Hossen Sohel of DOT Awami League candidate for Dhaka-3 seat Nasrul Hamid has visited his counterpart Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, a BNP leader who has been injured in violence before the election, reports bdnews24.com. The state minister for power visited Gayeshwar in his offices in Paltan yesterday. They both spoke for a while and Nasrul offered…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed writes for DOT : BNP Secretary General voiced strong doubt about credible polls scheduled to take place today. He further added that it is not easy to revive the “dead democracy as people have lost their confidence in the country’s election system”. He also said they could not carry out the electioneering…
UNB: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Bangladesh on Thursday signed an agreement for $100 million in grant to help develop basic infrastructure and services for Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar camps. The grant assistance forms part of an envisaged package totaling $200 million. Secretary, Economic Relations Division (ERD) Kazi Shofiqul Azam and…
Nature, natural resources, biodiversity, especially hills, mixed evergreen forests, rivers and water bodies, coastal and marine ecosystems, joint education and research work will be done by the University of Chittagong and Isabella Foundation in order to cooperate with each other, a meeting was held at the university’s vice-chancellor’s office on 26 October at 3:00 pm…
Arab News Iran confirmed on Tuesday that it had carried out a recent test of a medium-range ballistic missile after Western powers sharply criticised a December 1 launch. “We are continuing our missile tests and this recent one was a significant test,” the Fars news agency reported, citing Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander Brigadier General Amirali…
BDnews24: Hasina made the appointment on her own authority as prime minister, a circular from the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday. Joy’s appointment is part-time and he will not take salary for the job, according to the circular. He will work on orders and advice of the prime minister. The Awami League has earned…
Samiul Bashar Samin The soothing music we all hear overhead in supermarkets causes us to walk more slowly and buy more food, whether we need it or not. Most of the vacuous thoughts and intense feelings our teenagers experience from morning till night are carefully orchestrated by highly skilled marketing professionals working in our fashion…
Interviewed by Xasir Berserk Former Secretary and Ambassador for Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wali Ur Rahman recently had a talk with Daily Our Time on ongoing Rohingya issue. Regarding India, China and Russia’s taking side with Myanmar; later India, China envoy’s assurance to stay with Bangladesh- Wali Ur Rahman shared his views with us. According…
Desk Report: The full moon has brought hilsa in large numbers to river estuaries, enabling the fishermen to net plenty of hilsa and making good profits, reports Daily Sun. “Fishermen have been netting huge numbers of hilsa from different rivers estuaries including the Bay-of-Bengal since the full moon from August 26-27,” said Dr M Anisur…
Desk Report: Ghost imaging is one of the more extraordinary advances in optics in recent years. It produces high-resolution images using single-pixel cameras and light that has never interacted with the object in question. The technique relies on clever algorithms to crunch the seemingly random data that a single pixel appears to gather. More on…