Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, Professor and Founder Chair, Dept. of Television, Film and Photography, University of Dhaka The newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, a popular sports star turned politician, in his inaugural speech exhorted for peace in South Asia. Can he be a harbinger of peace? Peace and stability…
Abrar Hussain Tri-pura’s newly elected Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday and sought Bangladesh’s cooperation for Tripura’s development. Biplab Kumar made the phone call before he took oath as the first BJP Chief Minister in the Indian North East state, according to PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim. In response, Prime Minister…
Abid Sarker Shohag It took Bangladesh quite a long time to understand the format. But it seems Bangladesh has now unlocked the secret to cricket. They played a successful Asia Cup where they finished as runners-up. Now the question is can Tigers win their first major ICC tournament? I will give you a few reasons…
DOT Desk Doctors at a programme on Saturday said that total knee replacement by specialists is now possible on low cost in Bangladesh, reports The Daily Sun. They claimed that such surgery was carried out in BRB hospital in the capital recently. They came up with the statements at a press briefing at the conference…
Kabir Humayun: After releasing the final results of the Senior Staff Nurse Appointment Examinations, the Public Service Commission (PSC) has recommended the appointment of 5,100 candidates. In a statement issued on yesterday, the commission said the candidates have been appointed to the tenth grade based on merit and existing quotas, reports bdnews24.com. The recommendations of…
Desk report: Police recovered the bodies of two students from BSCIC Industrial area in Nazira village of Sadar upazila in Kurigram on Wednesday, reports UNB reports. The deceased were identified as Selina Akter, 12, a class VIII student of Amin Uddin Dakhil Madrasa and daughter of Jabed Ali of Dakuapara village and Jahangir Alam, 14,…
UNB: Three people died and another person fell sick after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank of an under-construction building in Bank Colony area of Nasrsingdi municipality yesterday.
Desk Report: A campus-based journalist of Chittagong University was beaten up by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men as he protested an incident of ragging. Victim Minhaj Tuhin, the CU correspondent of Alokito Bangladesh, also a third-year student of Arabic, took primary treatment at the university medical centre. Minhaj said five to six BCL activists, led…
Eshan Maitra New study suggests that we are not the single civilization in this whole wide universe. After all, there are ten-billion-trillion inhabitable planets existing right at the point of telescope vision by the Drake’s equation (introduced in 1961). Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan from the Universities of Rochester and Washington just published their writing…
AFP For the first time 12 nations will head into Sunday’s qualifying draw (1100GMT) for Euro 2020 with the extra incentive of playing on home soil should they make it to the 24-team tournament in two years time. Amsterdam, Baku, Bilbao, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Glasgow, London, Munich, Rome and Saint Petersburg are the 12…