If you have ever been in a controlling relationship, you know how easy it is to get caught in its web. It usually starts out with a simple suggestion like, “I think you’re better off ordering a salad.” At first you take the suggestions as a reflection of love and concern. After all, the comments…
Gulf News: Fears that embankments could burst under fresh rains mounted in flooded southeastern Myanmar, where some 150,000 people have been forced from their homes and a dozen people killed.A vast area of farmland across four provinces lies under muddy water with rescue teams trying to reach villages by boat to provide food to those…
Redwan Ahmed The High Court (HC) on Monday has issued a rule upon the government to explain why the stage, where Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivered his historic March 7 speech won’t be reconstructed.The High court in the same rule also questioned why a statue of the father of the nation will not be constructed…
Humayun Kabir: Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday said it has found massive corruption by customs house and port authorities of Mongla port as well as cases of extortion and corruption at Burimari land port. The employees of Customs House at the Mongla port were involved with corruption worth Tk 15.69 crore in 2016-17 fiscal, said the…
The Guardian: The search for a gifted gardener cheated of a scholarship with the Royal Horticultural Society in 1898 because she was female was under way this weekend – just one of a number of efforts to rescue notable women from the footnotes of history. The greenfingered “Miss Harrison” won a chance to train at…
Gutenberg’s Press: What makes a book, a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information or does it have to do with paper, binding, font, ink, its smell of the pages? Is this a book? To answer these questions we need to go back of the book as we know it and understand…
UNB China’s premier told visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Monday his government is pressing ahead with painful reforms to shrink bloated coal and steel industries that are a drag on its slowing economy and ruled out devaluing its currency as a short-cut to boosting exports. Premier Li Keqiang’s comments to Lew on Monday…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Jatiya Oikyafront, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, wants to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on December 10 ahead of the 11th parliamentary elections, reports UNB. On behalf of the Oikyafront, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the plan at a press conference at the…
Kabir Humayun: The government has appointed new deputy commissioners in ten districts. The public administration ministry yesterday issued a gazette notification in this regard, reports Prothom Alo. Public administration ministry deputy secretary (DS) Kabir Mahmud has been appointed DC of Barguna, secondary and higher secondary division DS Abu Ali Md Sajjad Hossain to Pirojpur, foreign…
UNB A furniture shop was gutted by fire which broke out at Dhalagaon Bazar in Sadar upazila on Friday night. Mantu Biswas, warehouse inspector of Munshiganj fire service, said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at the furniture shop around 10 pm and spread soon.