Afsan Chowdhury speaks to DOT : Whichever party comes to power, the bureaucrats are not punished. Pro-BNP bureaucrats are not punished during AL regime. By the same token, pro-AL bureaucrats are not punished during BNP regime. They may not get promotion but they are not punished. However, the politicians are changing ever. The people of…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : A Dhaka court has deferred the verdict in the anti-terrorism case against six Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders including its Chief Coordinator Mohiuddin Ahmed for the sixth time. Though the verdict was to be announced on Sunday, Anti-Terror Tribunal Judge Mujibur Rahman announced that the court was not ready to deliver it…
Kabir Humayun: Mitsu-bishi Corporation will purchase a one-fourth stake in Summit LNG Terminal, a unit of Summit Power International. “Mitsubishi Corporation has agreed to acquire a 25 percent interest in Summit LNG Terminal Co to develop a liquefied natural gas receiving terminal that uses a floating storage and regasification unit or FSRU in Bangladesh,” it…
Sabah Mannan: BSF Dir-ector General (DG) KK Sharma claimed Thursday that there was no report of killing any Bangladeshi nationals by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the borders since January this year. At a briefing on the fourth day of the BSF and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) director general-level meeting, the BSF DG remarked…
John Mcwhorter, teaches linguistics at Columbia University/The Atlantic They suggest not just inadequate manners or polish, but inadequate thought. The president of the United States has many faults, but let’s not ignore this one: He cannot write sentences. If a tree falls in a forrest and no one is there to hear it … wait:…
Sky News The Metropolitan Police is to test live facial recognition in Westminster as part of an ongoing trial of the controversial technology. A deployment of the surveillance software will take place on Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 December in and around Soho, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square. It will be used “overtly” with a…
Eshan Maitra Inspired by Michael Trimble’s book “The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language” and many other theorists, Edwin Evans-Thirlwell took a great task in publishing, “Humanity’s Long Search for the Soul in the Brain in the “Jacked In” series. This is a good read that piled in the history of…
Kabir Humayun: Farmers Bank’s six officials were questioned over “a suspicious transaction involving Tk 4 crore in the account of former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha”. ACC’s Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told The Daily Star that the ACC uizzed the six officials, including the bank’s former managing director SKM Shamim, at its Shegunbagicha…
Masud Alam The Mobile Court of Rapid Action Battalion-2 arrested 24 touts who were roaming around the Agargaon Passport Office and pestering passport applicants on Tuesday. They have either been fined or jailed in accordance with their offenses. Shahidul Islam, Deputy Assistant Director of RAB-2 informed, “24 members of the tout circle were captured…
Rubya Tripty: A man wearing shark suit along with covering full face mask as a part of advertisement to promote his new shop, a branch of a computer service in Vienna has been cautioned under ‘Burka ban’ law. Austria’s anti mask act, prohibiting veil that covers full face came into force from 1 October 2017. Under…