Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Executive Editor, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : It is not unknown to people any more that Social media is acting in mobilizing extremism and disseminating false information. In response to the misuse of the platform to spread propaganda and disinformation, Facebook announced in December 2016 that it would work…
Abrar Hussain: Bangladesh women’s national basketball team shooting guard Ashreen Mridha has become the first Bangladeshi basketball player to join the Global Sports Mentoring Program (GSMP) funded by ESPN and the United States. She is scheduled to depart Dhaka for United States today evening. She confirmed the news to Banglanews yesterday. Ashreen Mridha, former captain…
Hossen Sohel: Dhaka North City Corpo-ration Panel Mayor-1 Osman Gani died at a hospital in Singapore yesterday morning. He was 69.He, who had been suffering from lungs cancer, breathed his last at Singapore General Hospital at 8:35am (Bangladesh Time) while undergoing treatment there, said public relations officer of DNCC Al Mamun. Osmani Gani went to…
Utpal Dutta, Editorial Assistant, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : Former Chief Justice of Bangladesh, now in abroad or exile as people believes, has published his autobiography on Amazon web service, AWS couple of days ago. The autobiography, not yet arrived although, shocks, incite many in his native country. Overwhelming emotion comprising anger,…
Reuters: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Darwin in November in a first for a Japanese leader since the Japanese imperial army bombed the Australian city during World War II, Australian media reported on Saturday. Abe will tour a $40 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project run by Japanese company Inpex Corp, according to…
Muhammad Ali Bukhari from Toronto: Surpr-isingly the recent book of Bangladesh former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in kindle edition, A broken dream: The status of rule of law, human rights and democracy, ranks at number 1 in terms of selling in biography categories of law in its hourly updates as of September 22, 2018…
Anadolu Agency, Turkey: A team of Bangladeshi researchers invented a low-cost technology to diagnose cancer through a blood test, local media reported. The diagnose process will take only five minutes to deliver a result and it will cost about Taka 500 ($6), The Daily Star, a local daily, quoted the research team as saying during…
Desk Report: The bumper production of Boro has helped the country’s rice stocks to reach a record high, reports Daily Sun. The government has almost achieved its rice procurement target in the current Boro season due to bumper output of the staple. The total stock of food grain has now reached 15.78 lakh metric tons…
Arafat Hasan: The Philippine government yesterday warned about sex traffickers preying on Filipino women by offering jobs via the social media. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is warning Filipinos seeking jobs abroad against sex trafficking syndicates using social media to offer work in Malaysia, Singapore and other countries. The DFA issued the warning after…
UNB: Comparing to their non-slum urban and village counterparts, community living in urban slums in Bangladesh get far less access to maternal and child health service. Only 29 percent population of the urban slum community gets access to maternal and child health service as against such access percentage of 56 and 65 for communities living…