The name of senior North Korean official Choe Ryong Hae was listed among the state funeral committee for Kim Yang Gon, the Korean Central News Agency revealed Wednesday, marking the end of a more-than-two-month absence. Kim Yang Gon, director of…
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Top 10 New Year resolutions
By Junaid Tahir A New Year’s resolution is a self commitment that a person makes to achieve personal goals, projects, or reforming of a bad habit. This commitment is the driving force to perform the corrective and preventive actions throughout…
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development alternates MDGs
Jatinder Kaur New Delhi (ABC Live): 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development : Avoid Temptation to Fall into ‘Declarationist Nominalism’ Pope Francis, Joined Other World Leaders in Hailing Post-2015 Framework. Climate change, environmental issues, the migrant and refugee crisis, and the…
Merkel takes centre stage in EU’s Year of Crises
By EurActiv In a year of crises for Europe, from the Ukraine war to Greece’s debt turmoil to the historic refugee influx, Germany’s Angela Merkel emerged as the continent’s de facto leader, drawing more praise and fire than ever. Whether…
Bnp to protest ‘massive vote rigging’ across country
BNP has decided to stage demonstration across the country protesting massive “vote rigging” in the municipal polls and demanding resignation of the present Election Commission. The agitational programme first of its kind after the three months long blockade enforced early…
Municipal polls give AL 172 mayors, Bnp 21
Dhaka – The ruling Awami League swept the country’s first-ever partisan municipal elections, bagging 172 mayoral posts against BNP’s 21. The Bnp late in the evening rejected the results and demanded resignation of the Eelection Commission for what its leaders…
BNP calls municipal polls farcical, staged-managed
Dhaka – Accusing the ruling party men of resorting to widespread violence and capturing over a thousand polling stations, BNP on Wednesday called the municipal elections as farcical and staged-managed ones. At a post-polls press conference at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan…
European capitals tighten security ahead of New Year celebrations
Security is being stepped up in major European cities ahead of New Year celebrations, with officials wary of possible terror plots. New Year fireworks and festivities have been cancelled in the Belgian capital Brussels because of an alert. Extra measures…
Low oil prices, war in Yemen, leaves huge hole in Saudi budget
By Samuel Oakford Projecting a record budget deficit of $98 billion in 2015, Saudi Arabia announced a decrease in fuel subsidies on Monday and said it could sell off state assets in the future as the kingdom struggles with plunging…
North Korea says top official Kim Yang-gon killed in car crash
Kim Yang Gon, director of North Korea’s United Front Department, has died in a road accident, North Korean state media outlet the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) has reported on Wednesday morning, according to NK News.
1 killed, 27 hurt, 2 journos held: Voting stop in 20 municipal centres
Dhaka – A man was shot to death in a clash between the supporters of two Awami League (AL)-backed councillor candidates at a polling station in Satkania municipality, private news agency UNB reported on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as…
TIB concerned at Rooppur nuke plant transparency
Dhaka – Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed concern over the reliability and security of the proposed Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant and demanded full public disclosure of information related to the project to ensure transparency in the plant construction. Bangladesh’s…
Khaleda blames AL for ‘emergence of militancy’
Dhaka – BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has blamed Awami League for the ‘emergence of militancy’ in the country and called for a national unity to eliminate it. Speaking at a press conference at her Gulshan office on Monday, the BNP…
School girl raped in Jessore
Dhaka – A schoolgirl was raped allegedly by a young man at Belta village in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Monday, about 300 kilometres southwest of here.
The 2016 Vladimir Putin calendar
Moscow – Fans of Vladimir Putin can now spend “the whole year with the Russian president” as a new 2016 limited edition calendar is released in Russia showing the country’s strongman leader in a variety of carefully-crafted poses.
Journalists Moulana Kismati, Abdul Khaleq laid to rest
Dhaka – Noted journalist Mualana Zulfiquer Ahmed Quismati and Abdul Khaleq were laid to eternal rest in Narayanganj and Comilla on Monday. Zulfiquer Ahmd Quismati who was suffering from old age complications died at the United Hospital on Sunday night.…
North Korea urges Seoul to dismantle concrete obstacles
JH Ahn North Korea’s state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper on Monday urged Seoul to deconstruct its concrete antitank structure lying between the two Koreas for the last 36 years. Built under the orders of former South Korean President Park Chung-hee in…
JU Alumni observe 45 anniversary January 12
Jahangirnagar University Alumni Association will have to arrange 4-day long festival to observed 45 founding anniversary of the University and arrange get together of former students from January 12 to 15. Sunday JU Registrar Abu Bakar Siddique announced the festival…
Government, Islamic State style
By Reuters News Agency Islamic State (IS) has set up departments to handle “war spoils,” including slaves, and the exploitation of natural resources such as oil, creating the trappings of government that enable it to manage large swaths of Syria…
Iffat Binta Aziz – talented presenter!
On television screen she is a very popular and famous presenter. She begun her carrier as a presenter of a programme of her university cultural functgion at the Asian University campus.Now she is a news presenter of Ekushey Television. Iffat…
Phasing out chemicals with agroecology
Executive Summary “If we do persist with business as usual, the world’s people cannot be fed over the next half-century. It will mean more environmental degradation, and the gap between the haves and have-nots will expand. We have an opportunity…
Ten inconvenient truths about Paris Climate Accord
Surya P. Sethi, India’s former Core Climate Negotiator To those who say the Paris Accord “signals an end to the fossil fuel era”; I say please look at Bloomberg’s commodities page – fossil fuels are being produced in never before…
Two killed in reported ‘gunfight’ were ‘JMB suspects’
Gazipur – Two suspected members of the banned militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were reportedly killed in a gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Jugitola area near Bypass Road in Gazipur city on Sunday night. The…
Britain sends in more troops as York city flooded
York – British Prime Minister David Cameron was expected to visit flood-stricken parts of northern England on Monday, as troops helped tackle a deluge that has swamped the historic city of York. The government has dispatched hundreds of soldiers to…
UN’s Libya govt of national accord: Refusing to learn from past
By Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC) The recently-signed agreement between sections from Libya’s warring factions will likely have little impact as most Libyan political players and militia groups oppose it, and because local initiatives and views were ignored during its conceptualisation.…
Texas tornadoes: ‘Eleven killed’ in Dallas suburbs
Dhaka – Eleven people are reported to have been killed in Texas after new tornadoes, raising the death toll to 26 in a week of storms in several US states. Local media said five people in cars were probably blown…
RSS says Akhand Bharat reunification unlikely today
New Delhi: The ruling BJP and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh today played down the remarks Ram Madhav on Akhand Bharat – described as an integration of Pakistan and Bangladesh with India through popular goodwill – which triggered…
Awami League will face debacle if fair election held: Khaleda
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said the ruling party will face a debacle in the December-30 municipal election if it is held fairly and accusing the ruling party of carrying out propaganda in the name of election…
Geography fair held at Jahangirnagar University
The role man to protect the environment, sustain ecological balance and enhance public awareness about the environment was emphasised at a geography fair-2015 organied amid fanfare and festivity at the Jahangirnagar University (JU) Geography Association (JUGA) on Saturday.