US calling high-level meeting on AI around UN session
The Trump administration is going to organise a high-level event on artificial intelligence (AI) during the United Nations General Assembly session in New York next week. It is thought that the AI issue will get considerable importance at this gathering…
Dr Titumir urges overhaul of global financial architecture
Dr Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, finance and planning adviser to the prime minister, has called for extensive reform of the global financial architecture to ensure affordable, fair and risk-sensitive financing for developing countries. He made the call while…
Try to do Tk 10 crore work for Tk 7-8 crore: LGRD minister to LGED
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan has called on officials of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) to implement development projects by ensuring maximum use of the country’s limited…
Body of CoU teacher’s son found in jungle a day after going missing
Police have recovered the body of 13-year-old Apratim, the only child of the couple Dr Nahida Begum, associate professor of the Bangla department of Cumilla University, and KM Firoz Shahriar. He had gone missing after going out with his mother’s…
Thakurgaon-1 by-election: Interviews of BNP nomination seekers end, decision later
Ahead of the by-election to the Thakurgaon-1 constituency, the party’s national standing committee has interviewed BNP’s nomination seekers. However, who will be the party’s candidate in this constituency will be announced after the…
‘The education system was toyed with for 17 years’: Rizvi
BNP Acting Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said that if a nation ignores the importance of education and the education system, it cannot survive in a competitive world. The country’s education system was toyed with over the past 17 years.…
Families of newborns get saplings as gifts in Kalkini
The upazila administration in Kalkini of Madaripur has taken an exceptional initiative by handing over tree saplings to the families of newborns. Keeping in front the slogan ‘Today’s child is the life of tomorrow, a sapling is new life for…
Bodies of husband, wife and infant daughter recovered from house in Manikganj
Police have recovered the bodies of three members of the same family from inside a house in Manikganj Sadar upazila. It has been learnt that expatriate Ikram Hossain killed his wife and one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and then took his own life by…
Special initiative to make youths entrepreneurs, Tk 60,000 crore in stimulus: Governor
Bangladesh Bank Governor Md Mostakur Rahman has said the central bank has taken a special initiative to connect the country’s youths with the mainstream of the economy and develop them as entrepreneurs. At the same time, an initiative has been…
‘Dream hero’ Salman Shah’s 55th birthday today
Today, 19 September, is the 55th birthday of Salman Shah, Dhallywood’s short-lived hero. The ‘dream hero’ of Bangla cinema was born on this day in 1971 at Zakiganj in Sylhet. Although his life stopped at the age of only 25, his place in…