Goyang, Apr 27 (AP/UNB) — After a year of tensions, the first North-South Korea summit in more than a decade began Friday with a handshake.
Month: April 2018
Development prospects for hundreds of millions in jeopardy
By Amina J. Mohammed UN, Apr 24 (IPS) – The global economy is strengthening. A broad-based economic upturn has underpinned progress in many areas.
“Fake news” a growing new threat to press freedom
By Thalif Deen UN, Apr (IPS) – When a Malaysian politician of a bygone era was asked about the “leading newspapers” in his country, he shot back: “We don’t have any leading newspapers in our country because all our newspapers…
Issue gazettee notification on job quota abolition by April
Dhaka, April 26 – Leaders of quota reform movement on Thursday issued an ultimatum to the government for issuing a gazette notification on abolishing the quota system in government job as per the prime minister’s words within April. Otherwise, they…
Faction of pro-AL teachers to besiege JU VC office
Savar (Dhaka), April 26 – A faction of Awami League-leaning teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday launched fresh programs denouncing alleged assault to their fellows during a protest on April 18 and controversial dean-provost appointments. Amid the ongoing demonstrations, former…
Asia’s largest tortoise slowly wins race with Whitley Award
A conservation biologist specialising in reptiles was yesterday (Wednesday 25 April) presented with a prestigious Whitley Award by HRH The Princess Royal. Shahriar Caesar Rahman, Co-Founder of the Creative Conservation Alliance is working to preserve Asia’s largest tortoise in a…
TCB to start OMS of essentials to check price hike
Dhaka, April 26 – The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh or TCB will start selling essential commodities from May 6 in open markets across the country including capital city Dhaka in a bid to keep the prices at tolerable limit ahead…
20 good food reads for Spring
Danielle Nierenberg Food Tank has collected 20 of the best new books in food and agriculture to celebrate spring. Our favorite reads this season cover critical topics including the paradox of obesity and malnutrition, building strong communities through socially-conscious food…
4 Indian citizens held along Sunamganj border
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained four Indian nationals from Chargaon border area in Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj on Thursday morning.
PM leaves for Sydney via Thailand
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who left Dhaka for Sydney on Thursday afternoon on a three-day official visit to Australia at the invitation of her Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull, reached Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand.
56th death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla Friday
The 56th death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq will be observed in the country in a befitting manner tomorrow.
No army deployment in city elections: EC
The Election Commission (EC) today said army will not be deployed in local government elections, including in Gazipur and Khulna city corporation polls scheduled to be held on May 15.
No link between citizenship and passport: DG Passport
In the wake of controversy over Tarique Rahman’s passport, the director general (DG) of the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) on Thursday said there is no connection between ‘citizenship and surrendering a passport’.
‘Mentally challenged son’ kills mother in Joypurhat
Dhaka- A woman was hacked to death allegedly by her ‘mentally challenged son’ at Sagrampur village in Khetlal upazila on Thursday morning.
Memorial to African Americans who were lynching
In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, a place for people who have been held accountable for their crimes and duly expressed remorse.
6 get life term for double murder in Khulna
Dhaka- A court here on Thursday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment in a double murder case in Terokhada upazila in Khulna in 2001.
The insecurity cycle
During the past decade – in the aftermath of the most serious financial and economic crises since the Great Depression – the question of why policy doesn’t always change when it looks like it ought to has been an open…
Lightning kills 4 in 3 dists
Dhaka – Four people, including a woman, were killed in separate lighting strikes in Jamalpur, Jashore and Sirajganj districts on Thursday.
Globalisation: New deal on labour mobility
What do you think is the crisis of globalisation and how did it come about? The crisis is the result of a lot of people not being particularly happy about the way that globalisation has gone. I think it’s rooted…
Olympics Youth Hockey: Mixed day for Bangladesh
Dhaka – Bangladesh’s Youth Hockey team had mixed fortunes Thursday, in the qualifying round of the Youth Olympic Games Hockey in Thailand on Thursday.
EU wants credible polls in Bangladesh
The European Union (EU) at a meeting here hoped that the government of Bangladesh will ensure conditions for credible, transparent and inclusive elections.
Asian Volleyball: Bangladesh play Turkmenistan in final Friday
Dhaka – Defending champions Bangladesh will take on stronger Turkmenistan in the final of the six-nation Bangabandhu Asian Senior Men’s Central Zone International Volleyball Championship at the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium here on Friday afternoon eying to retain the…
Ex-BNP minister M Shamsul Islam dies at 87
Dhaka, April 26 – Former Information Minister M Shamsul Islam died at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 87. Shamsul Islam, also a former BNP standing committee member, breathed his last at United Hospital at 1:40 pm, said his…
Tarique no longer a Bangladesh citizen: Anisul
Dhaka, April 26 – Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman is no longer a Bangladeshi citizen.
BNP slams AL leaders’ India visit
Dhaka, April 26 – BNP on Thursday alleged that a 19-member Awami League delegation went to India as part of the party’s ‘desperate move’ to hold another ‘lopsided’ general election in the country with interference by others.
‘No Bangladeshi killed by Indian BSF this year’
Dhaka, April 26 – Director General (DG) of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) KK Sharma on Thursday said no Bangladeshi national was killed this year along Indo-Bangla border till to date as his force started maintaining non-lethal strategy.
Movement if gazette on job quota not issued by April
Dhaka, April 26 – Bangladesh General Students’ Rights Protection Council, a platform of students that led the recent quota reform movement, on Thursday threatened to a wage tougher movement if the gazette on abolishing the much-talked-about quota system in government…
37 kg gold seized in Chuadanga border
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh seized 320 gold bars weighing around 37 kg from the Mathabhanga River along Nastipur border in Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga on Wednesday noon.
‘Drug dealer’ killed in Munshiganj ‘gunfight’
Dhaka – An accused drug dealer was killed in a reported gunfight between his cohorts and police at Katakhali Haidrabad in the municipality area here in Munshiganj early Thursday.
Missing housewife found dead in B’baria
Dhaka – A housewife, who went missing on Monday, was found dead at a water body in Kahdurail village of Bijoynagar upazila in Brahmanbaria on Wednesday night.