk: Visa trading goes uncontrolled badly affecting the lives of Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait as many of them still remain jobless there, victims and insiders said, reports The Financial Express. In addition, they said, many workers already returned home empty-handed from the oil-rich country. A section of politically influential persons in collusion with some…
Desk Report: The top 100 contestants, aiming for the Miss World Bangladesh 2018 crown, locked horns at head-to-head round at Bangladesh Film Development Corporation. The pageant, organised by Antar Showbiz, aims to find Miss World Bangladesh 2018, who will represent Bangladesh at the upcoming Miss World 2018. The 68th edition of Miss World pageant will…
Marilyn Thipthorpe From the recent devastating loss of Artists Khalid Mahmood Mithu to the loss of filmmaker Tareq Masud, Bangladesh\s roads have become a deadly place to be. These are just the high profile cases that get reported but what of the lowly commoner, who tells his story? The Bangladesh Passengers Welfare Association reveled in…
Tarannum Sattar Mark Zuckerberg is the personification of a lone-entrepreneur model: a college dropout and technology disrupter. But it is alo trure that Mark had many influential support, including Steve Jobs. In fact, Zuckerburg credits Jobs with teaching him about building strong teams and keeping the company focused. Undoubtedly, that connection helped Mark turn Facebook…
Reuters: Japan must act urgently to protect tens of thousands of workers laboring to clean up the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station from reported exploitation and exposure to radiation, U.N. human rights experts said on Thursday. Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings (Tepco), which owns the nuclear power station that was struck by a tsunami…
Anadolu Agency “Hobbit homes” built in Turkey’s central Sivas province have attracted interest of many domestic and foreign tourists. Inspire by the famous fantasy novel and movie, The Lords of the Rings, the municipality in Sivas province has built underground homes. In The Lord of the Rings, hobbits are fictional and tiny humanoid race in…
Syed Nasir Ershad There exists a long run relationship between the remittance and other variables like per capita GDP of home country as well as host country, broad money, exchange rate etc. Depreciation of domestic currency decreases the prices of goods and services in the foreign currency, which instigates a migrant to pay for more…