Shira Ovide/Bloomberg Internal emails show Facebook’s CEO is much different from the image he would like to portray. Lawmakers in the United Kingdom on Wednesday released a trove of Facebook Inc. documents that provide an intriguing glimpse inside the company — and obliterate any remaining notions of its chief executive officer as an innocent babe…
Tanvir Ahmed I have been working as a marketer for more than 12 years now, both in Bangladesh and in global marketing roles. In these years I have experienced a massive shift in terms of communications and the delivery vehicle for the message. Overall the industry is experiencing unprecedented changes. Television has always been a…
Hossen Sohel: The arbitrary arrest of internationally recognized photographer Shahidul Alam has sparked outrage and condemnation from the across the world. Internationally renowned academics including Noble Laureate Joseph Stiglitz condemned the detention of the noted photographer as an attack on rights in Bangladesh, reports The Guardian. The distinguished academics condemned the unjust treatment of the…
Abrar Hussain of DOT This year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations are scheduled to begin across the country today. A total of 2,135,333 students, which include 1,070,441 boys and 1,064,892 girls, are expected to appear at the examinations from 28,682 institutions in 3,497 centers. Among them, 1,700,102 candidates will sit for the SSC…
Samiul Bashar Samin For centuries, human hereditary improvement was a problem in social, not biological, engineering: how to persuade or coerce people into marrying to benefit the population as a whole. The obvious analogy was to agriculture and animal husbandry. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates says that only the best citizens would be allowed to mate,…
Tariqul Islam President Md. Abdul Hamid left for the extraordinary leaders’ summit of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over the issue of Jerusalem, on Monday night. It will be held at Istanbul, the capital of Turkey. He will also meet with the foreign-affairs minister & top-delegates of each member nations in separate meetings. State Minister…
Ahmed Raju Flyovers might become a burden after 20 years or so. Because of their poor long-term planning. Even, none of these compact flyovers can be extended or reformed in the future. While most development projects in the urban cities are taken, with the aim to service or evolve over centuries. Such, development projects in…
Banglanews24: A man and his son died after being electrocuted in Falahari village under Kabirhat upazila. The deceased are Salauddin, 48, son of Ali Ahmed, residents of Padua village and his son Sourav Hossain, 12, class VII student of a local high school.Locals said the duo came in contact with a live electric wire when…
UNB: A five-member team of adolescent girls and boys will take part in the international robotics competition titled ‘First Global Challenge’ to be held in Mexico City, capital of Mexico from August 15 to 18. The team will leave here on Sunday to join the event where adolescents from 182 countries are going to participate….
Sky News For a brief period earlier this year, the “distracted boyfriend” meme – using a stock image of a man angering his partner by ogling another girl – was inescapable. But its broad appeal does not appear to extend to Swedish regulators. After it emerged, social media posters used the meme to communicate…