Desk Report: Electricity coverage through Solar Mini Grid Project in hard-to-reach river islands (chars) have been improving the lives of char people as well as fuelling the local economy, reports Financial Express. The state-run Infrastructure Development Company Ltd has been implementing such SMGPs through its partner organisations in remote char areas across the country. The…
Cassandra Cross/The Conversation, Australia It is easy for those of us who have ignored emails from Nigerian princes or refused to transfer money on behalf of an online love interest to scroll past stories about scams, thinking it could never be us. But so far this year, Australians have reported losing more than AU$76 million…
Desk Report: The directors’ association in Dhallywood created another stumbling block for Jaaz Multimedia’s new venture ‘Beporowa’, scheduled to be released this Eid. They claimed the guidelines set by Bangladesh government for joint-venture films had not been followed, reports Prothom Alo. The production house has to import the film to release it in Bangladesh, the…
AFP: Brazil will send troops to its border with Venezuela on Monday after residents of the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima drove out Venezuelan immigrants from their improvised camps, amid growing regional tensions. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have crossed the border into Brazil over the past three years as they seek to escape the…
AFP: Robots that can diagnose diseases, play badminton and wow audiences with their musical skills are among the machines China hopes could revolutionize its economy, with visitors to a Beijing exhibition offered a glimpse of an automated future. The popular stars of this year’s World Robot Conference, which ended yesterday, were undoubtedly the small, amateur-made…
Desk Report: The central bank has asked commercial banks to ensure round-the-clock operations of alternative delivery channels (ADCs) during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha holidays in order to facilitate smooth transactions, reports the financial express. The ADCs include ATM (automated teller machine), POS (point of sale), e-payment gateway and mobile financial services (MFS) through which a customer…
A.S.M Riad Arif, SARRC Silver Jubilee Scholar, South Asian University, New Delhi : According to the recent Global index by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Dhaka is now the 2nd least Liveable city of the world. And this again gives us an opportunity to Laugh louder and blame against the system, Government Event it makes possible to…
M Humayun Kabir: A total of 37 students involved with the recent student protest and quota reform movement have been given bail amid widespread call for their unconditional release. Among them, 14 were among the 22 private university students arrested in the follow through of the recent student protest for safe roads in the first…
Independent.UK: Think you can spot the telltale signs of a cheat? Perhaps someone who settled down too soon before playing the field, or a cold, calculated type who’s adept at covering their tracks? Well, you’d be wrong. It’s actually people who have had higher numbers of sexual partners, or have impulsive tendencies, who are more…
Muhammad Ali Bukhari from Toronto: The news of Kofi Annan’s death reached to me as a great shock through our Toronto’s 24 hours TV news channel and accordingly I made two posts in my Twitter and Facebook accounts: ‘The first ever African Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize…