Manikganj, Feb 23 – Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River resumed after three and a half hours of disruption caused by dense fog on Saturday morning. “The ferry services were disrupted from 4:30 am due to poor…
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Saudi King, Crown Prince condole deaths in Old Dhaka fire
Dhaka, Feb 22 – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud have offered condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the tragic…
India to stop share of water flowing to Pak: Nitin Gadkari
New Delhi: India has decided to fully utilise its share of unused water from rivers Ravi, Beas and Sutlej that has been flowing into Pakistan, Union minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted on Thursday, a week after a suicide bomber of Jaish-e…
M’singh, Khulna gunfights: 2 suspected drug traders killed
Dhaka, Feb – Two suspected drug traders were killed in ‘gunfights’ between their cohorts and police in Mymensingh and Khulna districts early Friday. In Mymensingh, Abdur Rashid,50, a listed drug trader, was killed in a ‘gunfight’ between police and his…
IBBL holds Business Development Confce for Agent Banking
Dhaka, Feb 21 – Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organized a business development conference for agent banking at a hotel in the city on Wednesday, 20 February 2019. Professor Md. Nazmul Hassan, Ph.D, Chairman of the Bank inaugurated the daylong conference…
Kidney awareness society gives free service to poor patients
Dhaka, Feb 21 – At least 3000 poor patients have received free health consultancy, medicine and laboratory tests from specialist Doctors in a free medical camp, organized by voluntary organization KAMPS on Thursday. Aiming to pay tribute to the language…
Parliamentary control of Brexit is easier said than done
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust A frequent criticism of the Prime Minister is that she prematurely triggered the Article 50 negotiations in March 2017 and did so without a realistic plan for their conduct. If she had waited…
Iran’s Islamic Revolution at 40 – aiming at New World Order
By Firoz Osman Forty years ago a momentous event took place when the Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty, installed by the CIA, fled Iran, ushering in the Iranian Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on February 1, 1979. Western…
কাশ্মিরে নির্যাতন বন্ধে ঐক্যবদ্ধ হতে হবে – চরমোনাই পীর
ভারতের কাশ্মিরে নির্যাতন ও ধর্ষণের সংবাদে গভীর উদ্বেগ ও ক্ষোভ প্রকাশ করেছেন ইসলামী আন্দোলন বাংলাদেশ-এর আমীর মুফতী সৈয়দ মুহাম্মদ রেজাউল করীম পীর সাহেব চরমোনাই। বুধবার এক বিবৃতিতে তিনি কাশ্মিরে নির্যাতন বন্ধে বিশ্বমুসলিমকে ঐক্য গড়ে তোলার আহ্বান জানান। তিনি বলেন, মুসলমানদের…
Bd NGO Network for Radio and Com projects get recognition
The Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)’s two projects have been recognized as the Champions of the prestigious UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes contest 2019. Projects are; Climate justice and resilience through Community Radio…
Poor quality employment a major challenge says ILO
Geneva (Kanaga Raja) – A majority of the 3.3 billion people employed globally in 2018 experienced a lack of material well-being, economic security, equal opportunities or scope for human development, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has found. In its latest…
Container-based sanitation: one way to reach the last mile
Submitted by Clementine Marie Stip On Tue, 02/19/2019 co-authors: Seema Thomas, Martin Gambrill Cities are growing at unprecedented rates, with over two-thirds of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050 (UN DESA 2018), and city governments…
Austrian FM Karin Kneissl pays tribute to language martyrs
Dhaka, Feb 20 – Austria wants to boots its bilateral cooperation with Bangladesh in various sectors especially in trade and investment, technology transfer and start a direct international flight between Dhaka and Vienna. Visiting Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl on…
Three suspected drug traders killed in ‘gunfights’
Dhaka, Feb 20 – Three suspected drug traders were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ in the capital, Cox’s Bazar and Benapole early Wednesday. Of them, two ‘drug traders’ were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and…
যুগ-চাহিদা অনুযায়ী মাদরাসা সিলেবাসকে ঢেলে সাজাতে হবে
দারুল উলূম দেওবন্দের সিলেবাস রাসূল সা. এর মিশনকে সামনে রেখে প্রণয়ন করা হয়েছে। ফলে এ সিলেবাসের মাধ্যমে যুগে যুগে অসংখ্য যুগশ্রেষ্ঠ ব্যক্তিত্ব সৃষ্টি হয়েছে। তবে সময়ের পরিবর্তনে দেওবন্দের সিলেবাসের মূল বিষয়াদি ঠিক রেখে কওমী মাদরাসার শিক্ষা সিলেবাসে সংযোজন ও বিয়োজন…
ডাকসু নির্বাচনে ইশা ছাত্র আন্দোলনের মনোনয়নপত্র সংগ্রহ
আসন্ন ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় কেন্দ্রীয় ছাত্র সংসদ (ডাকসু) নির্বাচন ২০১৯ এ মনোনয়ন পত্র সংগ্রহ করে ইসলামী শাসনতন্ত্র ছাত্র আন্দোলন । র্দীঘ ২৯ বছর পর অনুষ্ঠিতব্য ডাকসু নির্বাচনের মনোনয়ন পত্র বিতরণরে প্রথম দিনইে ইসলামী শাসনতন্ত্র ছাত্র আন্দোলন সর্মথিত ভিপি পদে বিশ্বর্ধম ও…
Dhaka Land Acquisition Officer sent to jail
Dhaka, Feb 19 – Land acquisition officer of Dhaka Deputy Commissioner’s office and six others were yesterday sent to the jail in five cases filed against them for misappropriating Tk 2 crore making forged documents. The accused persons are Land…
Shipping Ex-Chief Engineer indicted
Dhaka, Feb 19 – Former Department of Shipping Chief Engineer Dr SM Nazmul Haque was on Tuesday indicated in a graft case. Judge of Special Judge Court-6 Dr Sheikh Golam Mambub passed an order to frame charge sheet against SM…
Vigilante ‘Cow Protection’ groups attack minorities
Authorities Should End Communal Rhetoric, Prosecute Assailants New York – The Indian government should prevent and prosecute mob violence by vigilante groups targeting minorities in the name of so-called cow protection, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.…
Former rice farmer praises vitamin A orange sweet potatoes
Angella Atero, Nutrition, Communication, and Advocacy Specialist, Uganda Walter Odongo, a 31-year-old farmer from Dokolo district in Northern Uganda, has only praise for vitamin A orange sweet potatoes (OSP). He was previously a rice farmer, but was persuaded to switch…
HC bench annoyed over lack of mosquito control
Dhaka, Feb 19 – A High Court bench Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction for not taking effective step to curb the mosquito menace in the capital city of Dhaka. “You (city corporation lawyer) are not taking effective step to curb the mosquito…
Painful story of a Serbian dancer in Bahrain
karim.gfbtu@gmail.com via list.jca.apc.org Foreign circus artist, who claims she is a victim of unpaid wages, has been left homeless after being thrown out of her apartment in Tubli, Bahrain, on Sunday night, it has emerged. Serbian dancer and choreographer Aleksandra…
‘Nothing for us, without us’
By Justus Wanzala Makuleni, Kenya, Feb 18 2019 (IPS) – Julia Mutua is a resident of Kalawa ward in the semi-arid Makueni County in Eastern Kenya and a member of a women’s farmers group that runs a poultry project. “Women…
A day that’s been five years in the making: Barack
Mostafa Kamal, Tomorrow is a day that’s been five years in the making. In the aftermath of the killing of Trayvon Martin, I called on Americans to take action on behalf of our nation’s boys and young men of colour.…
‘LUCKY INDE’ On Wednesday at AF Dhaka
‘LUCKY INDEX’ is a performance and screening event featuring 27 lucky participants. The event will take place on Wednesday, 20 Feburary at 7pm at Auditorium Nouvle Vague, Alliance Française de Dhaka. “I am Lucky, but I am not lucky“. These…
Brex-split: 7 lawmakers quit Labour over EU, anti-Semitism
London, Feb 18 (AP/UNB) — Seven British lawmakers quit the main opposition Labour Party on Monday over its approach to issues including Brexit and anti-Semitism — the biggest shake-up in years for one of Britain’s major political parties. The announcement…
Bodies of 33 premature babies found in Barisal trash bin
Barishal, Feb 18 – Thirty-three bodies of premature babies were found in a dustbin of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital here on Monday night, sending shock waves across the city. Conservancy workers of Barisal City Corporation recovered the bodies of the…
40 injured in BCL factional clashes at Jagannath University
Jagannath University, Feb 18 – At least 40 people, including three journalists, were injured during Monday’s turf war between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the campus. The journalists were identified as Latiful Islam, campus correspondent of Daily…
Deaths in Thakurgaon firing ‘unexpected’: BGB chief
Thakurgaon, Feb 18 – The Director General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Md Shafeenul Islam on Monday described the killings of three people in firing by the paramilitary force members at Bahrampur in Haripur Upazila here as…
11th Bd nat’l election can be put on record, says CEC
Dhaka, Feb 18 – Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Monday claimed that the 11th national election was held in such a credible manner that it can be put on record. “The 11th parliamentary polls were held in…