October2019

The Palli Karma-Shayak Foundation (PKSF) is going to implement a new challenging project — Pathways to Prosperity for Extremely Poor People (PPEPP) – targeting some of the extremely poor of the country. The piloting of the...

South African great AB de Villiers will make his debut in Australia’s Twenty20 Big Bash League during the 2019-20 season after signing with Brisbane Heat, the team announced Tuesday. The 35-year-old prolific batsman will join the...

Vietnam warned its people on Tuesday to limit outdoor activities because the air quality in the Southeast Asian country has persistently been at “unhealthy” levels for days. The levels of hazardous small particles known as PM2.5...

Tesla Model 3 remained Norway’s top-selling car in the third quarter, although its sales declined from earlier in the year, registration data showed on Tuesday. Tesla sold 3,300 Model 3s in Norway in July-September, beating Volkswagen’s...

JCI Dhaka United organized the 2019 General Assembly (GA) on the 28th of September 2019 at the Army Golf Club where the Executive Committee of 2020 was declared. Local president for 2019 Khadiza Akter, along with...

Human activity churns out up to 100 times more planet-warming carbon each year as all the volcanoes on Earth, says a decade-long study released Tuesday. The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), a 500-strong international team of scientists,...

Assam’s Dispur Hospitals and ‘The Heart, Sahridoy Gosthi’, a premier non-government organization organized an awareness rally on the occasion of World Heart Day on the streets of Guwahati. Braving the rain in morning hours, over 300...

Visa, the global leader in digital payments technology, announced its plans to launch QR payments in Bangladesh, enabling consumers to link their credit, debit and prepaid cards to their mobile banking apps to ‘scan and pay’...

Police used tear gas, water cannon and live fire to disperse demonstrators in Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding several people as thousands of Iraqis rallied in protest against unemployment, government corruption and poor services. Police initially opened...

The British-led Bloodhound supersonic car is virtually ready to start its high-speed trials. The vehicle is due to leave its Gloucestershire base in the next fortnight to be air freighted to South Africa’s Northern Cape. Bloodhound...