Reported by: Moshumi Roy Written by: Eshan Maitra Expatriate Welfare Bank (EWB) assures to loan 1-2 lacs taka on 2 years term (1 year for Singapore only), to anyone possessing a legal visa to go abroad for work. Any labor & employed person to a foreign company can apply with their attached copies of, 3…
M Humayun Kabir: The Prime Minister’s Office has instructed RAJUK to take action against multi-storey buildings and shopping malls for violating parking rules. The instruction came from a ‘high-level’ meeting on road safety, led by Md Nojibur Rahman, the principal secretary to the prime minister, according to a statement issued on the agency’s Facebook page…
Claire Cain Miller/New York Times We’re now more likely to tell our daughters they can be anything they want to be — an astronaut and a mother, a tomboy and a girlie girl. But we don’t do the same for our sons.Even as we’ve given girls more choices for the roles they play, boys’ worlds…
Syed Ripon he government is putting immense focus on revolutionizing the power-sector & ensuring 100% electricity distribution throughout Bangladesh. As part of it, Kawran Bazar Underground Power Sub-Center plan has been initiated by the government. Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited aims to complete this 1,003 crores taka project by 2023. Japan National Cooperation Agency promised…
John P. Carlin,Chair of the Aspen Institute’s Cyber & Technology Program/The Atlantic Convincing Putin that further attacks will trigger automatic, severe responses is the best path to deterrence. A series of explosive Department of Justice filings—outside the special counsel’s probe—makes clear that Russia is a rogue state in cyberspace. Now the United States needs a…
Product Reviews: Apple’s iPhone event will officially take place on September 12 and now it looks like we have our first genuine photo of the new OLED models, as well as the name which Apple have chosen for the devices. It was speculated that Apple were having an internal dilemma on the naming of the…
Rahat Chowdhury: The government has backtracked from their initial plan to impose 5% VAT on online shopping. According to the National Board of Revenue, the VAT on online shopping as announced in the new budget was a “printing error”. “It was printed mistakenly. We dropped the decision,” said Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, chairman of the NBR,…
Arab News: Facebook has removed a feature that allowed users to translate Burmese posts and comments after a Reuters report showed the tool was producing bizarre results. A Reuters investigation published on August 15 documented how Facebook was failing in its efforts to combat vitriolic Burmese language posts about Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims. Some 700,000 Rohingya…
UNB: The general inflation rate slightly came down to 5.35 percent in December last from 5.37 percent in the previous month (Nov) thanks to the slight fall in both food and non-food inflations. “The general point-to-point inflation rate slightly eased to 5.35 percentage point in December last,” said Planning Minister MA Mannan on Tuesday releasing…
Reported by: Kamol Sarker Written by: Eshan Maitra Anti-Corruption Commission (Dudok) will be taking judiciary actions against the corrupted members of Local Project Implementation Committee (PIC). They have started investigation on 239 PIC members for irregularities in the Haor Damn Crops Protection & renovation projects in 2015-16 fiscal years. Dudok Assistant Director…