The government wants to make madrassah education relevant, practical and modern, the interim government鈥檚 adviser to the education ministry Professor Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar said on Wednesday...
Highlighting the untapped potential of the Bangladesh Forest Industries Development Corporation (BFIDC), environment, forest and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has emphasised the urgent need to modernize the corporation through new equipment, innovative designs, and capacity-building measures...
Modern ovens furnished with electricity and gas powers are pretty fast replacing the traditional earthen ovens in baking Bakarkhani, the flat thin snack bread that has for centuries been ubiquitously present in the Old Dhaka households...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul said that the interim government had initiated plans to build a dedicated modern hospital for expatriate community...
The government has initiated a move to introduce online case filing, aiming at modernising policing and reducing public harassment in filing cases with police stations...
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority held a seminar titled Modern Food Safety System in Bangladesh at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka in the capital on Monday...
Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Sunday said in Dhaka that Chinese modernisation could offer some reference for Bangladesh at this crucial crossroads of transformation...
A DEPLORABLE failure of urban waste governance has left large parts of southern Dhaka cloaked in toxic smoke for more than two weeks, as a fire at the Matuail landfill continues to spread palls of toxic smoke across densely populated neighbourhoods such as Jurain, Jatrabari, Sayedabad and Maniknagar. The...
Speakers at a programme have said that the adoption of modern technologies will play a crucial role in the development of education sector in the country.聽..
Dhaka Bank PLC distributed modern agricultural machinery among approximately 300 local farmers of Belkuchi Upazila in Sirajganj as part of its special corporate social responsibility (agriculture), said press release...
Today is the 82nd anniversary of birth of eminent novelist, short story writer Akhtaruzzaman Elias, who is often considered as one of the finest writers in modern Bangla literature...
Stalls in modern designs with organic materials, installed by different publishing houses and organisations at the ongoing Amar Ekushey Book Fair to display books have attracted the visitors鈥� attention...
THE slow death of Dhaka鈥檚 green spaces under the pretext of development is not merely an environmental concern; it is directly influencing the liveability of the city. The government鈥檚 latest decision to construct a road through Osmani Udyan is yet another example of such destruction of public parks in the name of development or modernisation. The road construction...
Dhaka Bank PLC on Sunday distributed modern agricultural machinery among 450 local farmers at Sirajdikhan Upazila in Munshiganj as part of its social corporate responsibility, said a press release...
Today is the 68th anniversary of death of novelist, short story writer Manik Bandopadhyay, who is often considered as one of the finest writers in modern Bangla literature...
A newly-built classroom under the 鈥楯apanese Language Classroom Improvement Project鈥� of the Institute of Modern Languages of University of Dhaka was inaugurated at the institute on Tuesday...
IN HIS seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concepts. In its insidious, older form, one focused on the concept of natal alienation, slaves were chattels and assets, outrightly owned. Each slave system was distinct and protean, if marked by certain universal features...
WE ARE living in a digital age where artificial intelligence emerges as the most hyped of all. AI creates an illusion that it is human parallel intelligence, although it is not in fact. The OECD defines AI as a machine-based system that has limited autonomy to make some decisions...
