A truck helper was crushed under the wheels of a speeding truck at Baishpukur in Dimla upazila on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as Belal Hossain, 35, son of Makbul Hossain, a resident of Baishpukur village. Quoting witnesses, Officer-in-charge of Dimla Police Station Abdul Hannan said Belal was crossing a road around 2:30pm. At…
BSS Two passengers were killed and 7 others injured when a Moua-bound bus from Dhaka plunged into road side ditch at KC road in Munshiganj on Wednesday noon. Driver of the bus VIP-Apon Paribahan lost his control and the bus plunged into road side ditch and made the accident. Victims are identified as Shimanta Mallik…
AFP Morocco will not be a candidate to host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations after Cameroon was stripped of the tournament, the country’s sports minister Rachid Talbi Alami said on Wednesday, while Egypt expressed an interest in hosting the finals. “Morocco does not intend to run for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations and…
Sayeed Muhammad: Newly-appointed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to travel to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel over the weekend after a stopover in Brussels for a NATO meeting, according to the State Department.”No other secretary in recent history has gone on a trip as quickly as he has,” department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters…
India Today: India has nearly one billion phone users and yet there is a wide gap between the ownership of mobiles in the country. According to a report by a Sri Lanka-based think tank LIRNEasia, the gap between rural and urban mobile ownership in India is as high as 22 per cent. This parity between…
Abrar Hussain: Details of the most harrowing period of Vincent van Gogh’s life, including his mental collapses when he tried to poison himself with his own paint, have been revealed in a new book. Author and journalist Martin Bailey, an expert of Van Gogh’s life, traced the admissions register and other records from Saint-Paul de…
Desk Report: The government is going to cut withholding tax and corporate tax for garment exporters in what can be viewed as yet another pullback by the revenue authority from its intent to collect higher tax from the sector, reports Daily Star. Last fiscal year, the sector earned $30.61 billion, which is 83.5 percent of…
UNB/ AP, Piraeus Clutching an English phrase book, Mohammed Sawadi is preparing to head north. The 23-year-old university student traveled from Damascus with his two cousins. They knew Greece’s borders were closed before leaving home but say nothing will stop them getting to northern Europe. “We made a vow: We will get to Europe, and…
Desk Report: Farmers in three upazilas are uncertain about cultivation of Aman paddy as three embankments in those upazilas have collapsed due to tidal surge and erosion, allowing the water to submerge the fields, reports Daily Star. The areas are Bashbaria village under Dashmina upazila, Dhulia under Baufal upazila and Piprakhali under Mirzaganj upazila. In…
By Sheersho Zaman The life of a typical student can be pretty one-dimensional sometimes, especially in Bangladesh. It is an extremely monotonous routine riddled with classes, exams, even more classes, homework, so on and so forth. Very few people actually take time to do anything else with whatever little free time they have left, usually…