Dishika Zaman School is like our second home. We grow up learning things, socialize with people we never knew in our life before. Soon they become the persons we value the most. They become our partners in everything –from sharing food to doing almost all kinds of mischiefs. They know us well just as we…
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EC unaware of attack on Dr Kamal
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed has claimed that the Commission was not reported the attack on Dr Kamal Hossain’s motorcade, reports The Daily Star. “We are uninformed of the incident since no one lodged a written complaint in this regard,” he told reporters at Agargaon yesterday. According to him, there…
JP to join AL-led Grand Alliance
Abrar Hussain of DOT Jatiya Party announced yesterday to join the government of Awami League-led Grand Alliance. The party’s Co-Chairman GM Quader made the announcement after a parliamentary meeting of the party at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. “Since we participated in the election under the banner of Awami League, we want to join the government,” he…
Four ‘ABT members’ held in city
UNB: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from different parts of the city. Tipped off, a team of Rab-1 conducted drive in different parts of the city and arrested them, said Assistant director of Rab-1 senior ASP Mizanur Rahman. The arrestees were involved in…
British PM ‘irritated’ by leadership speculation
AFP: British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday she was “irritated” by speculation about a leadership contest as she slammed former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, seen as her most likely challenger. The centre-right Conservative Party’s leader said she was focused on securing a Brexit deal rather than her own future, in a BBC television interview marking…
Myths Behind Earth’s Water
Eshan Maitra What is first thing that we look for when we return home from work, sport or school? Water! It is a name of comfort and satisfaction. Especially in such hot weather! We all wrote an essay on Water once in our life in school; with the headline saying ‘Water is Life’. Basically it…
Nat’l unity to turn political unity, says Mosharraf
Kabir Humayun: The current efforts of different political parties to forge a national unity for holding a fair election will soon turn into a political unity, BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said. “Country’s people, BNP-led 20-party alliance, Jukta Front under the leadership of Badruddoza Chowdhury and Dr Kamal Hossain and the left-leaning parties’…
English: The weird cousin of languages
Samiul Bashar Samin English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there is no such thing as a ‘spelling bee’ competition. For a normal language,…
Sigh for a healthy life
Md Taqi Yasir Our lungs control the exhalation and inhalation of the body for our lifeline. Lungs perform the major part of respiration in our body and the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide through the blood is the result of this. It is found from the research of a biochemist team of University of…
High season for blacksmiths
Desk Report: For blacksmiths, Eid-ul-Azha is an occasion full of activities and opportunity. This is the time they earn the largest share of the annual income, reports Daily Star. The situation is no different in Sylhet. During visits to the smithies, it was found that all of them were busy forging machetes, cleavers, and knives…