BSS: The government has nationalised 26,193 primary schools, 257 high schools and more than 333 colleges in different parts of the country to ensure quality education during the last ten years. “The government also nationalized services of 1.42 lakh primary teachers and established 1,500 new schools and 19 residential schools in three hilly districts during…
BBC: A Saudi teenager given asylum in Canada after fleeing her family has said the journey was “worth the risk” so she could live a more independent life. Rahaf Mohammed, 18, made headlines when she flew to Thailand and barricaded herself in a hotel while appealing on Twitter for help to avoid deportation. She said…
Reuters: More crimes against humanity were committed in Burundi in 2017 and 2018, whipped up by rhetoric from top officials including President Pierre Nkurunziza, a U.N. human rights report said on Wednesday. Burundi has tried and failed to stop the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council in…
Abrar Hussain of DOT The prime minister will sit with the political parties again for a dialogue at Gono Bhaban, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced yesterday. The parties will be invited to the Gono Bhaban through letters, Quader told media at the AL office on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka. They were previously invited…
Faisal Mahmud/Asia Times The Jatiya Party’s post-election about-turn to lead the parliamentary opposition against its ally the Awami League has stoked fresh controversy Bangladesh is experiencing the strange problem of finding a parliamentary opposition deemed to be suitable and acceptable, after the latest national elections were completed on December 30. Bangladesh is one of the…
Nusrat Jahan The activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP, which owns approximately 0.75 percent of Yahoo, is looking forward to nominate nine directors to Yahoo’s management board on Thursday morning. They plan to remove the entire board of the Internet corporation that is struggling to avoid losses, reported The Wall Street Journal. The board and…
Desk Report: CEMS Global Conference and Exhibition Management Services Ltd is going to present “19th Textech Bangladesh International Expo 2018” along with the “14th Dhaka International Yarn and Fabric Show 2018-Summer Edition” and “33rd Dye+Chem Bangla-desh 2018 International Expo” from September 12 to 15, 2018 at International Convention City Bashu-ndhara (ICCB) in Kuril in Dhaka,…
Bdnews24: Dhaka South Mayor Md Sayeed Khokon and Md Jamal Mostafa of Dhaka North mayoral panel came up with information on Eid cattle waste management and the claims at news briefings a day after the Eid on Thursday. Mayor Khokon had promised like the previous year that the animal waste in his areas would be…
Tech Explorist Pneumonia, a respiratory disease that kills about 50,000 people in the United States every year. Rapid detection of pneumonia is critical for effective treatment, especially in hospital-acquired cases which are often more severe. MIT scientists have now built up a nanoparticle-based innovation that could be utilized to enhance the speed of diagnosis. This…