Bangladesh

Despite being only 14 years old, Bangladeshi American teen Kairan Quazi has been hired to work for SpaceX’s satellite internet team, Starlink, as a software engineer, the Los Angeles Times reports. Kairan, who is set to graduate this month from the Santa Clara University School of Engineering before starting the job at the satellite communications and spacecraft manufacturer, sees it ...

The elections to Khulna and Barishal City Corporations began on Monday. The voters started casting their respective votes from 8am. In Khulna City Corporation polls, as many as 535,522 voters, including 268,828 male and 2,66,698 female, are expected to cast their votes. A total of 2,320 CCTV cameras have been installed both inside and outside 1,732 polling booths. Meanwhile, a ...

  London: Arpita Shahriar Kabir, daughter of eminent writer, journalist, filmmaker and president of Ekattarer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee Shahriar Kabir expressed deep grief over the death of Mumu, UK branch of Ekattarer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee. In a condolence message, President Syed Anach Pasha, Senior Vice President Journalist Matiar Chowdhury, Vice President Nilufa Yasmin Hasan, Vice President Hormuz Ali, ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said no one could pull Bangladesh back again if children of the country are given the opportunity to flourish their talent. “If we give the opportunity to develop the talent of our children, no one can take this country back again,” she said while addressing the opening ceremony of the distribution of stipends, tuition fees ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said Awami League will not get more than 10 seats if the next general election is conducted by a caretaker government. “Because of it, this party’s (Awami League) general secretary said the caretaker government is a dead issue. But it is not, the caretaker government issue is a live issue,” he said. ...

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been released conditionally as she is sick. “As she is a convict, she has no opportunity to go outside the country. But she will have to serve the rest of her punishment, when she recovers,” the minister made the comment at a programme ‘Meet the Reporters’ of Dhaka Reporters ...

The 15th anniversary of release of Awami League President and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from prison is being observed today. On this day in 2008, Sheikh Hasina was released from the special sub-jail set up on the premises of the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) Bhaban after remaining captive there for nearly 11 months. The Awami League president was arrested from ...

The educational institutions that were closed due to the heatwave, reopened on Sunday morning. All classes of primary, secondary schools and madrasas will be held as per rules from today. Earlier, according to the decision of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, primary schools across the country have been closed since June 5. One day later, the classes at ...

The 15th anniversary of release of Awami League President and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from prison will be observed tomorrow. On this day in 2008, Sheikh Hasina was released from the special sub-jail set up on the premises of the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) Bhaban after remaining captive there for nearly 11 months. The Awami League president was arrested from ...

Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP has brought Jamaat-e-Islami in field to carry out arson terrorism. “Jamaat’s real guardian – BNP – brings it in the field. It means, they are preparing to carry out arson terrorism and vandalism again,” he told a peace rally arranged by Dhaka City ...