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July 2023

English education in Old Dhaka

Liaquat Avenue in Sadarghat is jam-packed with countless rickshaws, traders and hawkers, as usual, like any other part of Old Dhaka. In a little open space at the edge of the road, opposite to Jagannath University, stands Krishna Bhattacharya, a well-groomed woman in a simple sari. “Hello! Where are you? Stuck in traffic? I guess you will have to leave your rickshaw and walk,” she phones this correspondent, struggling to make herself heard above the unrelenting blare of horns. bangladeshKrishna Bhattacharya is the principal of HEED Internati...

Women taking charge from top to bottom

Rani Mondal searches the floor of the riverbed with her fingers, craning her neck above the water. The river is home to a farm of clawing crabs. “It hurts a lot when you are bitten but you apply salt and Savlon and go to the doctor’s if it gets septic,” Mondal said. An award-winning crab farmer living on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, she used to be extremely poor. Her village has been battered repeatedly by cyclones, making the ground too salty for large-scale agriculture. [caption id="attachment_20028" align="alignright" width="650"]Rani Mondal (centre) and fellow crab farmers, who work... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

Bangladesh Itineraries; Wellness in Mexico

Most cruises base their appeal on traveling overnight to offer more daytime in port. But Celebrity Cruises is flipping the script on a series of new Caribbean sailings that will include overnight port stays. The company previously announced two such itineraries and is expanding them to a total of 43 sailings in 2016 and 2017. [caption id="attachment_20025" align="alignright" width="540"]-cruise-super The Celebrity Reflection.[/caption] Every Caribbean cruise 10 nights or longer will offer an overnight in port. A special series of optional nighttime ex...

NRBCBank opens ATM Both at Raozan, Ctg

An ATM Both of NRBC Bank was inaugurated at Raozan Branch premises, Chittagong. Vice Chairman of the Bank Mr. Abu Bakr Chowdhury inaugurated the ATM Both recently. ATM Both Raozan BrThe inaugural ceremony was attended, among others, by the Senior Vice President Syed Mahabubul Haque, First Asstt. Vice president  Mr. Md. Aminul Islam and Senior Executive Officer Mr. Md. Nawshad Aziz. A good number of respectable persons and local businessmen were also present on the occasion.

Joint marine research with India

In a first of its kind, India will conduct a joint marine research with Bangladesh in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to understand the ecology of the Bay of Bengal that affects the climatic conditions of the region. A team of scientists from the CSIR’s National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) will head to the Bay of Bengal in October-November along with its Research Vessel (RV) Sindhu Sadhana. bd-indiaThereafter India will also train Bangladeshi scientists in the field. India is also pushing for a joint cooperation in the field of oceanography ...

Nepal to suspend Indian TV channels

Nepal’s cable federation said it would suspend Indian television channels, while protesters marched in Kathmandu carrying an effigy of India’s prime minister on Monday, accusing their neighbour of imposing an economic blockade and meddling in internal politics. The Federation of Nepal Cable Television planned to suspend broadcasting of Indian channels in Nepal from 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Sunil Kumar Lama, the organization’s general secretary, said on Monday. nepalese-student-take“This is to protest against the blockade,” Lama...