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    Former Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor and head of the probe body formed to investigate central bank heist Mohammad Farashuddin yesterday blamed the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) for the cyber heist of Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves kept at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “The authorities at SWIFT are responsible for the theft of the Bangladesh Bank reserves. The concerned central bank officials have also been negligent. The Federal Reserve Bank also cannot evade responsibility,” Farashuddin said.“Either Pakistani or North Korean hackers have used malware to steal USD 101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank,” he added. The malware was installed in the server of Bangladesh’s central bank for ...

Dr Nowsheen Sharmin Purabi: Recently a research report shows that, in most of the mosquito coils consumed in Bangladesh contain active ingredient more than acceptable standard rate. As per World Health Organisation, qualities of a good standard coil is safety for human health as well as domestic animals. The highest quantity of applicable insecticide per square meter is also determined by the organisation. But the mosquito coils consumed in Bangladesh are being manufactured and marketed without the compliance with standard criteria and mixing excessive poisonous ingredients. How do we come to the contact of poisonous chemical ingredients? The smoke of the coil withers away and mixes with the air of the house where we breath. They are being mixed with the dusts of home. We swallow them alon...