Hindustan Times: The swimsuits are gone, but there has been plenty of controversy surrounding this year’s Miss America competition that could keep viewers tuning in. The next Miss America will be crowned on Sunday on a nationally televised broadcast on ABC from Atlantic City. This year marks the first time the broadcast will not include a…
DOT Desk The government has collected mobile phone data of around 7 crore subscribers from four network operators, reports The New Age. The operators gave the data on demand from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, BTRC officials said. The telecom regulator collected the data following demand from prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s power and energy adviser…
UNB A man was beaten to death over a loan of Tk 15,000 his brother-in-law taken from a local moneylender in Sujanagar upazila in the district on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Kashi Nath Halder, 50, son of Sannashi Halder of Bhabanipur in the upazila.
By The Writers, Editors and Producers of VICE/ MotherBoard Our editorial response to today’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling. We thought about starting this editorial with a defiant “journalism is under attack” statement. And that’s true. But what we’re also feeling today is a profound sense of disappointment—that our society has failed to recognize the…
DOT Desk: The Direc-torate of National Consumer Rights Protection on Tuesday fined 61 businesses Tk 3.32 lakh in charge of various offences including producing food in unhygienic environment, reports The Daily Sun. Mobile teams of the DNCRP conducted the drives in 20 districts headed by 22 top officials as part of its routine market monitoring….
BSS Members of the Chittagong Metropolitan police in a raid arrested two men for their alleged involvement in peddling drugs from city’s Eidgah area in Halishahor thana on Tuesday night. They also seized 850 pieces of yaba tablets from their possession. The arrestees were identified as Nur Hossain, 28 and Nazrul Islam, 29, hailed from…
Tanzim Arnob Hajj begins on the night of August 30 and ends on the night of September 4 in BDT (3 hours ahead the time in Mecca). The dates were announced on Tuesday by the Saudia Arabia’s Official High Court after first sight of new moon crescent witnessed by the astronomers and others.”There has been…
Desk Report: People belonging to backward Dalit and Harijan communities formed a human chain along DB Road in the town yesterday demanding their representation in parliament and quota in government services. Bangladesh Dalit and Excluded Rights Movement (BDERM), Janouddog, Harijan Oikya Parishad, Bangladesh Rabidas Unnayan Parishad, Abalambon and Bangladesh Rabidas Forum jointly organised the programme….
NTV Concerned about producing a generation of children with hunched backs and other spine problems, India has denounced schools for making students carry heavy school bags and giving young children homework. The government has issued weight guidelines for school bags depending on a child’s age, citing studies that show how the load can affect soft,…