Peshawar, Jun 24 (AP/UNB) – The death toll from twin blasts in the northwestern town of Parachinar climbed to 67 Saturday, bringing the overall death toll from three separate attacks in Pakistan to 85, with several others in critical condition,…
Day: June 24, 2017
4-tier security for National Eidgah
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will ensure 4-tier security at Jatiya Eidgah on the day of Eid-ul Fitr, installing closed-circuit (CC) cameras and setting up archways at every entry point. “All the Musallis (Muslim devotees) will have to go through metal…
Traffic jam on highways toelrable, claims Quader
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday claimed that traffic jams on highways is less this time than that of the last 10 years. “Vehicles are moving slowly on highways but it’s tolerable,” said the minister while talking…
Sufferings of Eid-goers: BNP for Quader’s removal
BNP on Saturday demanded the resignation of Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader for his ‘failure’ to ensure smooth journeys for holidaymakers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. “The sufferings the home-goers facing are indescribable. The minister (Quader) has utterly failed…we think…
Abandoning Rangamati tour was wrong: Gayeswar Roy
BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Saturday said their party senior leaders’ decision to cancel their Rangamati, Chittagong tour after being attacked by ruling party men was not the right one. “I can’t accept the return of our senior…
Over 140 feared buried in China landslide
Chinese rescuers scoured through rocks on Saturday in a frantic search for more than 140 people feared buried after a landslide smashed through a mountain village in southwest Sichuan province. A couple and a baby were rescued and taken to…
Climate change more important than partisan politics: Schwarzenegger
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger urged people from both ends of the political spectrum to join a “crusade” to save the planet, after a Friday meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. “It is absolutely imperative that we not make it…
Eid likely on Monday
The holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims ending Ramadan fasting, will be observed across the country on Monday, if the Shawal moon is sighted tomorrow (Sunday). A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee will be held…
What happens when a presidency loses legitimacy?
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140 people feared buries in China landslide
More than 140 people are feared to have been buried by a landslide in south-west China. The landslide from a nearby mountain engulfed more than 40 homes and a hotel in Xinmo, a village in Sichuan province, at about 6am…
New York newsletter
Iftar Mahfil of America Bangladesh Pressclub New York: The America Bangladesh Pressclub organised an Iftar and Duwa Mahfil at a restaurant in Jackson Heights in New York on Monday 19 June. Organisation’s President Darpan Kabir presided over the event and…
Manipur oil survey hits wall of opposition
Tamenglong June 21: People of Tamenglong have been suffering with the construction of railway tracks for the past 10 years. Now they are going to face another problem – oil exploration. To understand likely impact of oil exploration people gathered…
Suicide bomber blows himself up as Makkah Haram Mosque plot foiled
Riyadh, June 24 (AP/UNB) – A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Grand Mosque at Makkah as police disrupted a plot to target the holiest site in Islam just as the fasting month of Ramadan ends, Saudi security forces…
Over 100 people feared buried by China landslide
Beijing, June 24 (AP/UNB) – A county government in southwestern China says around 100 people from 40 homes are feared buried by a landslide that crashed into their homes.
5 GOP senators oppose health bill enough to sink it
Washington, Jun 24 (AP/UNB) – Nevada Republican Dean Heller became the fifth GOP senator to declare his opposition to the party’s banner legislation to scuttle much of Barack Obama’s health care overhaul on Friday, more than enough to sink the…
Truck plunge kills 16 in Rangpur
Dhaka, Jun 24 – Sixteen people were killed and seven others injured as a cement laden truck fell ino a road-side ditch at Kolabari on Dhaka-Rangpur Highway in Pirganj upazila of Rangpur early Saturday.
Otto Warmbier’s sudden death “a mystery to us too”- North Korea
Oliver Hotham North Korea on Friday denied reports that it had mistreated the former U.S. detainee Otto Warmbier and described his sudden death as a “mystery”, in the country’s first public statement since the announcement of the 22-year-old’s death on…
The world is burning
By IPS World Desk Rome, June 23(IPS) – Record high temperatures are gripping much of the globe and more hot weather are to come. This implies more drought, more food insecurity, more famine and more massive human displacements. In fact,…
Excessive use of arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury…black soils
By IPS World Desk Rome, June 23 (IPS) – Soils are polluted due mostly to human activities that leave excess chemicals in soils used to grow food, the United Nations reports.
BNP slams govt for ‘counter case’ in Fakhrul attack
BNP leader Moudud Ahmed sees an ulterior motive of the government in the counter case that has been filed following attacks on Mirza Fakhrul Islam’s motorcade in Chittagong.
Call to shut Al-Jazeera attack on ‘freedom of expression’
Doha, June 23(BSS/AFP) – Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Friday any move to close it down was an attack on media freedom, following demands by Gulf neighbours for the channel to be taken off air.
Jumatul Wida offered
Dhaka, June 23 – The holy Jumatul Wida, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, was offered on Friday across the country with due religious fervor and solemnity.
Dhaka more expensive than Washington for expats
Dhaka, Jun 23 – Dhaka city is more expensive than Washington, capital of the United States in terms of cost of living for expatriates, according to Mercer’s 2017 Cost of Living Survey.