Alec Baldwin’s manslaughter trial over the fatal 2021 shooting on the set of a Western movie begins Tuesday, with the selection of a jury who must decide if a “Rust” crew member’s death was his fault.The Hollywood A-lister was pointing a prop gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a scene rehearsal when it fired a […]

DU to be top research-oriented university by 2035: VC. Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr ASM Maksud Kamal today expressed firm determination to transform Dhaka University into a top research-oriented university by 2035 and a research-led ‘R1’ (doctoral universities with high research activities) category university by 2045. “To achieve the goals, ‘Academic Master Plan’ and ‘Academic […]

The first-ever Annual Performance Agreement (APA) of Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority (BPPA) for 2024-2025 fiscal year was signed today between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BPPA and the Secretary of Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED). The Cabinet Division introduced Annual Performance Agreement from the financial year of 2015-2016 with an aim of increasing […]

Myanmar junta says ‘facing challenges’ curbing opium boom.Conflict-ravaged Myanmar is “facing challenges” in stemming opium poppy cultivation, the junta said Wednesday, months after the UN warned the country had become the world’s biggest producer of the narcotic.Myanmar’s legal economy has been gutted by conflict and instability since the military seized power in 2021 and sparked […]

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) announced that the depression over the east-central Bay and adjoining west-central Bay has intensified into a deep depression as of 9 am.”The depression over the east-central Bay and adjoining west-central Bay has moved north-northeastwards, intensified into a deep depression, and was centered at 9 am today. It is likely to […]

Iranians gathered on Tuesday to mourn at the funerary procession of president Ebrahim Raisi in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the capital of East Azerbaijan province where he died unexpectedly in a helicopter crash.The helicopter lost communication while it was on its way back to Tabriz after Raisi attended a joint inauguration of a dam […]