Arafat Hasan of DOT Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has warned that anyone jeopardizing the implementation of good governance will not be spared ‘under any circumstances’. Kamal was addressing the annual sports and cultural event of Tejgaon Government High School in the capital yesterday as chief guest. “The honorable prime minister has vowed to prioritize…
DOT Desk The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed petitions to the court seeking orders to confiscate assets of drug dealers under the Money Laundering Prevention Act, sources said, reports The Daily Sun. A senior CID official told the daily sun that they have sufficient evidence to prove that several drug dealers have amassed huge…
Constantino Xavieris, Fellow at the Foreign Policy Studies, at Brookings India, in New Delhi/BDnews24 Despite attracting growing attention as the strategic heart of the Indo-Pacific, the Bay of Bengal remains one of the world’s least integrated regions, with abysmal levels of connectivity and formidable barriers to cooperation. To overcome these divides and foster regionalism, Bangladesh…
Reuters: China is slapping additional import tariffs of 25 percent on $16 billion worth of U.S. goods ranging from oil and steel products to autos and medical equipment, the commerce ministry said, as the world’s two largest economies escalate their trade dispute.
Science Alert: Elon Musk has published a photo of an experimental rocket meant to help him achieve his mission of conquering Mars. After teasing the spaceship earlier this month, Musk posted a picture of the vehicle – dubbed the “test hopper” – in real life on Friday from SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas. As…
DOT Desk Artist Monirul Islam was conferred with the “Royal Spanish Order of Merit” for his outstanding contribution to art on December 16. The award was handed to the artist at the Dhaka residence of the Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh at Gulshan in the city, reports The Daily Observer. The Spanish Ambassador in Dhaka Alvaro…
Kabir Humayun: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia can be released from jail either by the court or through presidential clemency, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. Replying to a question over BNP’s demand for Khaleda’s release, the PM said, “The government has nothing to do with it…she (Khaleda) has either to go to court or seek…
NDTV: A French fishing trawler netted a World War II bomb containing nearly a tonne of explosives off the coast of Normandy on Friday, prompting the emergency evacuation of the crew while the device was returned to the seabed, authorities said. The trawler was fishing around two nautical miles off the coast in the English…
Banglanews24:A young Bangladeshi researcher Md Mahady Hasan (popularly known as Soroj Mehedi), a Lecturer of Gono University, and also Turkey Scholarship Fellow has attended as a speaker at the “Mahatma Gandhi International Congress on Multidisciplinary Studies” in New Delhi of India. The seminar is ending on 28 Sept after starting on 25 Sept.Under the banner…
The Guardian, UK: British universities have made little progress in promoting black and other minority ethnic staff to senior positions, according to analysis of equality data. Statistics collated by Advance HE, formerly known as the Equality Challenge Unit charity, show that last year only a small fraction of professors in UK universities were from black…