Fingerprint mismatch glitch hits biometric SIM registration trial
The country’s mobile phone operators on Sunday started piloting biometric verification of SIM registration with a glitch caused by mismatch between the subscribers’ fingerprints taken at their customer centres and those stored in the national identity card database of the Election Commission.
LOCAL ELECTIONS ON PARTISAN BASIS : Only mayor, chairman candidates to contest with party symbols
Stepping back from its previous decision, the government has now decided not to allow councilor and member candidates to contest local body polls with party symbols.
RESCHEDULING LOANS : IMF criticises govt’s policy
The International Monetary Fund has criticised the policy of allowing errant borrowers to reschedule loans, saying such policies only helped in improving the balance sheets of banks artificially.
Dhaka Lit Fest-2015 to kick off Nov 19
The three-day Dhaka Literary Festival-2015 will be held on Bangla Academy premises in November 19-21.
Paris attacks: Suicide bomber identified; ISIS claims responsibility for 129 dead
Authorities in France and Belgium took people into custody Saturday in the aftermath of the worst violence in France since World War II, a series of terror attacks that killed more than 120 people.
Terror in Paris: What we know so far
Parisians woke up Saturday to a full realization of the horror wrought by the terrorist attacks of the previous evening, violence deadlier than anything Paris has experienced since World War II.
Hillary Clinton at Democratic debate: ISIS 'cannot be contained'
In direct contrast with President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton said Saturday that ISIS "cannot be contained" but instead must be "defeated."
Boston Marathon bomb 'victim' admits to scam
A woman who falsely claimed she was injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing pleaded guilty to all charges on Friday, admitting that she purposely lied to receive nearly $40,000 in cash from public agencies and private donors.
U.S. airstrike in Libya kills ISIS lead
The U.S. military on Friday killed the senior ISIS leader in Libya, the Pentagon said. Abu Nabil, an Iraqi national and longtime al Qaeda operative, was taken out in an airstrike authorized and initiated prior to the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night, said Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook.
Thousands of migrant workers to fail MRP deadline on Nov 24
Thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers living abroad are likely to miss the deadline for converting to Machine Readable Passports on November 24, as they are still not enrolled for MRPs at Bangladesh missions abroad, said officials at Dhaka and the missions abroad.
