Desk Report: With the general banking hours ending yesterday ahead of the 5-day Eid vacation, commercial banks are witnessing huge rush of clients withdrawing cash to meet Eid-ul-Azha expenses, reports The Asian Age Over the last two working days, the banks in the metropolis have been packed with clients, especially for withdrawal of remittances. “Expatriates…
Ubergizmo: Remember all those fun personality quizzes that ran rampant during the earlier days of Facebook? They were fun to take and also great for discussion and comparisons with friends, but unfortunately some of them were less innocent than you think. Facebook’s privacy scandal with Cambridge Analytica proved just that, and now it looks like…
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…
Bdnews24: Half the cattle slaughtered throughout the year are sacrificed during the Eid-ul-Azha, making it a challenge for the Dhaka city corporations to clear the waste. The government designated 625 places in Dhaka South and 549 in North like previous years to contain environment pollution and make cleaning easier, but the citizens paid no heed….
Vandana/Daily O, India Gandhi’s style of speaking often feels like he is trying to explain things in the simplest possible terms to his audience, taking a leaf from how someone explained those things to him. Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s foreign tours are known to keep both social media users and journalists (many of whom are…
Desk Report:James Bond was a big deal in my household growing up. There were only two things my stepdad loved more than Sean Connery‘s 007: Sergio Leone Westerns and the San Francisco 49ers. As a result I saw the early Bonds quite a lot as a kid, but kind of skipped past George Lazenby and…
Desk Report: Haphazard dumping of wastes on busy roads has become a major source of public nuisance in the capital, with the authorities concerned remaining nonchalant. People in different city areas have alleged that the situation remained unchanged for years as the city corporations did nothing to address the crisis, reports The New Age. The…
AFP: Even an occasional glass of wine or beer increases the risk of health problems and dying, according to a major study on drinking in 195 nations that attributes 2.8 million premature deaths worldwide each year to booze. “There is no safe level of alcohol,” said Dr Max Griswold, a researcher at the Institute for…
IFL Science: You might think the perfect cup of coffee is an extremely subjective and personal thing, but you would be wrong. Scientists have been busy in the lab working out the proper way to stew your brew – and, yes, there is a right way to do it and it all has to do with…
BSS: Had father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman been alive and his development philosophy implemented, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) size would have reached US$421.58 billion before 2011 with a growth rate of 9 per cent or above, according to a study of Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA). BEA predicts that the per…