AP: Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and his wife have announced that they are divorcing. Johnson and Marina Wheeler said in a joint statement Friday that they separated “several months ago” after 25 years of marriage and have now decided to divorce. The couple said divorce proceedings are now underway. “As friends we will…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Both sides in the Yemen conflict agreed on Wednesday to reopen Sanaa airport and resume oil and gas exports. However, the agreement on the Red Sea port of Hodeidah and a cooperation deal on the crumbling economy remained elusive as the clock ticked down to the last day of talks. Another…
Abrar Hussain: The Kennedy Space Centre in the United States has invited visitors to attend the launch of Bangladesh’s first satellite ‘Bangabandhu-1’. According to a statement released by the space center, the private space flight and technology company SpaceX set today (Thursday) as the launch date for ‘Bangabandhu-1’ at sometime between 4:12pm to 6:22pm local time….
UNB The hearing on a writ petition filed with the High Court seeking its directives to engage Bangladesh Army in conducting voting, counting votes and publishing results of the 11th parliamentary elections will be held after the polls billed for December 30. An HC bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Khairul Alam passed the…
Dr Rezwan Siddiqui speaks to DOT : The Awami League promising freedom of the press in its election manifesto is something worth being mocked. We who are doing journalism are sensing badly how devastating the freedom of the media has been during the current government’s tenure. An editor of a major media outlet in an…
Sakib Khondokar To, the girl who meant heavens to me. Just like last time I’ll quote something from my favorite writer Nicholas Sparks (yes, I admit he’s cheesy af), but it’ll be in the end so just keep on reading now. There’s nothing left of me to say to you really but it doesn’t feel…
Entertainment Desk Bestselling novel author J K Rowling has finally revealed the names of the stories that she has recently written for History of magic in north America. The first story is titled Fourteenth Century-Seventeenth Century. According to a report published in peoples.com, it has been said that the early days of the magical community…
AP, Kunduz The new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan apologized Tuesday to the people of Kunduz for the deadly attack on a hospital in the city last year that killed 42 people. U.S. Army Gen. John Nicholson traveled to the northern city to meet local leaders and relatives of those who died…
Arafat Hasan: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has conducted a raid at Hotel Sarina, owned by the BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, reported the daily New Age. A team led by the graft-body director, Kazi Shafiqul Alam, started the raid yesterday morning, which was still in progress when the New Age published the report. “We…