Sayeed Muhammad: A Dhaka court has scheduled October 25 for a hearing over the charge-sheet of the Barapukuria Coalmine graft case filed against BNP Chief Khaleda Zia and none others. Judge AHM Ruhul Imran of the Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka set up in Bakshibazar area of Dhaka city passed the order yesterday. Lawyers of…
Science Alert Everybody has their own weird, idiosyncratic habits that probably don’t make sense to anybody else, but one Chinese man’s tendency for personal daily weirdness turned out to be a serious danger to his health. The man in question, a 37-year-old named Peng in reports, had apparently developed a strange custom of sniffing his…
Riku Amir The rate of breast feeding babies between the ages of 0 to 6 months has lessened by 9% in the last 4 years in Bangladesh. The rate was 64% in 2011, when a research was last conducted on this subject. The rate of feeding powder milk to these babies is increasing dangerously. These…
Entertainment Desk: Emma Stone and Jonah Hill Will Star in a TV Series Called ‘Maniac’ It’s certainly the golden age of television and big-name stars are more than willing to make the move to the small screen. And it looks like Emma Stone and Jonah Hill are next in line. The film vets are currently…
BSS Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu today came down heavily on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for its growing “no confidence” attitude towards the results of the elections in which the party was defeated. “The BNP did not accept the results of the elections in which the party was defeated … it also expressed “no…
Reuters Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that the U.S. military presence in Syria had been “illogical and a source of tension”, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported. President Donald Trump has begun what will be a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, declaring on Wednesday they have succeeded in their mission to defeat…
Zakaria Swapan, Technologist: It is great to have Bangabandhu I satellite. It also feels good. And there is no reason for feeling bad in this regard. Like the rest of the countrymen, I also feel proud over matter of the satellite being sent into the space. Though we did not manufacture it, Bangladesh owns Bangabandhu…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed writes for DOT : Disaster management is concerned with preparing for impact and reducing the risk of disasters. It involves both emergency operations in a disaster as well as the rebuilding society in the aftermath (Tan, 2009). However, analyzing the concept of disaster, it is discovered that managing disaster is concerned…
BSS: Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, MP, hope that all political parties will participate in the upcoming national polls. He called upon to the intending Awami League (AL) candidates to start their campaign in respective constituency for the national polls. He expects that all political parties including the BNP would participate in…