BSS Iran was expected to announce preliminary results Saturday from elections for parliament and a second poll to pick a powerful group of clerics who appoint the country’s supreme leader. Coming just a month after sanctions were lifted under Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, the outcome of Friday’s voting is being seen as a…
Sayeed Muhammad: Expressing frustration over poor luggage handling at the country’s premier airport, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal has suggested cutting jobs of aged and incapable employees of the national flag career. “There’re many aged employees (in Biman) who are not capable to deliver. You say bye to them with handsome compensation. You…
It’s the voters’ loss when presidential debates become a media circus. The candidate-moderator feud that is prevailing the current political moment can be eliminated by an alternative debate format. John Donvan, co-author of ‘In a Different Key. The Story of Autism’ has spoken about it. The Prevailing Mess: The public because of their being politicized…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday ensured of punishing those responsible for the accident that took the lives of two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and College. “This is completely unforgivable because the driver was driving the bus defying all the [traffic] rules, resulting in the loss of two lives…many students…
Tahmeed Taha: It was said by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday that a high-level delegation including ministers from 58 countries will visit Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar today.Bangladesh foreign ministry sources said in the visit, the ministers, state ministers, secretaries and high officials of 57member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)…
BDnews24: Bangladesh Bank has denied motorcycle ride-sharing app Pathao the permission to add payment service ‘Pathao Pay’.This means the users of the service will no more be allowed to recharge their virtual wallet.Those already having money in the wallet will get the services announced by Pathao earlier, according to its CEO and cofounder Hussain Elius….
AFP The US journal Science on Thursday coined as “Breakthrough of the Year” for 2018 new technologies that reveal how DNA cues individual cells to grow through time. Experts say these methods will transform science over the coming decades, allowing an ever-clearer picture of the processes behind aging, healing and disease. “Just as a music…
AFP : French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe is to announce on Tuesday a suspension of fuel tax increases planned for January 1 in a move to end violent “yellow vest” protests against the measure, government sources said Tuesday. The suspension will be accompanied by other measures aimed at calming two weeks of nationwide demonstrations by…
Desk Report: Ehsan Rafique, the Dhaka University student who was severely beaten by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men in February, has moved to Malaysia due to security concerns, reports Prothom Alo. He will now study at a private university in Malaysia, but the people who the university had suspended for beating Ehsan are still staying…
Abrar Ahmed of DOT : Atiqul Islam, Awami League’s aspirant for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral election, collected his nomination form to contest the race, reported The Daily Star. AKM Mizanur Rahman collected the nomination papers on behalf of Atiqul from Abul Kashem, returning officer of the Dhaka north city, yesterday afternoon. Atiqul, former president…