Hindustan Times: A middle-income commuter of the Delhi Metro on an average spends 19.5% of her income on travel, data released by Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) showed. But a commuter should not have to spend more than 15% of the income on any mode of transport, experts from the organisation said. On Tuesday,…
AFP Qatar is to leave OPEC next month in order for the Gulf state to focus on gas production, Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi announced on Monday. “Qatar has decided to withdraw its membership from OPEC effective January 2019,” Kaabi said at a Doha press conference. He added that Qatar would still continue to produce oil…
Nusrat Jahan Every day, you have the same schedule- work, eat, sleep, and repeat. With all our daily hurdles, we often tend to lose ourselves and what is important to us in a pool of stress; we lose our soul purpose. However, if we rediscover ourselves, we will lead a much more triumphant and satisfying,…
Desk Report: The government has abandoned the contingency coal import plan lingering the northern region’s grapple with power woes, reports The Financial Express. Higher import costs and restart of coal extraction from the Barapukuria underground coalmine led the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) to abandon the coal import plan, a senior BPDB official told…
Rumi Akter, Research Assistant (International Affairs), Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA) Recently, the Shahjalal International Airport of Bangladesh is deemed to be the home of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), a new kind of drugs which is popular as “Khat” in Bangla. On 31 August this year, an amount of 466kg of the…
UNB: According to a statement issued by the Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Ltd (BGFCL), the well was a work-over one which is now producing 16 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd). Officials at state-owned Petropbangla said its subsidiary Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex) has successfully completed its work-over jobs at the field recently….
Desk Report A man has died in an alleged shootout at Chattogram’s Pahartali. The incident took place at Uttar Kattali Beribadh on Wednesday midnight, said Pahartali Police Station chief Sadeep Kumar Das. Police identified the robber as 25-year-old Sabuj from Shapla Residential Area in Pahartali neighbourhood. He was known as ‘Picchi Sabuj’ among the locals,…
Sustir Sarker, Netrokona Correspondent: Netrokona Police have recovered a drug seller body from Bangla Union of Netrokona Sadar. The body identified as Hadich Mia. Five people were arrested in connection with the incident. The body was recovered from Digha Chatalakona Bazar of the union on Saturday at 11:30 pm. The injured person has injuries in…
AFP When Mana Izumi got her first tattoo at 18, she wasn’t trying to rebel or shatter any taboos — just copy Japanese pop diva Namie Amuro’s beach-bronze “surfer chick” look. In Japan, where tattoos have for centuries been demonised for their association with criminals, former porn star Izumi turns heads with her copper tan,…
Russia Today: After Prime Minister Medvedev accused the US of declaring a trade war with its latest sanctions against Russia, experts weigh up how much damage each country might inflict on the other and what Moscow can do to dodge the blows. Labeled “draconian” by both sides, the White House sanctions over Russia’s alleged involvement…