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Business Report : Grameenphone, the largest mobile phone operator in Bangladesh, logged a Tk 1,338 crore profit in the first quarter of the financial year 2024, riding on reduced net finance costs and foreign exchange gains. The telecom company, the most valued scrip in Bangladesh’s stock market, reported a 72 percent higher profit in the January-March quarter from a year ago, thanks also to reduced income tax expenses, according to its unaudited financial statement posted on its website late on...
AFP, Tokyo : The weak yen is putting pressure on the Bank of Japan to tighten monetary policy, analysts say, although it is not expected to hike its main interest rate when it wraps up a two-day meeting on Friday. With the yen at three-decade lows, speculation has grown that Japan’s government could intervene in forex markets to prop up the currency for the first time since 2022. Early Friday, one dollar bought 155.58 yen, compared with 155.74 the previous...
Entertainment Desk : Noted musician Kamal Ahmed has officially launched a digital archive to preserve and showcase his musical journey, said a press release. Kamal Ahmed, who is mainly a...
Entertainment Report : Indian actress Paoli Dam is set to star in the government-funded movie titled ‘Neel Jochhona’, adapted from Mostak Ahmed’s parapsychology novel titled ‘Neel Jochhonar Jibon’. Portraying the...
Sports Reporter : Dhaka Abahani Limited defeated Sheikh Russel Krira Chakra by a solitary goal in their match of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Football at the Bashundhara Kings Arena in Dhaka on Friday. Reigning champions Bashundhara Kings led the points table gaining 31 points from 12 matches, while Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited took the second position collecting 26 points from 12 matches. Dhaka Abahani Limited are breathing on Mohammead’s neck grabbing 25 points from 13 matches. On the...
AFP, Jakarta : Indonesians celebrated on Friday after their spirited men’s team beat South Korea in the Under-23 Asian Cup quarter-finals in a dramatic penalty shootout, leaving them one step from qualifying for the Olympics for only the second time in history. They defeated their Asian rivals 11-10 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in Doha on Friday. The top three teams will qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, while the fourth place side will face an Asian-African...
Agency : The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced Yuvraj Singh as an ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Ambassador, with 36 days to go until the T20 Cricket event begins. Yuvraj, who famously hit 36 runs in an over during the first ever T20 World Cup in 2007 which he and India ultimately won, will attend a range of exciting World Cup promotional events in the United States in the lead-up to and during the T20 showpiece, including the...
Agency : Rafael Nadal thrashed 16-year-old wild card Darwin Blanch 6-1, 6-0 in the first round of the Madrid Open on Thursday and will face Australian 10th seed Alex de Minaur next. The 22-time Grand Slam champion broke the American at the first opportunity in the second game before grabbing the first set in just 28 minutes. Nadal, who last...
A 17-year-old Indonesian bowler took 7/0 to break the world record for the best individual bowling figures in all T20Is. On her debut, Indonesia’s Rohmalia Rohmalia took seven wickets while conceding zero runs to register the best bowling figures in all T20Is – men’s and women’s. In the fifth T20I of a bilateral series against Mongolia in Bali, teenage off-spinner Rohmalia bowled 20 deliveries, all dot balls, and dismissed seven batters for ducks to achieve the record figures on Thursday....
Campus Life : Jointly organized by the NSU School of Health Science and the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, USA, a certificate course titled “Analytics & Machine Learning Techniques for Maternal and Health Interventions” was held at the NSU campus on 17 July, 2023. The event aimed to explore the applications of machine learning in improving maternal healthcare and brought together renowned experts and professionals in the field.The lead speaker at the event was Dr. Javed Mostafa, an...
Debbie Peterson :The idea that the choices leaders make will carry into...
Campus Report : The UAP Law Orators Debating Club (UAPLODC) is committed to the development of a debating community among the students of the Department of Law and Human Rights at the University of Asia Pacific (UAP). In addition to fostering creativity via debating, the club’s objectives include sharing and critiquing the work of peers; develop excellent oral and written communication skills, excellent critical thinking skills, and effective tools for research, organization and presentation. Debate helps students become more interested...
Campus Desk : Over 20 students of ULAB Radio CampBuzz of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) took part in a workshop on creating successful podcasts.Oleg Dmitriyev, an advisor at the Sputnik International News Agency and Radio, held the latest session of the SputnikPro project for future journalists in the online format, says a press release issued on Sunday.The participants thanked Sputnik for the relevant and diverse content.The students were interested in various issues, such as picking a subject,...
Campus Desk : A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department of Geography and Environment of Dhaka University (DU) and Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) was signed today January 31, 2023 at the VC’s Lounge to share knowledge through research, innovation and training. Vice-Chancellor of DU Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman presided over the signing ceremony. Treasurer of DU Prof. Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed and Secretary General of BDRCS Kazi Shofiqul Azam signed the MoU on behalf of their respective institution. Chairman of...