Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from Bangkok after a six-day official visit to Thailand.

The flight carrying him landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital at 11:30 am on Monday (April 29).

Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Bangkok on Monday morning (local time).

Sheikh Hasina arrived in Bangkok on the afternoon of April 24 as part of both a bilateral and multilateral visit to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries at the invitation of Thai Prime Minister Sreetha Thavisin.

Sheikh Hasina was given a red carpet welcome upon her arrival at Don Mueang International Airport, where she was given a 19-gun salute and a guard of honor.

A court has granted a one-day remand to two employees of Medi Graphic Trading Ltd in a case of embezzlement and damage caused by forging tenders of the Directorate General of Defence Procurement. The accused taken on remand are Md. Rabiul Karim (45) and Shantanu Kumar Das (46).

The accused were produced in court from the jail on Monday (April 29). Then, a hearing was held on the application filed by the investigation officer, Gulshan Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Bilal Al Azad, on April 24, to take the accused on a five-day remand. On that day, the lawyers applied for bail for the accused. After the hearing, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farah Diba Chanda rejected the bail of the accused and granted a one-day remand.

On April 24, the investigating officer of the case presented the accused in court and applied for a five-day remand for the sake of a fair investigation of the case. On the other hand, the accused applied for the remand to be canceled and bail was sought. Hearing both sides, the court rejected the bail of the accused and ordered to send them to jail. At the same time, it fixed April 29 for the remand hearing.

Police Sub-Inspector Shah Alam, an officer of the General Registration Branch of Gulshan Police Station, confirmed this information in court.

According to the complaint, according to the employment rules of the company (Medi Graphic Trading Ltd.), no employee can work in the business of similar products or in any other organization while employed. The company has been working as the sole distributor of Japanese companies Fuji Film and Shimadzu for a long time. Accused No. 1, namely Md. Rabiul Karim, was instructed to conduct official activities in the Directorate General of Defense Procurement, Ministry of Defense on behalf of the company. On April 1, the company came to know through a show cause notice from the Directorate General of Defense Procurement, Ministry of Defense that while employed in the company, accused No. 1 participated in a tender for another organization called The Creative International with the aim of defrauding and embezzling government money by concealing information from government organizations. And signed as the CEO and managing partner of that organization. He is also associated with another organization called Technology International. From the show cause notice, the company learned that the second accused, Shantanu Kumar Das, has been doing such illegal activities for a long time as a business partner of the accused Rabiul. The accused Rabiul fraudulently issued a letter from the Directorate General of Defence Procurement on April 13, using a forged company letterhead and a forged signature, stating that he was the company's representative.

By concealing information, accused No. 1 embezzled a huge amount of money from his personal and the company named The Creative International Medi Graphic Company and the accused acquired many properties anonymously under different names. Although they were employed in the company with a small salary. Through illegal acquisition, accused Rabiul became the owner of 4 luxurious flats in Dhaka, a garden house in Rangpur, and 50 bighas of land in Natore. When the accused were asked for the account of the sale of goods, they failed to provide the account. Accused Shantanu illegally and illegally embezzled the company's money through various forgeries and frauds and deposited a large amount of money in the bank anonymously.

The accused participated in the tender in the name of The Creative International and embezzled money from Medi Graphic Trading Ltd. by creating fake documents showing the full cost. From December 22, 2021 to April 1, 2024, they embezzled about twenty crore taka from Medi Graphic Trading Ltd. and caused a business loss of about thirty crore taka.

In this incident, Medi Graphic's admin officer Sheikh Zakir Hossain filed a case with Gulshan Police Station as the plaintiff. In the case, the accused were charged with forgery with the intention of defrauding, using forged documents, embezzling company funds and causing damage.

The Ministry of Education has announced the closure of schools in a total of 25 districts, including Khulna, 16 districts of Rajshahi division, 6 districts of Dhaka division, 2 districts in Rangpur and one district in Barisal, on Tuesday (April 30) due to severe heatwave.

Abul Khair, public relations officer of the Ministry of Education, gave this information on Monday (April 29).

Abul Khair said that due to the ongoing heat wave in the country, in consultation with the Meteorological Department, all secondary schools, colleges, madrasas and technical educational institutions in all districts of Khulna and Rajshahi divisions, Dhaka, Tangail, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, Gazipur and Manikganj districts of Dhaka division, Kurigram and Dinajpur districts of Rangpur division and Patuakhali district of Barisal division will be closed tomorrow (April 30).

The districts of Khulna division are Jessore, Satkhira, Meherpur, Narail, Chuadanga, Kushtia, Magura, Khulna district. The districts of Rajshahi division are Rajshahi, Natore, Naogaon, Chapainawabganj, Pabna, Sirajganj, Bogra and Joypurhat.

Meanwhile, the High Court has ordered the closure of classes in primary and secondary schools and madrasas until May 2 amid the ongoing heat wave. However, the order states that this order will not apply to schools that have AC facilities or where exams are ongoing, as well as to O Level, A Level exams, and colleges and universities.

While primary schools were declared closed until Thursday in compliance with the High Court's directive, secondary, vocational, madrasa and college levels were declared closed only until Tuesday.

Meanwhile, no one in charge of the Ministry of Education agreed to comment on the High Court's directive. However, public relations officer Abul Khair suggested talking about it at the ministerial or secretary level. However, no statement was received from the Education Minister, State Minister, or Secretary.

An additional secretary, on condition of anonymity, told Dhaka Post that the High Court is saying that the school will remain closed until Thursday, but Wednesday is May 1. It is a public holiday for International Workers' Day. Tuesday is closed and Wednesday is a public holiday. If the weather conditions improve, the school will be closed for one day instead of declaring a continuous closure on Thursday. In the meantime, if the weather conditions improve, the school will be opened from Thursday. And if a continuous closure is declared or the holiday is canceled, there will be more criticism.

Yesterday (Sunday), the Ministry of Education announced in a message that all secondary schools, colleges, madrasas and technical educational institutions in Dhaka, Chuadanga, Jessore, Khulna and Rajshahi districts will remain closed on Monday (April 29) due to the ongoing heat wave. The ministry said that this decision was taken in consultation with the Ministry of Health and the Meteorological Department. However, educational institutions that have air-conditioning systems can remain open if they wish.

Earlier, all educational institutions across the country opened on Sunday after a total of 1 month and 3 days of holidays, including seven days due to Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr and intense heat. However, secondary schools, madrasas and technical institutions were declared closed on Sunday due to injuries to students and teachers in many parts of the country.

Awami League General Secretary and Bridge Minister Obaidul Quader said, I don't think BNP is a democratic party. There is no precedent for democracy in their history. They have killed democracy, turned it into a farce. They never obeyed the democratic rules even within the party.

He said these things after paying tributes at the tomb of Sher Bangla AK Fazlul Haque on the occasion of his 62nd death anniversary on Saturday morning.

Obaidul Quader said, BNP does not consider the people as the main issue to gain power by slavery. Slavery of foreign masters can go to power? Still their predicament is how to go to power by enslaving foreign masters?

He also said, they talk big, when did they have a party council? Where did they party council? 7-8 years ago there was a central committee meeting at La Méridien. Jambujet Marka Committee of 501 people belongs to them. Therefore, we do not expect those who do not have democracy within their own party to establish democracy in the country.

Regarding Sher Bangla AK Fazlul Haque, Obaidul Quader said that national leader Sher Bangla was one of the people who took politics to common people in this country. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman inspired the common people with the mantra of freedom. The farmers of rural Bengal will never forget Shere Bangla. He will forever be remembered among them. He is still remembered for protecting usurer moneylenders from tyranny by forming the Debt Arbitration Board.

Obaidul Quader also said, today our commitment is to form the non-communal Bangladesh of Bangabandhu, Suhrawardy, Maulana Bhasani, Sher Bangla AK Fazlul Haque. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, we are fighting to build a humane and non-communal Bangladesh. That is the dream of Sheree Bangla AK Fazlul Haque and that is our pledge today.

Awami League's central executive meeting is being held on Tuesday. The meeting will begin at 7 pm at Ganabhaban, the official residence of the Prime Minister. It will be chaired by Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The party sources said that the meeting will discuss the conflicts between the parties around the upcoming upazila elections. In particular, there will be the issue of candidates for the relatives of ministers-MPs and leaders in the upazila elections, ignoring the party instructions and trying to spread influence. As a result, the meeting is supposed to decide and decide the strategy to resolve the conflict at the grass root level.

Apart from this, other organizational issues of the party as well as the latest socio-economic, political issues will be discussed and decided. The program of various national and party days will also be finalized in the meeting.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader in a statement requested the party's central executive members to attend the meeting.

The Awami League MPs and ministers concerned are facing a lot of trouble for running their relatives in the upazila elections without heeding the instructions. The sword of organizational punishment is coming down on them. Their party positions and titles may be taken away. They may even not get the party's nomination in the next parliamentary elections. Ministers who do not heed the party's strong message may be dropped from the cabinet at any time.

Relatives of several Awami League MPs are contesting the upazila elections without following the party's instructions. Party General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has spoken to the concerned MPs to remove them from the elections. However, he did not budge! Not a single MPO has withdrawn their relatives from the voting field. There has been a negative reaction within the party regarding this.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that the leaders of the terrorist group BNP are trying to play the 'sympathy card' by showing themselves tortured and oppressed. By abandoning the politics of public welfare, BNP is getting weaker and weaker day by day.

He said these things in a statement on Monday. Obaidul Quader condemned and protested the recent statement of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as 'politically motivated'. He said that BNP as a political party is not able to add any new dimension to mass politics. Therefore, the party's general secretary Mirza Fakhrul is regularly singing the same song in the media; Constantly making false and baseless arrests of torture and torture. They are adopting this tactic for the failure of giving any political program for the people.

Hacking is considered a bad thing. However, good things can also be done through hacking. Many big organizations employ hackers. If you want, hacking can also be taken as a profession. Tamjid Rahman Leo says
Hacker. Hearing the word brings up a negative thought in many people's minds. This hacker is like the terror of the internet world. Around 1960, the word hacking was used only among engineering students. At that time, 'hacking' meant making a system or machine more effective in some way. However, now most people understand hacking as causing damage to something in the internet world. In fact, hacking is not only bad things in the cyber world, it has negative sides as well as positive sides. Those who hack for good purposes are called 'ethical hackers', and those who hack to cause harm are called 'unethical hackers'. Sadly, the number of unethical hackers in the world is much higher than ethical hackers. Because many young people are getting involved in cyber crimes while practicing hacking as a hobby. Every year, many organizations are facing losses worth crores of rupees due to this crime alone. All very important confidential documents are being stolen. Due to the high level of crime, once caught, the rest of the lives of these young hackers are ruined.

But many people are unaware that it is also possible to earn a good amount of money through legal hacking or ethical hacking.

Job as an ethical hacker

The number of cyber attacks in the technology world is now higher than ever. Not only small organizations, but also large and well-known organizations, and even government organizations are not exempt from cyber attacks. There have been incidents of data theft from large organizations like NASA, the US Army, HBO, NSA, Uber, Equifax, and Accenture. In addition, multiple ransomware have also spread to many countries. To protect their organizations from these, large government and private organizations around the world are hiring ethical hackers or cybersecurity experts. According to a report by Global Knowledge, ethical hackers or cybersecurity experts are the second highest paid in the IT sector worldwide. The demand for ethical hackers or cybersecurity experts is also increasing day by day in Bangladesh.

Bug Bounty

Bug bounty is a program through which various government and private organizations reward independent cybersecurity researchers from all over the world through various platforms in exchange for finding vulnerabilities in their cybersecurity. There are various small organizations; as well as large organizations like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, NASA, Intel, Uber, Netflix, HP, etc., depend on bug bounty platforms for their cybersecurity. Depending on the type of security flaw or bug, the organizations offer bounties ranging from a minimum of $50 to a maximum of $250,000 per report in addition to gifts. In this case, the bug reporter has to submit bug reports by following certain procedures or rules, and if the platforms do anything illegal or unethical, it is not suitable for the bounty.

Reasons for paying the bounty
Hacking cannot be learned only institutionally, it is like an art. How strong a hacker is depends entirely on his skills, thinking power and creativity. Therefore, even if an organization hires paid ethical hackers, it cannot be completely safe. All the renowned organizations in the world have their own cybersecurity and incident response teams. Despite this, there is a common thing in the cyber world that no system is 100% secure. For this reason, organizations do not rely only on their own teams but invite white hat hackers from all over the world through various platforms to expose their cybersecurity flaws.

Bug bounty platform

Bounty organizations offer bounties to hackers through various web platforms in addition to their own websites. On these platforms, they state their requirements, as well as a list of how much dollars they will pay as a bounty for a type of bug. Not only that, but there are also clear instructions on which types of bugs are not covered by the bounty. Popular platforms among hackers are:
HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Synack, Detectify, Cobalt, Open Bug Bounty, Zerocopter, YesWeHack, HackenProof, Vulnerability Lab, FireBounty, BugBounty Japan, Antihack, Intigriti, SafeHats, RedStorm, Cyber Army, Yogosha|
The best bug bounty programs of the year

Microsoft

Microsoft officially launched their bug bounty program on September 23, 2014. They only offer bounties for critical and critical bugs. In this program, they offer bounties ranging from a minimum of $15,000 to a maximum of $250,000. Microsoft offers the highest bounties in bug bounty programs.

Apple

When Apple first launched its bug bounty program, it only allowed 24 security researchers to participate. Later, Apple opened its bounty program to everyone. Although Apple doesn't have a specific amount for bounty payments, they have paid out bounties of up to $200,000.

Facebook

Facebook's bug bounty program allows security researchers to report security vulnerabilities in Instagram, Atlas, and WhatsApp. While their minimum bounty is $500, the interesting thing is that they have no maximum bounty limit. They are willing to pay any amount based on the type of bug.

Google

Blogger and YouTube are also included in Google's bounty program. They only offer bounties for five types of bugs. Google offers bounties ranging from a minimum of $300 to a maximum of $31,000.

Yahoo
Yahoo has been repeatedly hacked and has set up a separate team to run its bug bounty program. The main task of this team is to thoroughly examine the bug reports sent by security researchers and understand how much damage these bugs can cause. There is no minimum amount for Yahoo's bounty program, but they offer bounties up to a maximum of $15,000. It is a matter of joy that a security researcher from Bangladesh has also received their highest bounty for finding a very important bug in Yahoo.

Uber

Popular ride-sharing service Uber has launched a bounty program to protect the information of its users and employees. While there is no set minimum bounty, they offer a maximum bounty of up to $10,000.

Avast
Antivirus company Avast offers bounties to security researchers for finding security vulnerabilities in various categories. Bounties ranging from a minimum of $400 to a maximum of $10,000 are available through their program. They run this bounty program on their own website.
Twitter
Twitter offers rewards ranging from $140 to $15,000 for reporting cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The company runs its bounty program through HackerOne, a popular bug bounty platform.

ঘরে বসে বাড়তি আয়ের প্রলোভন দেখিয়ে ডিজিটাল প্রতরণায় সক্রিয় হয়েছে বেশ কিছু চক্র। অনলাইনে আয়ের কথা বলে যারা মূলত গ্রাহকদের টাকা হাতিয়ে নিচ্ছে। সম্প্রতি এদের তৎপরতা বেড়েছে। অপরাধী সনাক্তে সাইবার ক্রাইম ইউনিটকে শক্তিশালী করছে পুলিশ। বিশেষজ্ঞরা বলছেন, অনলাইন প্রতরণার কবল থেকে বাঁচতে সাধারণ মানুষকেও সচেতন হতে হবে।

জ্যেষ্ঠ প্রতিবেদকবিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম

ড্রিমলাইনার-৭৮৭ মডেলের উড়োজাহাজ নিয়ে নির্মাতা কোম্পানিটির সাবেক প্রকৌশলীর উত্থাপিত কারিগরি ত্রুটির বিষয়ে বোয়িং কোম্পানির সঙ্গে দ্রুত কথা বলতে বিমান বাংলাদেশকে নির্দেশ দিয়েছেন বেসামরিক বিমান পরিবহন ও পর্যটনমন্ত্রী মুহাম্মদ ফারুক খান।

শনিবার রাষ্ট্রায়ত্ত এয়ারলাইন্স বিমানের ব্যবস্থাপনা পরিচালক ও প্রধান নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা শফিউল আজিমের সঙ্গে টেলিফোনে আলাপকালে তিনি এ নির্দেশনা দেন।

বেসামরিক বিমান পরিবহন ও পর্যটন মন্ত্রণালয়ের সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে এ নির্দেশনার বিষয়ে সংবাদমাধ্যমকে জানানো হয়।

তবে বিমান বাংলাদেশের বহরে থাকা যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের উড়োজাহাজ নির্মাতা কোম্পানি বোয়িংয়ের ড্রিমলাইনার উড়োজাহাজগুলো নতুন হওয়ায় উত্থাপিত কারিগরি সমস্যা নিয়ে আতঙ্কিত হওয়ার কিছু নেই বলে আশ্বস্ত করেন ফারুক খান।

বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে বড় উড়োজাহাজ নির্মাতা বোয়িংয়ের সাবেক প্রকৌশলী স্যাম সালেহপৌর ‘৭৮৭ ড্রিমলাইনার’ ত্রুটিপূর্ণ দাবি করে সেগুলো না উড়িয়ে আবার নিরাপত্তা পরীক্ষার জন্য গ্রাউন্ডেড করার পরামর্শ দেন। তার ব্ক্তব্য নিয়ে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের সংবাদমাধ্যম এনবিসি নিউজে খবর প্রকাশ হলে তা বিশ্বজুড়ে আলোচনা তৈরি করে।