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Death penalty for obstructing aircraft operation
The Cabinet yesterday approved the draft of ‘The Civil Aviation Bill, 2017’ incorporating a provision for capital punishment or life term and a fine of maximum Tk five crore for obstructing any aircraft operation, reports UNB. The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the cabinet…
Students fear session jam
The ongoing session jam may take a worse turn for students of the Rajshahi University of Engineering (RUET). Teachers of the varsity continue to boycott classes and academic activities, demanding punishment for those agitating students who confined and assaulted them during a protest programme for cancellation…
Holding private universities accountable
Some 39 private universities are about to face legal action for failing to shift to their own permanent campuses as per the government-stipulated final deadline of January 31. The legal penalty would also include barring students’ admission, restricting launch of new curriculum and alerting admission…
TPP minus one: An opportunity for Bangladesh
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a twelve nation’s trade agreement that covers 40 percent of world economy. The twelve parties of TPP are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US and Vietnam. Cutting tariff and simplifying regulations…
‘Radio vital to economic, cultural
development’
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu described the role of radio for economic and cultural development as unique, reports BSS. “Radio initiates the demand for development, it creates awareness among people for democratic needs and satisfies the cultural needs and develops it further. Simultaneously,…
Experts for strict monitoring on fixing medicine price
Expressing apprehension about the rising prices and market access of medicines and pharmaceutical items, experts concerned yesterday said that the governments across the globe should exercise its regulatory power to fix fair price of medicines. The information was shared during the third Center for…
Mass evacuation as rains strain tallest US dam
AFP, SAN FRANCISCO: Almost 200,000 people were under evacuation orders in northern California Monday after damage to the overflow channel of the tallest dam in the United States raised fears the spillway could collapse.The reservoir of the Oroville Dam, located 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of the…
Bhabna’s short film ‘Borosha’ hits YouTube today
Lustrous model-actress Ashna Habib Bhabna’s debut short film ‘Borosha’ will be released on YouTube today at 8:30pm. Directed by Animesh Aich, Bhabna will be seen appearing opposite popular singer-actor Tahsan in the short film. Produced under the banner of Kinbokoi.com, the…
‘First innings blunder makes the difference’
Those who wrote off Bangladesh’s chance to stretch the Test to fifth day ahead of the one-off Test against India, the Mushfiqur Rahim-led team showed a valiant effort to swallow their own pill. The Bangladesh not only stretched the Test to final day, but also made India worried till the last day…
Bumper wheat production likely
PANCHAGARH: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) is expecting to achieve a bumper wheat production in the district during the current season, reports BSS. A total of 15,000 hectares of land under wheat cultivation this season in the district eyes with an output target of 45,000 tonnes of wheat,…
School students yet to get all textbooks
Students of different schools in the capital are worried as they are yet to get all textbooks, though distribution of free books began on the first day of the year in a festive environment. The National Curriculum Textbook Board (NCTB) insisted that there is no shortage of books and blamed the crisis…
Why we still need Black History Month in the US
Danielle Fuentes Morgan is an assistant professor at Santa Clara University. Earlier this month, US Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged the beginning of Black History Month by noting Abraham Lincoln’s effort to re-unite the union through the 13th amendment. Let’s consider the optics of…
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