Tech Desk Walton has released its 4G smartphone ‘Primo H8’ in Turbo Edition with upgraded processor yesterday. The attractively designed device which was earlier released in different versions of 2GB and 3 GB RAM, now comes with a 1.5 GHz…
Year: 2019
Nigeria’s Lagos battles Atlantic erosion
Sprawled around a lagoon, Nigeria’s frenetic economic capital faces a threat from the Atlantic on its doorstep. The ocean has pounded the soft, sandy shoreline on a timescale far surpassing human history — but now its waves spell a major…
Japan boyband star-maker Johnny Kitagawa dead
Japan’s leading boyband star-maker Johnny Kitagawa, who built an entertainment empire and broke records with his acts, has died of a stroke, his company said. He was 87. Kitagawa was behind the birth of J-pop groups including SMAP, TOKIO and…
Kamruzzaman Sagar wins award in National Art Exhibition
Culture DeskThis year feted print maker Kamruzzaman Sagar has bagged the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Award 2019 (valued at BDT 2 lakhs) at the 23rd National Art Exhibition for his work Global Warming (Lithograph). He is now an Assistant Professor of…
Fagun Haway bags two awards at SAARC Film Fest
Culture Desk Fagun Haway has now won two awards at the 9th SAARC Film Festival. After much debacle regarding the terror attack on April 21 in Sri Lankan churches the festival started on July 2 in the Sri Lankan capital…
Defeat ruling party with strength of unity: BNP
Dhaka, July 10 – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday urged his party colleagues to find out effective ways based on political reality to defeat the ruling party with the strength of people’s unity. “The world politics…
Dhaka to invite World Heritage Committee to the Sundarbans
Dhaka, Jul 10 – Bangladesh will invite World Heritage Committee (WHC) team to visit the Sundarbans and adjoining areas to prepare report on the environmental issue regarding the Rampal power plant, Prime Minister’s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said Wednesday.…
Rohingya: Cox’s Bazar ecological balance at stake: Hasina
PM seeks global solution to climate change Dhaka, July 10 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the environmental balance of Cox’s Bazar is under threat as settlements are being established there for Rohingyas clearing hills and forests. “For…
BAU appoints new associate adviser
Mymensingh, July 10 – Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) authorities have appointed Prof Dr Md Azharul Islam of Environmental Science Department as new students’ affairs associate adviser of the university for 2 years. The duties of the office handed over to…
হাতেখড়ি শিশু-কিশোর আর্ট ও ফটোগ্রাফী এক্সিবিশন অনুষ্ঠিত
ঢাকা: জাতীয় শিশু-কিশোর পত্রিকা হাতেখড়ির আয়োজনে রাজধানীর দৃক গ্যালারীতে ৮ জুলাই সোমবার শিশু-কিশোর আর্ট ও ফটোগ্রাফী এক্সিবিশন অনুষ্ঠিত হয়েছে। হাতেখড়ি আর্ট এন্ড ফটো চ্যালেঞ্জে অংশগ্রহনকারীদের বাছাইকৃত ছবি নিয়ে এক্সিবিশন চলে সকাল ১১টা থেকে সন্ধ্যা ৭টা পর্যন্ত। প্রথমবারের মতো হাতেখড়ির এআয়োজনে…
HC orders death row convict Nur Hossain’s graft case trial
Dhaka, July 10 – The High Court yesterday cancelled a lower court verdict that exonerated Nur Hossain, a death-row convict in Narayanganj seven-murder case, from a corruption case. The HC also directed the lower court to finish the trial of…
Rickshaws to ply on fixed lanes and by-lanes: Mayor Atiq
Dhaka, July 10 – Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam said QR code will be set up in registered legal rickshaws to identify illegal ones. He also announced that except on lanes for non-mechanical transport or by lanes,…
BNP starts withdrawing expulsions on UZ-level leaders
Dhaka, July 10 – The BNP now starts backing home around 200 grassroots leaders who were expelled for participating in last Upazila elections held followed the December 30 parliamentary polls. As part of the endavour, the party has withdrawn expulsion…
BPL Football: Sheikh Jamal beat Dhaka Mohammedan 2-1
Dhaka – Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club defeated Dhaka Mohammedan SC by 2-1 goals in the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Football at the floodlight Bangabandhu National Stadium here on Wednesday. With the day’s feat, Sheikh Jamal DC advanced to the…
New Zealand knock India out of World Cup
Dhaka – New Zealand knocked India out of the ongoing ICC Men’s World Cup, winning the first semifinal by 18 runs on Wednesday at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester. The Kiwis marched into the final for the second successive time. They…
BD swimmers to compete in FINA World Champs in South Korea
Dhaka – A five-member swimming team comprising of three swimmers and two officials will represent Bangladesh in the 18th FINA World Championship scheduled to be held in Gwangju of South Korea from July 12-28. Of the five member team, two…
Khaleda a serious threat to politics: Hasan Mahmud
Dhaka, July 10 (UNB) – Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda is a big threat to the country’s politics as her party does not believe in people’s welfare. “The politics is for the welfare of…
Ban Ki-Moon wants global climate adaptation centre in Dhaka
Dhaka, Jul 10 (UNB) – Former UN Secretary-General, who is also the chairman of the Global Commission on Adaptation, Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday proposed setting up a global centre for adaptation in Bangladesh for the South and South-East Asia. He…
2 Viqarunnissa school teachers sued over student suicide
Dhaka, July 10 (UNB) – A court here on Wednesday indicted two teachers of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in a case over the suicide of schoolgirl Aritree Adhikari. Dhaka Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Rabiul Alam framed the…
Docu-Fiction film “Jonmobhumi” on Rohingya screened at UNHQs
Dhaka, July 10 (UNB) – In commemoration of World Refugee Day, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the UN has recently hosted the screening of a docu-fiction film on the forcibly displaced Rohingyas residing in the camps in Cox’s Bazar. The…
Man lynched after he knifed to death 3 villagers in Comilla
Cumilla, July 10 (UNB) – Three people, including a woman and her a 12-year-old boy, were stabbed to death allegedly by a man who was subsequently beaten to death by local people at Radhanagar in Debidwar upazila on Wednesday. The…
Fake voices ‘help cyber-crooks steal cash’
Dhaka, Jul 10 (UNB) – A security firm says deepfaked audio is being used to steal millions of pounds, reports the BBC. Symantec said it had seen three cases of seemingly deepfaked audio of different chief executives used to trick…
Bangladesh’s Ex-Chief Justice Sinha, 10 more sued for graft
Dhaka, July 10 (UNB) — The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case on Wednesday against former chief justice SK Sinha and 10 others accusing them of accumulating illegal wealth and laundering Tk 4 crore. On September 25 last year, the…
6 bodies recovered from Cox’s Bazar sea beach
Cox’s Bazar, July 10 – Police recovered bodies of six people from Sughanda point of Cox’s Bazar sea beach in the district town on early Wednesday. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet. Khairuzzaman, officer-in-charge (investigation) of…
E-com rules promoted in name of women’s economic empowerment
Geneva, Jul (Kinda Mohamadieh) – Women in digital trade was the subject of a workshop convened at the World Trade Organization on 1 July. The day-long workshop was co-convened by the European Union, Trinidad and Tobago and Senegal, the fifth…
Manifesto on Food for Health: Cultivating Biodiversity, Cultivating Health
A Manifesto on Food for Health has been produced by the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture. It states that it is possible to create good health through good nutrition. Health effects from the current industrial food…
The challenge ahead: a safer and more dynamic Europe
by Gustav Horn In the latest in our ‘Europe2025’ series, Gustav Horn focuses on macroeconomic institutional reforms for crisis-proofing and a programme of investment to engender vital public goods. After the European Parliament elections, it is time to decide how…
Sustainable development needs fundamental governance changes
New York, 8 July 2019: “The world is off-track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Most governments have failed to turn the transformational vision of the 2030 Agenda into real transformational policies. Even worse, xenophobia and authoritarianism are on…
Twitter bans ‘dehumanising’ posts toward religious groups
San Francisco, July 9 (AP/UNB) — Twitter now prohibits hate speech that targets religious groups by using dehumanizing language, a ban it says may extend to other categories like race and gender. The social network already bars hateful language directed…
‘Something our sport has never seen’: Serena to Wimbledon SF
Wimbledon, July 9 (AP/UNB) — Slowed by a balky ankle, trailing by a service break in the third set of her Wimbledon quarterfinal, Serena Williams appeared to be in trouble Tuesday against an opponent playing the tournament of her life.…