Dhaka – Parliament on Thursday passed the ‘Anti Corruption Commission (Amendment) Bill 2016’ empowering the police to investigate some fraud and forgery charges instead of by the Anti Corruption Commission. Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury, who is also in charge…
New York – Muslim prayers over the body of Muhammad Ali will be witnessed worldwide Thursday, offering a window into a religion many outsiders know little about, but have come to scorn. About 14,000 people are expected for the service…
Dhaka –The 1320-megawatt thermal power plant project at Rampal, adjacent to the Sundarbans, is yet to get environmental clearance certificate from the Department of Environment (DoE). “The DoE is yet to provide any environmental clearance for the 1320MW coal-based Rampal…
The much-anticipated MC-21 aircraft, touted to become a direct rival of the Boeing-737 and Airbus 320, has been rolled out for official presentation in Irkutsk, Russia. Serial production of the medium- and short-range passenger jet is planned for 2017. Russia’s…
Dhaka – Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah was forced on Wednesday to adjourn the Parliament session at 12:15pm for lack of speakers on the proposed budget for 2016-17 fiscal year. On the very first day of the general discussion on…
A views-exchange meeting of top executives of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was held on 4 June 2016 Saturday at Mohammad Younus Auditorium of Islami Bank Tower. Engr. Mustafa Anwar, chairman of the bank was present in the meeting as chief…
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited has taken month-long programme to distribute Ifter among one lac fifty thousand fasting pedestrians in Dhaka and Chittagong cities during the Holy Month Ramadan this year.
Dhaka – Two suspected criminals were killed in a reported gunfight with plainclothes police in Kalshi Lohar Bridge area under Pallabi thana in Dhaka city early Tuesday, Unb news agency reported.
Dhaka – The historic Six-Point Day is being observed on Tuesday commemorating the placing of the demand for autonomy for the erstwhile East Pakistan, Unb news agency reported.
Madinah – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned that the culprits behind the killing of the wife of a police officer in Chittagong will not be spared as her government will never tolerate terrorism, Unb news agency reported. “This is…
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday said the government has banned riding motorcycles by more than two people across the country. The minister came up with the announcement a day after the brutal killing of a police officer’s…
Dhaka, – Police claimed to have recovered a motorcycle used in killing of Superintendent of Police Babul Akhter’s wife from Solokbahar area in the city early Monday, Unb news agency reported.
Dhaka – Two staff of a filling station were stabbed dead in Charabhita area of Bagharpara upazila of the southwestern Jessore district on Monday morning, UNB news agency reported.
By Isabelle Louis and Jeremy Douglas BANGKOK, Jun 5 2016 (IPS) – This year’s World Environment Day on June 5 puts the spotlight on the illegal trade in wildlife. The problem has particular significance in Asia, which is the destination…
By Shamsuddoza Sajen May – In a recent interview with BBC, India’s minister of water resources Uma Bharti unveiled her government’s massive plan to divert major rivers including the Ganges and Brahmaputra. According to the Guardian, the project is just…
A huge procession and funeral will be held for Muhammad Ali on Friday to “allow anyone that is there from the world to say goodbye”, his family says. The funeral will be in Ali’s home city of Louisville, Kentucky. Ex-President…
Muhammad Ali’s doctor says the iconic boxer had been “having a tough time in the last year” before his death. The three-time world heavyweight champion, who had Parkinson’s disease for 32 years, died aged 74 from “septic shock due to…
Dhaka – Unidentified miscreants gunned down the wife of a superintendent of police of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) at the port city’s GEC intersection on Sunday morning, Unb news agency reported.
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali died of “septic shock due to unspecified natural causes”, his family has said. The three-time world heavyweight champion – one of the world’s greatest sporting figures – died on Friday night at a hospital in Phoenix,…
Judith Sunderland Over 880 women, men, and children are feared drowned in the Mediterranean last week. While smugglers bear direct responsibility for sending overcrowded and unseaworthy boats from the coast of Libya and elsewhere, European governments share moral and political…
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) – Bangladesh wants to join the initiative of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to set up an Islamic Infrastructure Bank, aiming to provide funds to Muslim countries for implementing their mega infrastructural projects. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,…
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) – Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad bin Amin Madani has sought Bangladesh’s support for replicating its tremendous achievements and successes in the fields of NGO, women empowerment and micro-financing in other Muslim…
Chandra Muzaffar According to media reports, President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines would be staking a fresh claim on Sabah. He recognises Sabah as a Sulu Sultanate territory. It is a recognition that has been challenged by various quarters including…
Sudhirendar Sharma Thor Hanson’s book is a thoroughly engaging treatise on the many ways in which seeds sustain life on this planet Accomplished artists may have painted hundreds of verses on a kernel but the unwritten genetic instructions a seed…
CNN wrote: His hands and his mouth were furiously fast. His skill as a boxer made him “The Greatest” in his mind and in the minds of many others. He antagonized opponents with his taunts, amused reporters with his boasts…
Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74, a family spokesman has said. The former world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world’s best-known sportsmen, had been in hospital in the US city of Phoenix in Arizona state.
WASHINGTON — The federal judge who’s hearing a Trump University lawsuit is “a hater of Donald Trump” and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican…
Dhaka – Voting in the election to 698 union parishads (UPs) of 82 upazilas across 47 of the country’s 64 districts began on Saturday morning in the 6th and final phase of the polls to the lowest tier of the…
68 scholarships for Bangladesh Ambassador Pierre Mayaudon, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh, hosted a reception Thursday in Dhaka for 68 Bangladeshi students who will benefit from an EU scholarship of the ‘Erasmus+’ programme. The event included…
Susan Myers United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke those words to open the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, which took place May 23-24 and included 9,000 participants from across the world and across sectors. They represented over 170 countries and came…