Sejuti Mourin The regular columnist and correspondent of the Daily Our Time and Dainik Amader Orthoneeti in Canada, Muhammad Ali Bukhari has been bestowed the Honoris Causa with a medal in Journalism by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration of the Province of Ontario, Laura Albanese in an annual get together dinner event of the…
Michael Schuman/The Atlantic One of Beijing’s top goals is transforming China into a technology powerhouse, so what happens to Huawei matters beyond China’s own borders. As Ken Hu, the “rotating” chairman at Huawei Technologies, made the case during a briefing in southern China that his company’s telecom equipment was trustworthy and above board, he did…
Desk Report: Farmers in Gaibandha could not plant Aman seedlings due to scanty rain in July while farmers in Lalmonirhat are not preparing their lands for Aman cultivation for lack of rain. The rain was too scanty to wet the fields last week, so farmers were unable to transplant Aman seedlings in Gaibandha. Sundarganj Upazila…
DOT Desk: Increasing export of paper and tissue has created a window for local mills to utilise their huge unused capacity and bring home foreign currency, Reports The Daily Star. Bangladesh’s 110 paper mills, with a capacity of producing more than 15 lakh tonnes of paper and paper products annually, can use less than half…
DOT Desk: Chattogram district police have opened ‘expatriate help desk’ to provide legal assistance to the expatriates staying in different countries, reports The Daily Sun. Chattogram Superintendent of Police (SP) Noor-E-Alam Mina inaugurated the activities through cutting cake at Civic Centre of Chattogram District Police Lines in the afternoon. Officials said the expatriates will be…
Tech Explorist Since decades, scientists are trying to discover- How do hair follicles grow from a sea of seemingly uniform skin cells during embryonic development? Now, Yale scientists have finally found the answer. They examined the molecular and cellular events that occur prior to visible evidence of hair follicle formation. For this, they combined the…
Sky News: In a swish research centre on the edge of a Swiss lake, the world’s biggest cigarette company is re-inventing itself. Philip Morris International – which makes Marlboro and several other leading brands – has vowed to phase out cigarettes and move into smoke-free products instead. And the complex of laboratories is a signal…
Sky News It has been a big week for Harold McDowell, of Lakewood, New Jersey, and not because of Christmas. On Friday, doctors confirmed that his wife was cancer free, after multiple surgeries for liver cancer and hospital stays for colon cancer. Then on Saturday afternoon he won $1m (£790,000) at a casino in Atlantic…
Samiul Bashar Samin There are few things in this world that can put my heart to ease and ironically, a good old horror TV show is sometimes all I need to break away from the horrors in real life: like meeting deadlines or dropping my oreo in milk. I have to admit, I joined the…
Desk Report: Popular actress Popi broke her silence with a new film ‘Cut Piece’. After a year of hiatus, she is making her return with Bulbul Biswas’s movie. The poster of the film has already been released which sparks wave of imaginations and expectation centering the cinema, reports The Daily Asian Age. The director of…