David A. Andelman/Reuters Nicole Barthelemy, the quiet, gracious owner of one of Paris’s premier cheese shops on the Rue de Grenelle, told me this week, with real panic in her eyes, “I have never in 47 years been so afraid as I am today.” And with good reason. Only a few blocks away, on the…
DOT Desk Members of Border Guard Bangladesh recovered firearms and gunpowder from Masudpur border in Shibganj upazila on Tuesday night, reports UNB.Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB conducted a drive in Tarapur field around 10:15 pm and challenged three people while they were trying to intrude Bangladesh from Indian border. , said…
DOT Desk The share price of Northern Jute Manufacturing Company Limited is soaring without having any undisclosed price sensitive information, reports The Financial Express. Within seven consecutive trading sessions, the company’s share price jumped more than 45 per cent or Tk 363 each to reach at Tk 1165.20 on Tuesday. Its share price was Tk…
The Straits Times Turkish woman Tulay Gercek stands in front of a vending machine at a busy Istanbul metro station but instead of putting coins into a slot, she crams plastic bottles into a hole. Every bottle or can Gercek places in the machine gives extra credit on her Istanbul card – the universal ticket…
Reuters: Turkey needs Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries and will procure them as soon as possible, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. The United States has expressed concern that NATO ally Turkey’s planned deployment of the S-400s could risk the security of some U.S.-made weapons and other technology used by Turkey, including the F-35 jet….
M Humayun Kabir: The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, has expressed grave concern over recent attacks on working journalists and the detention of noted photojournalist Shahidul Alam. In a letter, IPI urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to take robust steps to prevent violence against journalists, according…
Bill Emmott, Independent writer, lecturer and consultant on international affairs/The Mainichi, Japan In their final term in office, elected national leaders usually focus mostly on their legacy, on what they can do to make sure future historians write positively about their influence on their country and, in some cases, the world. Sometimes, of course, they…
Raj Ahmed of DOT Bangladeshi voters trying to find their respective polling centers can do so easily thanks to an online platform introduced by the Election Commission (EC). The Daily Star reported that a voter merely needs to login to https://services.nidw.gov.bd/voter_center using their National ID card number or Voter Form Number, date of birth, and…
AFP: with their advanced driver assistance systems and heads-up displays, which beam information in front of the windscreen – might seem positively futuristic. But according to Michael Todd, global head of innovation at Henkel Adhesive Technologies, the car industry is on the cusp of even bigger changes Here are some of the features your future…
UNB: Four people were killed in separate road crashes in Chapainawabganj and Chattogram districts on Tuesday. In Chapainawabganj, two motorcyclists, Mizanur Rahman, son of Jalal Uddin, and Moshiur Rahman, son of Salauddin, of Kolail Diyar area of Gomostapur upazila, were killed when a truck rammed their vehicle in Kolyanpur area of the district town at…