Kabir Humayun: A godfather of human trafficking gang that trafficked hundreds of Bangladeshis to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal during 2009 and 2015 was arrested from the capital yesterday. Criminal Investigation Department (CID), in a raid at Karwan Bazar in the city, made the arrest of Mohammad Asem, said CID Special Superintendent Molla Nazrul,…
BSS: Farmers in the district have started cotton harvesting with a production target of 750 metric tonnes (MTs) of seed cotton in the current season. Sources concerned said the farmers cultivated different varieties of cotton seeds on 225 hectares of land in the district this year. Amid a favourable climatic condition, a total of 1650…
Reuters: Jack Ma, the charismatic co-founder of China’s largest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, will step down as chairman in one year to concentrate on philanthropy and education, passing on the reins to trusted lieutenant Daniel Zhang. Ma, who turned 54 on Monday, has long flagged plans to step back, insisting that Alibaba management…
BSS Taking the burden of her five-member family expenses on her tiny shoulder, 10-year Rokhsana works at a bidi factory in Lalmonirhat leaving her out of education, a basic right of children. Living in Kalmatirpara of Lalmonirhat district, she has been preparing bidi shells with her mother as a child labour since the age of…
UNB Lionel Messi scored with an unstoppable free kick to help Barcelona come from behind to beat Sevilla 2-1 on Sunday, a record-equaling 34th game without loss that kept the champions on track to retain their Spanish league title. Sevilla’s Victor “Vitolo” Machin struck first for the visitors in the 20th minute, but Messi curled…
Taylor Lorenz, Staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers technology/Channel NewsAsia #dropboxlinks has gone viral after hundreds of users posted memes about the tag’s concerning material. A hashtag war has been brewing on Instagram between users who appear to be trading child pornography and the memers intent on stopping them. A network of users…
UNB: UNB: The 77th death anniversary of the Bard of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore was observed on Monday. Different organisations held many programmes while television channels aired special productions based on Rabindranath Tagore’s works. Tagore was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, as well as a composer whose works reshaped Bangla literature and music in the…
BSS: The government has decided to observe the 88th birth anniversary of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib nationally with due respect on August 8. The Women and Child Affairs Ministry has taken elaborate programmes marking the anniversary, said an official release here yesterday. Marking the day, a discussion will be held at the Bangabandhu International Conference…
BSS The Rural Electrification Board (REB) has brought 8,539 villages of Rangpur division under electricity coverage in last ten years improving human resources, rural economy and life-style of the rural people. After the rural electrification, entrepreneurs are establishing power- run cottage, (small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and agro-based industries creating jobs while farmers operating irrigation…