Desk Report: As many as 482 prisoners, who have been serving for years in Khulna jail on minor convictions, will be released as per the directives of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to ease overcrowding in the prison, reports Prothom Alo. The jail authorities prepared the list based on a set of parameters before sending it…
Desk Report: Good news for comic book fans. Bengal Boi has launched a comic corner named Comic Cache, reports New Age. Comic fans can get their hands on rare comic books and more displayed at Comic Cache, which was launched at Chilekohta, located at the rooftop of Bengal Boi in Lalmatia. Bengal Boi is displaying…
Reuters: Russia on Tuesday accused Israel of indirectly causing a Russian military plane to be shot down near Syria’s Mediterranean coast, and threatened to retaliate against Israel for what it described as a hostile act. Russia’s Defence Ministry said the Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft, with 15 Russian service personnel on board, was brought down by anti-aircraft…
Ashikur Rahman, Senior economist at Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh/BDnews24 Why do people make bad political choices? Why is it that well performing governments are often not appreciated for the milestones they have reached? One possible explanation is that people often take the advancements that they have collectively availed under a particular leadership for granted….
Desk Report: Admission test for the first year B. Sc Engineering courses in Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) under its 2018-19 academic session will be held on October 21, reports Daily Asian Age. Process of the application form has been started. Among the applicants, 8,000 students will be scrutinized on the basis of…
Sayeed Muhammad: The per capita income decreases to $1,751 in the current fiscal year, down from the last fiscal year’s $1,752, said Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.He disclosed the information before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the ECNEC meeting at the NEC conference room yesterday, reports The Financial Express. The per capita income has decreased…
Beatrice Alba, Research Fellow, La Trobe University/The conversation, Australia Gender inequality is very real in 2018. Australian parliament is a toxic place for women. Women in the media and science are targeted and harassed because of their gender. Male domination of women occurs at an interpersonal level, and in our everyday interactions. But how we…
Sayeed Muhammad: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) has cleared a Tk 3,825.34 crore project to procure 1.5 lakh electronic voting machines (EVMs) ahead of the polls to be held in the year-end. The approval came from the weekly Ecnec meeting held at the NEC conference room here with Prime Minister Sheikh…
Sayeed Muhammad: Lower-than-expected sales in an auction of Pakistani government vehicles have caused another early debacle to new Prime Minister Imran Khan’s pledge to raise quick revenues through cost-cutting. The auction yesterday raised about $1.6 million, said government official Mohammad Asif, reports Reuters. The amount is just one-tenth of what he had predicted, and only…
UNB: Path Pathshala’, an educational institution with a different approach of learning, is working for raising consciousness among children and residents living nearby rail lines in Naoapara municipality area of Abhoynagar upazila, aiming a clean and enlightened locality. “I swear I will never throw stone on running train; if anyone does I will prohibit him,…