The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is planning to introduce guidelines on Over-the-Top (OTT) applications. This will help it monitor the number of calls made by subscribers using OTT applications (apps). Announcing this at a press conference on Friday, BTRC chairman Dr Shahjahan…

A six-month-old Rohingya baby, Jane Alam, died yesterday, shortly after its mother managed to enter Bangladesh territory. The mother, Nur Begum, said they were forced to flee Myanmar as the authorities there have been carrying out brutal repression, including killings and rapes, in their villages. She…

Even though the refugee camps lack basic facilities and the refugee’s life is fraught with uncertainty, those Rohingyas who have managed to flee Myanmar have heaved sighs of relief as they have found a safe haven in Bangladesh. As they themselves put it, the uncertain life at the refugee camp…

West Indies stroke-maker Chris Gayle said that he tends to feed off the crowd’s energy, which gives him motivation to get better. This time he will…

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday came down heavily on Myanmar’s de facto leader and Nobel  peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for her inaction to protect her Rohingya population in Rakhine state from the violence perpetrated by the armed forces of that country. Her silence over the oppression…

Shashank Subramanyam, a noted flautist from India, fascinated the audience with his blissful performance on the third day of the fifth edition of the…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Budapest this morning on a four-day visit at the invitation of Hungarian President Dr Janos Ader to attend the Budapest Water Summit 2016, reports UNB. Bangladesh and Hungary are likely to sign four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) during Sheikh Hasina's…