Desk Report: A total of 21 Bangladeshi companies, including apparel and leather units, will participate in a four-day fair in Paris beginning on September 17, reports Financial Express. The Leather World Paris will feature for the first time in the Texworld/Apparel Sourcing Paris this year. Three Bangladeshi leather goods makers would showcase their products in…
Desk Report: The prices of most of the stocks witnessed positive trend in early hour of trading on Sunday amid post-Eid optimism. Only one trading session is left before Eid-ul-Azha vacation, reports Financial Express. Following the previous last week’s upward movement, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened higher amid…
AFP: Israel closed its only crossing for people with the Gaza Strip on Sunday (Aug 19) except for humanitarian cases over border incidents that saw protests and clashes at the weekend, an Israeli official said. A spokeswoman for the Israeli defence ministry unit that oversees the passage confirmed that the Erez crossing had been closed….
Desk Report: Filming has begun on the sequel to It, the Stephen King adaptation directed by Andy Muschietti, with an all-new cast on board. Unfortunately, one of the actors – James McAvoy, who plays the adult version of Jaeden Lieberher’s Bill Denbrough – has already had some trouble on set. While battling Pennywise, McAvoy managed…
BBC: South Korea’s capital Seoul has seen its first ever deaf taxi drivers take to the road this week, thanks to new software that’s been launched to help reduce the local stigma of hiring hearing-impaired people, it’s reported. According to the Korean Times news website, two deaf taxi drivers began transporting passengers around the city…
Anjana Susarla, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University/WION news The Kremlin’s foreign policy increasingly seems to rest on the assumption that all countries are as corruptible as Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This was evident most recently in Russia’s alleged efforts to undermine an agreement between Greece and its tiny northern neighbor, the Republic of…
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…
UNB: Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said, Bangladesh is continuing its discussion with the United States to bring back one of the Bangabandhu’s killers, Rashed Chowdhury, from that country and the US remains positive to support Bangladesh legally. “We have a very good relationship with the US. We are discussing with them to bring…
UNB: BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Sunday said Awami League is now sensing the smell of a ‘1/11 like dangerous’ situation as the party was behind such a conspiracy in 2007. “It’s usual that you (AL) smell the emergence of 1/11 as you were behind it. You’d brought the 1/11 by creating anarchy…
facts.com: Many of the gender stereotypes that we know today had opposite origins. We bring you 10 such masculine things that are now considered feminine and vice-versa. Read on to find out more! 1. Cheerleading, once used to be a male sport, is now massively associated with females. 2. Pink used to be a color…