Hossen Sohel of DOT Rapid Action Battalion is set to start an “undercover operation” all across the country to prevent question paper leak ahead of the upcoming SSC examinations scheduled to begin on February 2, reports The Daily Star. The elite force members have already scaled up their cyber monitoring and patrolling to prevent question…
Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, Former Governor, Bangladesh Bank: The move to fix bank loan interest rate at 6% was not right. Bankers say they would fail to attract depositors just because of the interest rate. So why did they agree to do so? This is not right. Now they say they cannot grant 9% defaulted loan….
Channelnewsasia:The American who is suspected of leaking the personal information of 14,200 people from Singapore’s HIV registry has been traced to a small county in Kentucky, US, where he has been charged with trying to trespass into his mother’s house.Mikhy K Farrera-Brochez, 34, was arrested at his mother’s house in Clark County in December last…
NDTV: The Supreme Court said that it is not satisfied with the efforts to rescue 15 men trapped in a coal mine in Meghalaya for over three weeks and asked the government to list the steps it plans to rescue the miners who have been trapped inside the mine since December 13. The top court…
NTVOnline: A Durban man was reportedly stoned to death after he was caught allegedly trying to rape a minor at an informal settlement at Clare Estate in South Africa. According to Buzz South Africa, Angry residents of the informal settlement took the laws into their hands when they caught the Durban man trying to have…
Reported by: Mona Haque Written by: Eshan Maitra Awami League Government has taken a huge initiation in rejuvenating the rivers & creating 53 water-routes in order to reduce the dependency on roads. As part of this, capital dredging project for 50km water-ways from Daudkandi-Homna-Ramkrishnapur has been initiated. Now, BIWTA also announced that, a modern naval…
BSS A mobile court has sentenced four drug-traders including a woman to two years jail in Tanore Upazila of the district yesterday, police sources here said on Monday. The convicted persons were identified as Shafiqul Islam, 38, his wife Angura Begum, 25, Raihan Sarder, 25, and Rejaul Karim, 28.
Hossen Sohel of DOT UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its partners have been turning to green and non-polluting technology, including solar power, to help provide safe and clean water to Rohingyas living in the crowded settlements in Cox’s Bazar district, reports UNB. Over the past six months, five new safe water networks funded by…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy : Abu Tayeb Mohammed Anisuzzaman was born on February 18, 1937 at Calcutta. His paternal house is at Mohammadpur village in Barishal subdivision of 24 Chobbish Pargana District of West Bengal. His grandfather Sheikh Abdur Rahim (1859-1931) was a writer and journalist. He is…
Channel News Asia: Whether your doctor is male or female could be a matter of life or death, a new study suggests. The study, of more than 580,000 heart patients admitted over two decades to emergency rooms in Florida, found that mortality rates for both women and men were lower when the treating physician was…