Dhaka, Oct 11 (UNB) – Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Friday warned the BNP against attempts to create disorder in its demonstration programmes from Saturday.
Month: October 2019
Beijing sets new high for horticultural expos
After six months of dazzling visitors with stunning horticultural displays, Expo 2019 Beijing, the AIPH approved A1 World Horticultural Expo, presented one final spectacular show at its official closing ceremony on Wednesday 9th October 2019.
For some in Kashmir marriage equates to sexual slavery
By Umar Manzoor Shah Srinagar, Oct 11 2019 (IPS) – Haseena Akhtar was only 13 when an agent told her parents that they could earn a good amount of money by letting her marry a Kashmiri man. The man was,…
আইএবি সিনিয়র যুগ্ম মহাসচিব অধ্যাপক এটিএম হেমায়েত উদ্দিনের ইন্তেকাল
পীর সাহেব চরমোনাইসহ জাতীয় নেতৃবৃন্দের শোক ইসলামী আন্দোলন বাংলাদেশ-এর সিনিয়র যুগ্ম মহাসচিব বর্ষিয়ান রাজনীতিবিদ অধ্যাপক হাফেজ মাওলানা এটিএম হেমায়েত উদ্দিন (৬৩) আজ সকাল ১০.৪০মি. রাজধানীর পশ্চিম রাজাবাজারস্থ নিজ বাসভবনে ইন্তেকাল করেছেন। ইন্না লিল্লাহি ওয়াইন্না ইলাইহি রাজিউন। তিনি দীর্ঘদিন ফুসফুসে ক্যান্সারে…
Mayors vow to work together with youth climate activists
C40 Cities will create a Global Youth Initiative, bringing together leaders of climate movements from all over the world, to work with mayors Announcement comes out of several days of collaboration at C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark…
U-21 Hockey: Bangladesh register 2-0 win over Oman
Dhaka – Bangladesh U-21 hockey team registered a 2-0 win over touring Oman U-21 hockey team by 2-0 in the third match of Walton five-match practice series at Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium here on Friday.
Bangladesh-India first T20 match abandoned
Dhaka — The first T20 of the three-match series between Bangladesh Women’s A and the touring India Women’s A was abandoned due to rain at Sheikh Kamal International Stadium in Cox’s Bazar on Friday.
Bangladesh team reach Kolkata Friday afternoon
Dhaka – Bangladesh National Football team reached the capital of India’s West Bengal state Kolkata on Friday afternoon (4 pm) to play their away match of the joint Qualification (Round-1) for FIFA World Cup 2022 and AFC Asian Cup 2023…
Sr Div Football: Bangladesh Boys Club beat Jatrabari KC 1-0
Dhaka – Bangladesh Boys Club beat Jatrabari Krira Chakra by 1-0 goal in their match of TVS Senior Division Football League at Kamalapur Stadium here on Friday. Pronoy Chakma netted the match-winner in the 83rd minute.In the next match, PWD…
Bashundhara Kings, Dhaka Abahani in Group B
Dhaka – Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) champions Bashundhara Kings and runners-up Dhaka Abahani Ltd have been placed in the four-team Group B of the Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup Football Tournament scheduled for October 19-30 at the MA Aziz Stadium…
FIFA bans Afghan official over sexual abuse scandal
Zurich, Oct 11 (AP/UNB) — FIFA says a soccer official from Afghanistan has been banned for five years after failing to report allegations that female players were sexually abused.
Moudud slams govt for deals with India
Dhaka, Oct 11 (UNB) – BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed on Friday said the signing of bilateral documents with India regarding the use of Chattogram and Mongla ports and a Coastal Surveillance System is tantamount to selling the country’s…
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace Prize
Dhaka, Oct 11 (UNB)- The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, reports BBC.
Abrar killing: Home Minister slams Buet administration
Dhaka, Oct 11 (UNB)- Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Friday said incidents like Abrar killing might not have occurred had the Buet administration been a little more careful.
Buet bans student politics: Abrar murder response
Dhaka, Oct 11 (UNB)- Buet Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Saiful Islam on Friday afternoon announced a ban on all kind of organisational student politics on the campus.
Turkey says 174 ‘terrorists’ killed in offensive
Beirut, Oct 10 (AP/UNB) — Turkey’s Defense Ministry says 174 “terrorists” have been “neutralized” in its cross-border military offensive, referring to Syrian Kurdish fighters.
Juba League leader stabbed to death in Feni
Feni, Oct 11 – A Juba League activist was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Fajilpur in Sadar Upazila on Thursday night.
Another dies ‘after taking liquor’ in Khulna, toll 9
Khulna, Oct 11 – A man died ‘after taking excessive liquor’ at Khulna Medical College Hospital on Thursday night.
Iran women attend FIFA football game for first time in decades
Tehran, Oct 11(AP/UNB) — They had to sit well apart from the men, and the stadium was practically empty, but thousands of Iranian women in merry jester hats and face paint blew horns and cheered Thursday at the first FIFA…
Reform WTO, resist protectionism: C’wealth trade ministers
London, 10 October 2019 – Trade ministers from across the Commonwealth today made a commitment to resist all forms of protectionism, and to work urgently together towards reforming the World Trade Organisation, which sets the global rules for international trade.
Girls take up the fight for a better world: UN experts
Dhaka, Oct 10 (UNB) – UN human rights experts have applauded the energy and sense of urgency, as well as courage and intellect, that girls and young women have brought to recognizing and confronting many of today’s struggles from climate…
BD software export to fetch $5 billion by 2021: Minister
Dhaka, Oct 10 (UNB) – Mentioning that Bangladesh earned US$1 billion from software export in 2018, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar on Thursday expressed the hope that the export earnings will reach US$5 billion by 2021.
Deals with India govt’s futile efforts to stay in power: BNP
Dhaka, Oct 10 (UNB) – BNP on Thursday alleged that the government signed ‘anti-state’ bilateral documents with India as part of its ‘abortive’ efforts to stay in power by appeasing the ‘powerful’ neighbour.
2 Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe’s fault lines
Stockholm, OC T 11 (AP/UNB) — Nobel Prizes for literature were awarded Thursday to two writers enmeshed in Europe’s social and political fault lines: a liberal Pole who has irked her country’s conservative government and an Austrian accused by many…
Abrar’s mother Rokeya, dumbfounded ‘can’t lose another son’
Kushtia, Oct 10 (UNB) – The horrific murder of Buet student Abrar stunned the country, yet in the midst of unspeakable misery, his mother is now forced to worry over the fate of her younger, now only surviving son.
3 killed, 3 others injured as truck overturns in Gazipur
Gazipur, Oct 11 (UNB) – Three people were killed and three others injured as a truck overturned on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Garzaria Masterbari area in Sreepur upazila on Thursday night.
Diplomats’ words on Buet murder uncalled for: Minister
Dhaka, Oct 10 (UNB)- Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said statements from the foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka on Abrar Fahad murder are uncalled for.
Climate change activist climbs on plane, others stop traffic
London, OC T 11 (AP/UNB) — Protesters in New York City brought traffic to a standstill in the city’s busiest hub and an activist in London climbed atop a plane as climate change demonstrators entered the fourth day of rallies…
ঢাকা আহ্ছানিয়া মিশন কারাগারে মানসিক স্বাস্থ্য দিবস পালন করে
ঢাকা আহ্ছানিয়া মিশনের স্বাস্থ্য সেক্টরের উদ্যোগে রাগারে মানসিক স্বাস্থ্য দিবস পালিত ১০ই অক্টোবর বিশ্ব মানসিক স্বাস্থ্য দিবস। এবারের প্রতিপাদ্য -“মানসিক স্বাস্থ্যের উন্নয়ন ও আত্মহত্যা প্রতিরোধ”। দিবসটি উদযাপন উপলক্ষে ঢাকা আহ্ছানিয়া মিশনের স্বাস্থ্য সেক্টর কর্তৃক বাস্তবায়িত ও জিআইজেড বাংলাদেশ এর কারিগরি…
সম্মিলিত সামাজিক আন্দোলনের মানববন্ধন অনুষ্ঠিত
১০ অক্টোবর ২০১৯ – বুয়েটের ছাত্র আবরার ফাহাদ হত্যার দ্রæত বিচার ও মাননীয় প্রধানমন্ত্রীর ঘোষিত চলমান শুদ্ধি কার্যক্রমের সাথে দুর্নীতিবাজ ও অসৎ ব্যক্তিদের বিরুদ্ধে কঠোর ব্যবস্থা গ্রহণের দাবিতে সম্মিলিত সামাজিক আন্দোলনের উদ্যোগে আজ বেলা সাড়ে ৩টায় জাতীয় প্রেসক্লাবের সামনে মানববন্ধন…