Category: Daily News
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The foreign minister of Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday the kingdom could recognise Israel if an elaborate agreement were reached that included a state for Palestinians. “We agree that regional peace includes peace for Israel, but that could only happen through peace for the Palestinians through a Palestinian state,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan said in…
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The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) says it will rain in many places, including Dhaka, during the current mild cold wave. Rajshahi, Khulna, Barishal, and Chattogram areas are likely to get rain over the next 24 hours, starting at 9 a.m. today. The weather office has said that it might rain in a few places in…
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A ferry called “Rajnigandha” sank in the Padma around 8:30 AM today after hitting the bulkhead in thick fog in Paturia, Manikganj. The ferry was carrying 9 trucks—7 big ones and 2 small ones—and 10 to 15 people on board, including truck drivers, helpers, and ferry officials. All of the people inside were saved, except…
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The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) has shifted their policy on closing schools during the winter season. This has been done in response to the intense cold waves in various regions of Bangladesh. Previously, they stated that schools would be closed if the temperature falls below 17°C. But in a newer circular, the…
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Dhaka University (DU) has achieved the number one spot among Bangladeshi universities in the AD Scientific Index University/Institution Rankings 2024. Out of all 206 Bangladeshi institutions and universities listed there, DU holds the 2nd position, right after the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. The AD Scientific Index is an international ranking system that…
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Bangladeshi all-rounder Nasir Hossain, who is 32 years old, has admitted to breaking the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. He will now be banned for two years, with six months suspended. The ICC filed the charges in September 2023. They are linked to Hossain’s failure to disclose that he received an iPhone 12 as a gift worth…
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Bangladesh supports South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to bring Israel to justice for violating the 1948 Genocide Convention. The issue concerns the violation of Israel’s obligations in relation to Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. Bangladesh also supports South Africa’s request for provisional measures, including suspending military operations in Gaza…
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Bangladesh has been ranked 37th in the annual Global Firepower review, 2024. The country went up 3 spots since 2023 when it ranked 40th. Among South Asian nations, Bangladesh is currently in the 4th position in terms of military strength. India, Pakistan, and Myanmar are ahead, while Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan are behind Bangladesh.…
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Police arrested Farnaz Alam, owner of the beauty parlour Woman’s World, in a case over installing CCTV cameras at the parlour in Dhanmondi. But a Dhaka court allowed her bail just hours after she was detained, said police. Farnaz Alam, an expecting mother, was held at the airport immigration by Dhanmondi police station officer-in-charge Parvez…
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Apu Biswas has been in show business for almost twenty years and recently worked with director Salman Haider on an unnamed movie. She has asked for only Tk 100 in payment for this project, in which she will play Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “Sheikh Russel er Artonad” and “Ami Maa er Kache jabo” are the…
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A court in Dhaka today issued arrest warrants for Mohammad Rassel and his co-founder wife, Shamima Nasrin, in connection with a bounced cheque case. Rassel was the former CEO of the controversial e-commerce site Evaly. They were given a summons and got it on time, but the couple did not show up today to appear…
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An arrested leader of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, which is the student branch of the BNP, took part in namaz-e-janaza for his father at Mirzaganj upazila in Patuakhali while his legs were chained. Nazmul Mridha, who is the joint convener of the JCD unit in Mirzaganj upazila, was given parole for four hours so that…
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The United Nations warned on Friday that this year could be hotter than the record-breaking year of 2023 because of El Nino. The UN also called for big cuts in emissions to fight climate change. The World Meteorological Organization of the UN said that every month from June to December, new monthly temperature records were…
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Netflix has had a lot of success with the Straw Hat Pirates, and not just with the live-action version of One Piece. It has also done really well with the animated version. There are already a lot of episodes of the anime show on Netflix, and the platform just recently brought the current storyline, the…
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The Canadian government plans to reduce the number of international students in Canada, but Immigration Minister Marc Miller did not share by what volume. He assured that he will be exploring the potential of doing so in the upcoming months. The federal government of Canada has faced backlash for allowing an increasing number of immigrants,…
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The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Umpires Committee is trying hard to improve its umpires. According to a recent project, they tested the English language skills of 70 umpires and only 9 passed. Writing, speaking, and reading skills were tested in this test, which was put together with the help of the American International University Bangladesh…
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A Chinese startup has released a new battery that it claims can generate electricity for 50 years without the need for charging again or any maintenance. Beijing-based Betavolt said its nuclear battery is the very first in the world to succeed in the miniaturisation of atomic energy, putting 63 nuclear isotopes into a module smaller…
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The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has told people to wear masks as a safety measure because a new type of COVID-19 called JN.1 has been spreading in many countries around the world. The news statement says that infections with the new Covid-19 variant JN.1 have become more common in several countries. As a…
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রাজধানীর বসুন্ধরা আবাসিক এলাকায় এক ব্যবসায়ীর বাসায় রাতে অভিযানে যান মাদকদ্রব্য নিয়ন্ত্রণ অধিদপ্তরের একজন উপপরিদর্শকসহ (এসআই) কয়েকজন সদস্য। ওই বাসায় মাদক আছে দাবি করে তল্লাশি শুরু করেন তাঁরা। প্রায় দেড় ঘণ্টা তল্লাশি করে তাঁরা কিছু পাননি। তবে বাসার একটি আলমারিতে ৪ লাখ ৩০ হাজার টাকা দেখতে পান তাঁরা। তখন ওই ব্যবসায়ী ও তাঁর স্ত্রীকে গ্রেপ্তার…
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Evaly CEO Mohammad Rassel announced plans to refund money stuck in the payment gateway in January and clear legacy debt on bank cheques from May. Rassel addressed an online press conference from his office in Dhanmondi, stating that Evaly has received a “great response” from customers and merchants since resuming operations. “We have processed over…
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Firefighters found the burnt bodies of a woman and a child after a fire caught on at Mollabari slum in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar in Saturday morning. Around 300 homes were burned down in the fire that broke out in the slum next to the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (FDC) premises, reports UNB. Dhaka North City…
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Anonno Mamun of Action Cut Entertainment, who have brought multiple hit Bollywood movies to Bangladesh these past months, has confirmed that ‘Fighter’ starring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone may hit theaters in Bangladesh in January 25. He said, “This Sunday, we hope to submit the application to bring ‘Fighter’ to Bangladesh. Our goal is to…
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OpenAI has launched the GPT Store, a marketplace for users to create and share GPTs (Generative Pre-training Transformers) for ChatGPT-like AI chatbots. Currently available to ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, and Team users, the store features various GPTs for various uses, including writing, analysis, education, programming, lifestyle, and image generator DALL-E. New GPTs are featured every week,…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has married his longtime boyfriend, Oliver Mulherin, in a seaside event. Altman confirmed the news in a message to NBC News after photos of the wedding began spreading on social media. The photos show the San Francisco couple near palm trees and about a dozen guests at a secret tropical beach…
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নতুন কারিকুলাম ও মূল্যায়ন পদ্ধতিতে পরিবর্তন আসতে পারে বলে জানিয়েছেন সদ্য দায়িত্বপ্রাপ্ত শিক্ষামন্ত্রী মহিবুল হাসান চৌধুরী নওফেল। তিনি বলেছেন, নতুন কারিকুলামে বেশকিছু অন্তর্ভুক্তি (ইনপুট) আসছে। এগুলো আমরা বিচার-বিশ্লেষণ করে দেখছি। এখানে যেসব বিষয়গুলো পরিবর্তন করা প্রয়োজন, সেগুলো অবশ্যই আমরা পরিবর্তন করব। শিক্ষামন্ত্রী বলেন, ‘নতুন শিক্ষাক্রমে অনেক চ্যালেঞ্জ রয়েছে। মূল্যায়ন পদ্ধতির চ্যালেঞ্জের কথা যদি বলেন সেখানে…
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A popular TikTok star who went by the name “Cooking with Lynja,” Lynn Yamada Davis died at the age of 67 from oesophageal cancer. More than 17.5 million people started following the famous internet star on TikTok after she started sharing wholesome cooking videos during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her daughter Hannah Mariko Shofet had shared…
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In the 12th Jatiya Sangsad elections, Barrister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury was chosen as a Member of Parliament from the Chittagong-9 constituency. He is now the Minister of Education. The news came out in a press statement on Thursday (January 11) from the Ministry of Cabinet Division. Following his success in the 2018 general elections, Mohibul,…
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Milan, a 13-year-old boy who wishes to become a designer, became Louis Vuitton’s youngest employee after his mother posted sketches on social media that were inspired by the brand. Milan, who has trouble paying attention, showed ideas for sneakers, luggage, and loungewear. He did something pretty cool with the standard Louis Vuitton style. A French…
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Yesterday, during a counter-terrorism operation in the occupied West Bank earlier this week, one of the Israeli army’s trucks “accidentally” ran over a Palestinian operative’s body. Palestinian leaders said that Israel had committed a “brutal crime” after video on social media showed a military car in the city of Tulkarem late Monday night running over…
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Khaleda Zia, the chairperson of the BNP, was finally released from Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Thursday, after being there for five months for treatment. Shirin Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP’s media cell, said that Khaleda was released from the hospital around 5 PM and is on her way back to her home…
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Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi led leaders and members of the BNP into the party’s central office on Thursday morning, breaking the lock on the door for the first time since October 29. It had been closed for 2.5 months. They walked into the office at 10:30 AM. Rizvi said after coming into…
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An official of Bangladesh Bank died after a brick chip from a building dropped on her head in Siddheswari, Dhaka. The deceased was identified to be Dipu Sana. She was senior assistant director of Bangladesh Bank. The accident occurred around 6:00 PM near Siddheswari’s Fakhruddin point while Sana was going to her Moghbazar home on…
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Sheikh Hasina, head of the Awami League, has been named Prime Minister again. This is her fourth straight term in office after winning a landslide victory in Bangladesh’s 12th national parliamentary elections. This sets a global precedent because Sheikh Hasina is the first woman in the world to be in charge of a government for…
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The Bangladeshi passport is ranked 97th in the 2024 Henley Passport Index, which is the most widely used ranking of passports. This is one spot lower than it was in the last quarter of 2023. The most recent version of the Passport Index came out on Tuesday. It has 104 spots, and some countries’ papers…
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After winning the general election by a huge margin on January 7, Bangladesh Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said today that no one can stop the country from moving forward from now on as her party is back in power. She said this at a gathering in the city’s historic Suhrawardy Udyan.…
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MoU has been signed between the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar and the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). They have also signed MoU with the Jahangirnagar University. The MoUs were made so that teachers and researchers could look for ways to work together on different projects. The Memorandums of Understanding were signed…
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All candidates who won from their own constituencies in the 12th parliamentary election on January 7 have finished taking their oath of office as members of parliament today. Newly elected Jatiyo Party MPs were administered their oaths by Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury at the parliament around 12:10 PM. The JP bagged 11 parliamentary seats in…
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AHM Mustafa Kamal, Bangladesh’s Finance Minister, said on Tuesday that it would close to impossible for the country to meet the International Monetary Fund (IMF) goal for its foreign exchange reserves. But he also said that Bangladesh’s economy was strong, both in terms of net and gross measures. He also said that the amount of…
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South Korea just started giving out a Digital Nomad visa to foreigners who want to work from home there. This program, which is also called a “workation” visa, started on January 1, 2024, and can include families of foreign workers who want to work from home in South Korea. This includes spouses and children. The…
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According to Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the State Department, the US said that the national elections in Bangladesh on January 7 were not “free and fair.” He has also said that the US acknowledges that the Awami League party won most of the seats, but it is worried about the arrests of thousands of…