Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) is going to replace its 110-member contingents at the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission deployed in Mali (MINUSMA). As a part of this replacement, 70 members left Dhaka for Mali on Friday by a UN chartered aircraft (Ethiopian Airlines), says a press release of ISPR. Rest of the contingent members will depart […]
Bangladesh’s commuting system entered a new era on Wednesday as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the country’s first metro rail service in Dhaka. She inaugurated the operation of the first phase of the project, Uttara to Agargaon, at 11am at Uttara Sector 15 playground. Mariam Afiza, the driver who operated the inaugural journey of the […]
An out-of-tune Bangladeshi singer with a huge internet following was hauled in by police at dawn and told to cease his painful renditions of classical songs, sparking a furore on social media. “Hero” Alom, as he styles himself, has amassed nearly two million Facebook followers and almost 1.5 million on YouTube with his unique crooning […]
Star Cineplex, part of leading multiplex chain in Bangladesh, has issued a clarification after a video circulating on social media claimed that an elderly man was denied ticket at one of its multiplexes because he was wearing a lungi. The video, that appeared on Wednesday, went viral in a short time. The man in the video […]
Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) is now the country’s most sought after service, attracting country’s best minds. A BBC report from 2021, more than 4.5 lakhs peoples applied against only 2,166 vacant posts, i.e. 220 people has applied against each vacant post on an average. In the recent 44th BCS exam, a total of 3,50,716 applications […]
The Global Liveability Index 2022 ranks Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka as the Seventh least liveable city in the world, prepared by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Dhaka has moved up three spots from last year ranking. Dhaka scored 39.2 out of 100. It ranked 166th out of 172 cities on the Global Liveability Index for 2022. Its […]
Leicester City footballer Hamza Choudhury have posted asking for help for the ongoing devastating floods in the northeastern Bangladesh for the last couple of weeks. The footballer, who has a Bangladeshi mother, posted on popular social media outlet Facebook asking for donation for the flood-affected people. Hamza wrote, ”SYLHET NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT! ” ”The flood […]
The ache for home lives in all of us. That’s the reason we always try to celebrate festivals with our family’s at home. Eid-ul-fitr, the biggest religious festival of Muslim is almost here. Due to corona pandemic people have not been able to celebrate Eid with their dear one’s for last two years. That’s the […]
Nahid, who was working in the courier service, died on night on April 19 while undergoing treatment in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in a clash between businessmen and students of Dhaka College in New Market area. Nahid died of excessive bleeding due to injuries sustained during the collision. An autopsy of Nahid’s body was […]
Over the years, Xiaomi’s note series has been the most successful series in the mid budget segment in our country. Note series has always dominated their competition in the sales figure and in price to performance ratio. From the inception of this series, Xiaomi has targeted to provide value for money smartphone for the masses. […]