Banglalink celebrates Fathers’ Day
With the approach of fathers’ Day, Banglalink, one of the leading digital communication service providers, has come forward with an offer to give its customers a chance to celebrate this precious bond and win exciting prizes on the occasion of this year’s Father’s Day. Banglalink “Father’s Day win a luxurious Car Contest” is giving customers a golden opportunity to win a brand new Toyota VITZ Car for his/her father. The contest will last from 6th June to 15th July 2016.
To participate in the SMS-based quiz contest users have to dial *6368*1# and subscribe into Happycell WAP service. Upon registration, users will receive questions via SMS related to Father’s day and by answering participants can earn points. Each right answer will carry 2
Teaching on safe digital lifestyle for UCEP students
Robi has recently organized another “Internet4U” session with the UCEP students under its Corporate Responsibility (CR) initiatives. Around 100 students and their faculty members took part in the engaging session. The UCEP students were provided with a clear guideline on safe digital lifestyle in the session.
Internet4U is Robi’s signature CR initiative where discussion takes place on the potential of internet to improve our lives. It is very encouraging to see the interest that has been generated around the use of internet among the youth in our society. However, concerns are being raised 
Eminent citizens stress good governance for SDGs
Good governance a must for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals for creating a participatory and inclusive society with the global motto of leaving no one behind, prominent citizens said on Saturday.
They said this at a press briefing on formation of Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh in Dhaka, reports the New Age.
‘The state has been taking law in its own hand ignoring everything,’ Transparency International Bangladesh chairperson Sultana Kamal said at the programme.
Sh...
Sh...
South Asia continues to remain polio free: WHO
The South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), comprising of 11 countries including Bangladesh, continues to remain polio free since the last case was reported in West Bengal, India, in January 2011.
All countries in the Region continue to maintain a very high vigil for poliovirus detection and environmental surveillance - collection of samples from sewage - is being conducted regularly 
in India, said a WHO statement today.
It said prompt and adequate response to vaccine-derived polio viruses (VDPVs) detect...
in India, said a WHO statement today.
It said prompt and adequate response to vaccine-derived polio viruses (VDPVs) detect...
Dahala Khagrabari!
Dahala Khagrabari is a geopolitical anomaly. It's a piece of India that until very recently was completely surrounded by a piece of Bangladesh, which itself was completely surrounded by India, which was again completely surrounded by Bangladesh.
An enclave is a piece of one country's territory which is entirely surrounded by another country's territory, and the India-Bangladesh border was filled with them before 2015, when they were eliminated by a treaty between the two countries. A second-order enclave is an enclave inside an enclave, and the world has a handful of them. But in the history of the world 
‘Hack the Pentagon’ reveals 138 security flaws
Hackers invited by the US government as part of a pilot program to find flaws with five Pentagon websites discovered 138 security vulnerabilities, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.
The “Hack the Pentagon” event, the first “bug bounty” in the history of the federal government, attracted 1,410 computer-savvy Americans, according to the Defense Department. The program cost $150,000, with about half of that going to hackers, reports AFP.
“It’s not a small sum, but if we had gone through the normal process of hiring an outside firm to 
