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I am neither a musician nor a music critic. Nor am I trained in assessing the technicality of a music performance. However, as a trained feminist anthropologist, I love to follow—borrowing Arjun Appadurai’s phrase—the social life of things. Since Coke Studio Bangla launched in Bangladesh in 2022, it has been fascinating to follow its social life….
Arjina Khatun earned crores of rupees illegally while working in Chittagong Custom House as Second Secretary of National Board of Revenue (Museum Monitoring, Statistics and Coordinating) Department. In this sense, he built a mountain of wealth in Dhaka and Rajbari. On June 10, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed such a complaint on behalf of Fair…
Nobel laureate economist Dr. The court framed charges against 14 people including Muhammad Yunus. On Wednesday, Judge Syed Arafat Hossain of Dhaka’s Special Judge’s Court No. 4 rejected the plea of acquittal of the accused and filed charges against them. As a result, their trial in this case officially began. Earlier, on June 2, ACC…
Strong Earthquake Hits Japan The magnitude of the earthquake was 5.6. The earthquake struck off the country’s remote Izu Islands on Tuesday. Local authorities in Japan issued a tsunami warning after the earthquake. News AP’s Japan Meteorological Agency said a tsunami of one meter (3.3 inches) was expected to hit the Izu Islands at 8:30…
Globally steel raw material prices are stable now, but Bangladesh will have to spend higher for its import because of the US dollar rate hike since the introduction of the crawling peg system, analysts said today. “Despite the stable international rates, the import cost of scrap steel will increase in Bangladesh as US dollar prices have…
In the first 19 days of this October, 1.55 billion 3 million dollars remittances came to Bangladesh. This marks an average collection of $8.7 million per day. On Monday (October 21), the updated report of Bangladesh Bank has informed this information about remittance collection. As such, compared to the same period in September, Bangladesh received…
Zainul Abdin Farooq, a member of BNP Chairperson’s Advisory Council, commented that people are waiting to see what Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina brings from India. He made this comment at a protest rally organized by the Nationalist Citizens’ Council in front of the National Press Club on Friday (June 21) at noon. He said that…
Police have arrested 20 Jamaat-Shibir activists from Lalpur in Natore on charges of planning sabotage. They were arrested from Shivnagar area of the upazila around 10 pm on Tuesday (April 30). The arrested persons are the son of late Ershad Ali of Biropara area of Lalpur. Abdul Wahab (65), Gouripur area. Giyas Uddin’s son Ed….
