State Minister for Information and Technology Junaid Ahmed Palak said that no government website has been hacked. “Due to the vulnerability of the website, the citizens’ information was leaked. Efforts to resolve the matter are underway.” He made the comment while responding to reporters at ICT Tower in the city’s Agargaon on Sunday.  

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked scholars, including fellows of the Prime Minister’s Fellowship (PMF), to apply their own intelligence and thoughts incorporating knowledge to be acquired from local and foreign education to devise plans to ensure the country’s robust development. “We will never depend on other’s model for ensuring development of our country. We have to apply own ...

A total of 48 scholars from different sectors on Sunday received Prime Minister’s Fellowship (PMF) for 2023-24 sessions. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina conferred 38 masters and 10 Ph.D PMF on the scholars at the Shapla Hall of her office this morning for pursuing the degrees at globally top-ranking universities. So far, 277 masters’ fellows and 108 Ph.D fellows have been ...

England won the under-21 European Championship for the first time since 1984 as Curtis Jones’ goal beat Spain 1-0 in Saturday’s final. In a dramatic finale in Batumi, Spain captain Abel Ruiz had a 99th-minute penalty saved by Manchester City goalkeeper James Trafford to preserve England’s record of not conceding a goal all tournament. “I told everyone this morning I ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said collapse of the one-point movement of BNP and 32 like-minded opposition parties is inevitable as these parties are a mismatched and hotchpotch. Quader, who is also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, was responding to the queries of journalists after inspecting the construction work of Dhaka Elevated Expressway in Kawla area, adjacent ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said question doesn’t arise at all to reach a consensus with the ruling Awami League government. “We held dialogue trusting them (Awami League) in the past, but was cheated. So, question doesn’t arise to hold dialogue with them again,” he said taking part in a discussion on contemporary political context organised in ...

Bangladesh Bank (BB) is moving forward cautiously with optimism to reduce the stress on the economy, which was created by the US dollar crisis and higher inflation. The central bank underscored such observations in a quarterly report on the economy. It said the economy remained under stress from external effects, including rising commodity prices and supply disruptions due to the ...

Children across the country are facing an increasing threat of cardiac disorder, claimed the cardiac surgeons in Burdwan on Doctor’s Day on Saturday. While inaugurating a cardiac care hospital named after Nobel laureate Mother Teresa, Dr Saptarsi Roy said: “The kids by and large have stopped visiting the playgrounds in urban areas and their food habits too have changed drastically ...

Babies are considerably more likely to participate in “baby talk” when dealing with artificial things than when interacting with natural ones, according to a study. Infants often communicate with protophones, which are sounds resembling squeals, growls or short word-like noises such as “da”, “aga” and “ba”. These are considered the foundations of speech, as they eventually evolve into full language. ...

Five people were killed in a collision between a bus and a battery-run auto-rickshaw on Sylhet-Tamabil road at Darvaste under Jaintapur Upazila in Sylhet on Friday night. The identity of the deceased couldn’t be known immediately. According to locals, a Jaflong-bound bus from Sylhet and collided with a three-wheeler in front of the Sylhet-Tamabil Highway Darvaste Palli Bidyut Office at ...