Desk Report: Although there is a foot overbridge on Patuakhali-Kuakata road in Patuakhali Chowrasta area, people still cross the road directly without using the overbridge due to lack of awareness of traffic rules. Road accidents often occur in the area, but the people ignore the danger. Mayor Dr Shafiqul Islam took steps to build a…
Reported by: Riku Amir Written by: Eshan Maitra Secretaries at the Health Ministry are very irritated about the recent increase of ‘Transfer Lobbying’. Also for the fact that, it is turning into a bad culture. Including, nurse-doctors & employee-officers are always crowding the ministry office corridors. Health Minister Md. Nasim noticed that, such crowding is…
DOT Desk Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, in cooperation with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA), is organising a Jazz music concert by German band Tubes & Wires tomorrow evening at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the capital, reports the Independent. Niels Klein’s quartet Tubes & Wires, currently on a jazz tour in South Asia, present…
M Humayun Kabir: Bangladesh A 43-foot high portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was installed at TSC (Teacher- Student Center) of Dhaka University paying tribute to the nation’s founder on his 43rd death anniversary. Commerce Minister Tofael Ahmed on Tuesday inaugurated the largest ever portrait of Bangabandhu drawn by Bangladesh Charushilpi Sangsad, reports UNB. DU…
Hindustan Times, India: Some 3,000 pieces of military equipment including guns, swords and grenades believed to date back to World War II have been found buried at a Tokyo elementary school, officials said Monday. Construction workers found the weapons last month when they excavated the grounds of Tanashi Elementary School in the city of Nishitokyo…
Samiul Bashar Samin Some artists make it seem utterly courageous to follow their own muse. Neil Young makes it seem like there’s no other choice. For the last 45 years, Young has glanced at his options, shrugged for a moment, and lit off for the place that seemed right. Young has always kept his fans…
UNB Detective Branch of police arrested the ringleader of a robber gang along with a pistol and eight rounds of bullet from Mollar Char in Gaibandha Sadar upazila on Tuesday night. The arrestee was identified as Saidur Rahman. Officer-in-charge of Gaibandha DB police Shamim Hasan said the Saidur Rahman-led gang had long been carrying out…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age : Mohammad Ali Jinnah died a lonely man, sometime between his departure from Ziarat and arrival in Karachi on 11 September 1948. There is yet the old argument that had he lived, Pakistan would be a truly democratic, perhaps even secular country. Unfortunately, it is an argument which…
Sky News: The key ingredients were absent from a number of supermarket and branded vanilla ice creams. One in five of the vanilla ice creams examined by Which? contained none of the three ingredients consumers might reasonably expect to find in them. Just half of the 24 ice creams in the survey contained all three…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The severe Cyclonic storm called ‘Phethai’ over the west-central Bay and adjoining southwest Bay moved northwards and weakened, according to the Met office. A special bulletin of the Met office said it is likely to move further Northwards and may cross Andhra Pradesh coast of India by yesterday afternoon, reports UNB….