Abrar Hussain: Mala-ysian police are currently seeking two Indonesian women they want to testify at the trial of those accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. Local media named the potential witnesses as Raisa Rinda Salma, 24, and Dessy Meyrisinta, 33. Kim Jong-nam died at Kuala Lumpur airport in…
Abrar Hussain: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has assured that the next parliamentary election will be held in time amid festive mood, alleging that those who failed to depoliticize the country during 1/11 are the ones who are saying that elections would not be held. Quader, also the General Secretary of ruling Awami…
BSS: President M Abdul Hamid yesterday urged followers of all religions faiths to remain alert against attempts by vested quarters or militants to create social disorders using religion as he hosted a reception for Hindu community leaders at Bangabhaban here. “Religion leads people to the path of truth and rightness, inspires people for human welfare…
A.S.M Riad Arif , Graduated from South Asian University, New Delhi: Over the last few decades, the divorce rate of Bangladesh is getting higher and now it’s an alarming situation particularly at urban middle class family. A Dhaka based Top Bengali Newspaper Prothom Alo recently reports that, ‘One divorce per hour in Dhaka’. The reports…
Reuters: China culled more than 38,000 hogs as of Sept. 1 due to African swine fever outbreaks, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday. China, where pork is a staple meat, has reported five swine fever cases in five different provinces in a month, prompting authorities to cull hogs to contain the outbreak. Epidemic culling and…
BSS: President M Abdul Hamid yesterday urged followers of all religions faiths to remain alert against attempts by vested quarters or militants to create social disorders using religion as he hosted a reception for Hindu community leaders at Bangabhaban here. “Religion leads people to the path of truth and rightness, inspires people for human welfare…
New Age: The government revenue from incoming international calls will remain stagnant for three more years as the telecom regulatory body moves to keep its share unchanged at 40 per cent under pressure from politically-backed international gateway operators. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission at a recently held meeting decided to get approval of its initiative from…
M Humayun Kabir: Despite the extremely hot weather on a weekend in early August, a good number of tourists gathered around a murky pond in a park in Fukusaki in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture of Japan. The visitors were intently watching the surface of the water, which soon began to bubble and then three red kappa…
Product Reviews: Apple’s iPhone event will officially take place on September 12 and now it looks like we have our first genuine photo of the new OLED models, as well as the name which Apple have chosen for the devices. It was speculated that Apple were having an internal dilemma on the naming of the…
Desk Report: Japan’s space agency will attempt to land a robotic unmanned landing craft on the surface of an asteroid 300 million-kilometers (186.4 million-miles) away from Earth next month. The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is currently orbiting around the diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu, which it reached in June after a three-and-a-half year journey.On September 21, the spacecraft will deploy…