UNB: The muhurat (launching ceremony) of a film based on a novel penned by Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader was held at Dhaka Club. The shooting of the film based on novel ‘Gangchil’ will begin from next month. Its story is based on the life of people living in coastal belt of Cox’s…
Science Alert: No matter how abundant or renewable, solar power has a thorn in its side. There is still no cheap and efficient long-term storage for the energy that it generates. The solar industry has been snagged on this branch for a while, but in the past year alone, a series of four papers has…
BSS, Dhaka Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday urged the Deputy Commissioner of Cox’s Bazar to take necessary initiatives and measures for providing assistance to the salt farmers to help them produce more salts to meet the consumers’ demand in the country. “The Government is providing all necessary assistance to the salts farmers to ensure…
Desk Report: The embankment was built to protect a Kuthi Bari (bungalow) once owned by Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, on the bank of the Padma River. Part of the Kuthibari embankment in Kushtia, built with a cost of around Tk 200 crore, has collapsed mere two months after its construction. Bangladesh government built the…
Russia Today: Facebook has bought the rights to show Spanish top-flight football in the Indian subcontinent in the latest move by a US technology company into sports rights. The company has signed an exclusive agreement to show La Liga games featuring Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and other stars for the next three years. The deal will…
Christiana Figueres &Greta Thunberg/ The Washington Post Climate change is an existential threat to humanity and already a matter of life and death for many, but it is just one issue among many on the agenda at this year’s World Economic Forum. It should be the number one priority and should sit at the center…
Wion News: In an embarrassment to Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistani dictator, in a leaked video, was purportedly seen seeking covert US support to regain power and telling American lawmakers that he was “ashamed” of the ISI being negligent about the al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden’s whereabouts. The undated video clips, which have been…
Reported by: Arifur Rahman Tuhin Written by: Eshan Maitra In order to complete last moment, cash transactions, billings, employee payments, bonuses & import-export trading. The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) requested Bangladesh Bank and the authorities of Chittagong, Mongla & land-ports to keep their special divisions open from 23 June to…
BSS Like previous years, varieties of early winter vegetables have appeared abundantly in both retail and wholesale markets here making both the sellers and buyers happy.Farmers in the region including the vast Barind tract are successfully producing early varieties of winter vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, radish, carrot, beet, turnip, tomato, leafy spinach, red spinach and…
Syed Nasir Ershad Last week I said that the point of art is to refute whatever it is we have made up our minds about. Leo Tolstoy, the famous novelist with a tendency to radicalize, wrote a cautionary fable about a meretricious society woman who had an adulterous affair with a worthless cavalry officer and…