BSS The national flag will be hoisted atop all government, semi-government, autonomous, private buildings as well as diplomatic missions abroad as part of the Victory Day celebration programme on December 16. According to the Bangladesh Constitution, the national flag shall consist of a circle, coloured red throughout its area, resting on a green background, said…
Marylin Thipthorpe Eastern University organized and celebrated an open student event for Women’s Day. The Complaint Committee for Sexual Harassment worked hand in hand with all the department to put the event forward. The #PledgeforParity theme, was followed through and through, with speeches and personals opinions given on various topics, such as He for She,…
Myisha Nawar Last weekend, I had the opportunity to talk with an exceptional achiever. This person has excelled to levels of achievement that makes him stand out. But that isn’t what makes this person truly exceptional. What makes him truly exceptional is his achievement combined with his tremendous character and integrity. This got me thinking….
Tips and tricks: It might not be the most newsworthy thing, but we love knowing what other people’s daily menus look like. Whether it’s our colleagues, friends or of someone we don’t even know: we love to know what they eat. Especially fascinating is celebrities’ daily menus. Everybody eats, but what do these people who…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Minister Tajul Islam has said the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority have been swamped with irregularities and that will not be allowed to go on. “Dhaka and Chittagong Wasa have gone through extreme negligence and mismanagement,” he said. The minister was addressing a meeting…
Reuters: At 1 am on April 23, Yue Xin was rudely awakened in her dormitory at China’s prestigious Peking University by her mother and a faculty adviser. Yue, emboldened by the global #MeToo movement, had gained prominence across China for demanding that her university release information about a decades-old rape and suicide case. She should…
Saeed Naqvi, Senior Indian journalist, television commentator, interviewer, and distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi /The New Age ‘PROBLEMS’ like Afghanistan, even Iran, created in the thick of the Cold War, are now in the lap of a declining sole super power in a withdrawal mode. Since I was a witness to…
Nobonita Chowdhury In case you’re not aware, Fitzgerald is the one who wrote The Great Gatsby, eons before Leonardo Dicaprio turned it into a soap opera. If you just want to read a Fitzgerald novel and get things over with, then this article is not for you. However, if you’d like to have a deeper…
Science Alert: The world’s caves are easily forgotten. Missing from most maps and hidden from the surface, these underground kingdoms are often cloaked by darkness and shrouded in mystery. It’s the sort of thing that makes headlines around the world, and in 2018, we were fortunate enough to discover several incredible new caverns. But that…
Tanzim Taqrim Arnob BSCIC industrial city of Bogra, plagued by various problems. 80 percent of the country’s agricultural machinery is manufactured there. Uninterrupted power and gas facilities are not being modernized due to the factories can not be upgraded. Apart from this, the street owners, who are notorious for the drainage system, the industrial city…