The UN says it hopes to start delivering aid to some besieged areas in Syria within the next 24 hours.The move comes shortly after world powers agreed to push for a cessation of hostilities in a week’s time.Some Syrian cities…
Day: February 12, 2016
Banglalink CTO freed.. assurance of ‘solution to problem’
Employees of Banglalink have freed an official after nine hours’ of confinement with the management and police promising to look into the dismissal of a senior engineer.Ujjal Paul, the president of the proposed employees’ union of mobile-phone operator Banglalink, said…
Banglalink staff confine chief tech officer to protest removal of engineer
Employees of mobile-phone operator Banglalink have confined an official demanding withdrawal of an order sacking a senior engineer.They were yet to let Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Perihane Elhamy leave her office in the operator’s headquarters at Gulshan at 10:45pm on…
Development will not last without democracy…Khaleda
Bangladesh’s development will not sustain in the absence of democracy, Khaleda Zia has told a visiting delegation of the European Parliament.The representatives of the European Union’s parliament met the BNP chief at her Gulshan office on Thursday.“It was clearly stated…
Shakib in Caribbean league for $1.1 lakh
Bangladesh’s ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been sold for $1,10,000 or Tk 87 lakh to a Caribbean Super League (CPL) team. The star all-rounder is going to join Jamaica Talawas, following his successes in Indian Premier League (IPL) previously…
BSMMU professor accuses Square Hospital of administering fake medicine
The High Court has ordered an inquiry into allegations of patients being administered spurious drugs at Dhaka’s Square Hospital.The court issued the order in response to a writ petition filed by Prof Dr AMM Zakaria Swapan, who alleged that he…
Einstein was right 100 years ago
The researchers said they detected gravitational waves coming from two black holes – extraordinarily dense objects whose existence also was foreseen by Einstein – that orbited one another, spiralled inward and smashed together. They said the waves were the product…
RU BCL demands trial of Khaleda over her remark on martyrs
RU Correspondent Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Rajshahi University (RU) unit demanded trial of Begum Khaleda Zia, the BNP chairperson, for her controversial remark on the martyrs of Liberation War.