UNB The soaring, white transportation hub opening next week at the World Trade Center was designed to evoke a bird in flight, but it is hatching under a cloud. There will be no ribbon-cutting celebration when the train station’s grand hall, called the Oculus, opens this coming week because the head of the bi-state…
Eshan Maitra Did you know, there is only two playgrounds in the whole Dhanmondi area? Again, most of parts are owned by Abahoni club, that only they get to use. Rest of the pace is big enough. But not big enough for 10 football and 15 or above cricket games at the same time. Means,…
Reported by: Rupayan Talukdar Members of Awami League and its associate organizations greeted Kujendra Lal Tripura with flowers after being nominated for the post of tribal refugee rehabilitation and rehabilitation task force in India. On Monday morning, leaders and activists came to Kadamtali parliamentary party’s residence to greet Kujendra Lal Tripura with flowers. He expressed…
M Humayun Kabir: The 42nd death anniversary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be observed today with due respect across the country. Nazrul, revered as Bidrohi Kobi (a rebel poet) for his activism for political and social justice, breathed his last in Dhaka on 12th Bhadro of Bangla calendar year 1383 (August 29, 1976)…
Desk Report: The prices of most of the stocks saw a positive trend in the early hour of trading on Wednesday as investors were showing their buying spree on sector-wise stocks. Following the previous day’s upward movement, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened higher amid rising trading activities. Within…
Desk Report: As part of its fresh journey, The Farmers Bank Limited is set to carry out its banking operations under a new name from January 2019, the officials said, reports Financial Express. The bank’s vice-chairman Hasan Imam was the chief guest in the programme while CEO Mr Khasru chaired the event. As part of…
Desk Report: The central bank has asked commercial banks to ensure round-the-clock operations of alternative delivery channels (ADCs) during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha holidays in order to facilitate smooth transactions, reports the financial express. The ADCs include ATM (automated teller machine), POS (point of sale), e-payment gateway and mobile financial services (MFS) through which a customer…
VOA News: As the United States and North Korea engage in rare, high-level diplomacy to resolve disputes over the North’s nuclear weapons program, there’s new attention focused on Pyongyang’s abduction of Japanese citizens four decades ago. Tokyo and Pyongyang have long been at odds over the truth-really-is-stranger-than-fiction stories of abductions by North Korea in the…
Desk Report: Grameen Nippon, the Japanese version of Grameen Bank, has recently been launched in Tokyo of Japan aiming to reduce the economic gap in the society. Masahiro Kan, the founder and President of Grameen Nippon, is the former Executive Director for Japan at World Bank and former executive director of African Development Bank.
Penn State: A new method to measure the temperature of atoms during the explosive death of a star will help scientists understand the shock wave that occurs as a result of this supernova explosion. An international team of researchers, including a Penn State scientist, combined observations of a nearby supernova remnant — the structure remaining…