BBC: Singer Rihanna has said she “couldn’t be more proud” after being given a new ambassadorial role by the government of Barbados. The artist, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, was named “Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary” for her home country on Thursday. The role involves promoting education, tourism and investment. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley…
Desk Report: The availability of foreign grant has been declining over the past few years, putting the government’s budget financing under pressure, reports The Financial Express. Development partners now view that Bangladesh’s gross national income (GNI) has increased, and that’s why the country can get less grant or the aid which need not be repaid….
BBC: Twitter has told an undisclosed number of users their private messages may have been leaked to third-parties for more than a year. The software “bug”, which has since been fixed, involved direct messages between users and businesses that offer customer services via Twitter. Affected users are being notified via a message that appeared when opening…
Desk Report: Shuvongkar’s mother was the one who supported him the most to achieve his dream. We have come across many people who have travelled all over Bangladesh before. But for the first time in history, someone has made a map of our country using soil from all 64 districts. Shuvongkar Paul, from the Barangkula…
Dr James J. Zogby, President of Arab American Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan national leadership organisation/Middle East Monitor Preventing Palestine is an insightful book that sheds lights on Israeli intransigence, and failure of successive US administrations and regional leaders Seth Anziska’s ‘Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo’ is a deeply insightful and…
NDTV: A tiny handmade doll made out of soiled and damaged fabric has become a symbol of survival and hope for a group of weavers, whose dreams and livelihood were washed away by the floods last month in Kerala. A month after the deluge had ravaged Chendamangalam, a traditional handloom village in Ernakulam district, the weavers…
Desk Report: Some influential quarters are cutting down roadside trees in Kashiani upazila without taking any permission from the local administration, putting the environment of the upazila in jeopardy. Many valuable big-size trees along both sides of several roads like Narai-Rukra, Sitarumpur-Poshiur, Shilta-Rajpat, Taltola-Rmadia and some other local roads are being cut down as the…
Desk Report: Capital market should be the key funding source for Bangladesh’s future economic expansion instead of banks and financial institutions, experts said, reports The Financial Express. Such shift is also necessary to attain sustainable development goals (SDGs) as some 42 per cent of the SDG financing here should come from the private sector. They…
Anadolu Agency: A dengue fever outbreak has killed 71 people in Thailand in 2018, according to the Health Ministry. The ministry said in a Sunday statement that more than 57,000 people in 27 regions have been affected by the disease since January. It also said this year’s dengue death toll doubled the figures in 2017…
Desk Report: Islamic University authorities suspended one of its students for one academic year for allegedly slapping a female student of his own department, REPORTS The Daily Sun. The decision was made at an emergency meeting held at IU administration building with IU Vice-Chancellor Professor M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari in the chair, sources at IU registrar…