Channel News Asia Twenty one prisoners, most of them members of Islamic State jailed on terrorism charges, broke out of a prison in northern Iraq but 15 of them have been recaptured, Kurdish security officials said on Thursday. The fortified jail of Sosa is located near the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya and include mainly…
Tech Explrist: The Earth sheds more heat into space as its surface heat up. In 1950, scientists observed a straightforward clear, linear connection between the Earth’s surface temperature and its active heat. As the earth is extremely messy system, with many complicated, interacting parts that can affect this process, it is difficult for scientists to explain…
Desk Report The board of directors of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) has recommended 5.0 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2018, said an official disclosure on Sunday. The final approval of dividend will come during the annual general meeting (AGM) scheduled to be held on November 08 at…
UNB Police arrested an alleged terrorist along with one pipe-gun and two rounds of bullets from the Nagorghop High School premises in Manirampur upazila of Jessore on Sunday night. Sub-inspector of Manirampur Police Station Jahangir Alam said tipped off, a team of police conducted a drive in the area and arrested Sher Ali when he…
Chanakya /Hindustan Times Between December and April-May, the BJP will try to find and highlight national issues, even as the Congress and other opposition parties focus on state-specific ones. It promises to be interesting. Exit polls for five states that came out on Friday paint an interesting, if muddled, picture. The big picture from the…
Reuters: Regulators overseeing Islamic banking must revise guidance on real estate exposures to align with the post-financial crisis capital rules of Basel III, a global industry body said on Sunday. The Bahrain-based General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions (CIBAFI) said treatment of real estate across Islamic finance jurisdictions still reflected Basel II or…
UNB, Dhaka Shougat Nazbin Khan, a young education advocate from Bangladesh, has received the Commonwealth Youth Awards for excellence in development work. She was one of four outstanding young people aged under 30 recognised in the 2016 Commonwealth Youth Awards and named as Commonwealth Young Person of the Year for Asia, Shougat Nazbin told…
Rahat Islam of DOT Expressing its gratitude to all those who voted for it, the ruling Awami League said the frequency of violence is significantly lesser than the elections of the past. AL leader Abdur Rahman was speaking at a press briefing at the party president’s Dhanmondi office in Dhaka yesterday after voting in the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the countrymen to re-elect the Awami League to keep up the country’s development spree and serve the people again, reports The Daily Star. “We’ve already executed many projects in the country while many mega schemes are under implementation. So, I call…
Prof Nazrul Islam, Urban Planner, Former Chairman of UGC: The public transport sector is now in utter disarray. The transport service providers do not care a hoot for the rules and regulations. The policy makers of the government often say that they are gravely concerned over the sector but in reality, it is not so….