Reuters : China demanded on Thursday that Ukraine immediately remove more than a dozen Chinese companies from a list of...
Day: February 3, 2024
Syed Shemul Parvez : Amid a lot of agreements and commitments between Bangladesh-India to bring down border killing at zero...
City Desk : Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at a few places over the south, South-eastern and north-eastern parts and at one or two places over Dhaka division. “Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at a few places over Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Dhaka division,” said a met office forecast for the next 24 hours begins from 9am on Friday, reports BSS. Weather may remain mainly dry...
BBC Online : A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking a trove of classified hacking tools to whistle-blowing platform Wikileaks. Joshua Schulte was also found guilty of possessing child abuse images. Prosecutors have accused him of leaking the CIA’s “Vault 7” tools, which allow intelligence officers to hack smartphones and use them as listening devices. They said the leak is one of the most “brazen” in US history. Schulte, 35, shared some 8,761...
Agency : Sylhet Strikers regular captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza played five matches despite an injury due to his franchise’s demand, but he faced defeat in all five matches for Sylhet Strikers. For political commitments, Mashrafe took a break from the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Cricket and stand-in Captain Mohammad Mithun led his team against Durdanto Dhaka to their first victory on Friday....
As the world witnessed a staggering 446 ships scrapped globally last year, it is disheartening to acknowledge that Bangladesh bore the brunt of this environmental crisis, with 170 vessels landing on the shores of Chattogram. This alarming statistic not only solidifies Bangladesh’s status as the largest dumping ground for end-of-life vessels but also raises crucial concerns about the hazardous practices associated with ship-breaking. Of particular concern is the revelation that 159 out of the 170 ships scrapped in Chattogram were...
Md. Zillur Rahaman : February 2 is World Wetlands Day. Since February 2, 1997, environment conscious citizens of more than...
AFP : The United Nations said on Friday it estimates that at least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have...
Business Desk : Container shipping through the Red Sea has dropped by nearly one-third this year as attacks by Yemen’s Huthi rebels continue, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday. “Container shipping… has declined by almost 30 percent,” said Jihad Azour, director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia department, adding that “the drop in trade accelerated in the beginning of this year”. The Iran-backed Huthis have launched more than 30 attacks on commercial shipping and naval vessels since November...
City Desk : As many as 1,200 volunteers have joined a drive to remove waste from the Paris Canal in...
BSS : Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said the government is not worried about what BNP is saying over the last polls, but it is concerned about the price hike of essential commodities. “There is volatility in commodity prices worldwide. We are also concerned about the price hike of commodities. We have been working to check the price hike of goods,” he told a press conference at AL President’s Dhanmondi political office in Dhaka this afternoon. But,...