Sheikh Mohammad Fahim I used the word “Choose” to symbolize two very important things. The first being that choosing to go professional with a game is not a decision that particularly puts you on a straight route. You will never make it on the first attempt. That’s a given. Choosing to go down the path…
BSS Poverty has been part and parcel of lives of Farida Yeasmin, 50, and her mother Aklima Begum, 70, since lost their husbands in tender age. Farida has been habituated to face difficulties since her childhood with demise of her father when she was just four. She at her age of 40 later fell in…
BSS: Japan will give Taka 211.74 crore or 2,729 million Japanese Yen as grant for enhancing the rescue capacity of the Bangladesh Coast Guard. The agreement was signed today by Economic Relations Division (ERD) secretary Kazi Shofiqul Azam and the Chief Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Bangladesh Hitoshi Hirata at ERD conference room…
Science Alert: In the water, it’s getting harder to breathe. Suffocating dead zones with little or no oxygen are pervading the world’s oceans, rivers, and streams. This phenomenon – which has exploded in recent decades – poses an extinction-level nightmare for marine populations already beset by a complex interaction of human-made menace. When it comes…
DOT Desk: A new service to help consumers get exact weight of goods purchased in the kitchen markets will be launched at the end of this month, an official said, reports Financial Express. The service, called ‘Ojon Bondhu’ (Friend for weighing), is an initiative of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) to make…
Samiul Bashar Samin Our fascination with visiting museums draws on the cult of adulation for the unique work of art, as explored by Walter Benjamin in ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’. We want an authentic encounter as opposed to the experience of gazing at reproductions in books. It’s the reason…
Desk Report: A chartered accountant of Dulali village in Bhelabari union under Aditmari upazila is encouraging farmers to cultivate tea instead of tobacco on their fields in the plainland by cultivating tea himself and earning good profit. “At first, the farmers did not believe that it is possible to cultivate tea on the plainland, but…
UNB: BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Sunday said Awami League is now sensing the smell of a ‘1/11 like dangerous’ situation as the party was behind such a conspiracy in 2007. “It’s usual that you (AL) smell the emergence of 1/11 as you were behind it. You’d brought the 1/11 by creating anarchy…
Al Jazeera Thunderstorms have lit up the skies of Mecca for four consecutive days. The storms brought torrential rain and triggered power cuts in the holy city which receives just 110 millimetres of rain annually on average. Residents posted photos and videos on social media, as they celebrated the wet weather. The heaviest of the…
Afrida Ahmed: Protesters are planning to give abortion pills this week from a bus touring Northern Ireland in protest against the ban on terminations in the area. After the referendum in Republic on Friday, Northern Ireland will be the only place in UK and Ireland where abortion is prohibited. Members of Rosa (Reproductive Rights, Against…