The potential for intimidation and violence by extremist individuals or groups during and after the United States general election on November 3, 2020 has been raised by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), national security experts, civil and human rights…
2 November 2020 – UN agencies and humanitarian actors in the Philippines are mobilizing to support communities hit by super Typhoon Goni, which has barrelled across the country, leaving massive devastation in its wake.
Comilla, Nov 02 – Miscreants torched seven houses belonging to the Hindu community in Korbanpur of Muradnagar in Cumilla on Sunday afternoon as they allegedly hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims on Facebook.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are travelling across the nation on Sunday as the US election enters its closing stage. President Trump planned to visit five battleground states while his challenger Mr Biden spoke at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.
Dhaka, Nov 01 – BNP has formed a 115-member committee to celebrate the golden jubilee of the country’s independence in 2021 in a befitting manner. Party standing committee approved the committee, headed by its member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, on Saturday…
Dhaka, Nov 01 – Bangladesh-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BGCCI) has discussed the impact of pandemic on business and identified five strategies to mitigate business risks during the pandemic.
Dhaka, Nov 01 – A Dhaka court on Sunday placed suspended councilor Irfan Selim, also son of Awami League leader Haji Selim and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah on a two-day fresh remand in a case filed over assaulting a navy…
Dhaka, Nov 01 – Some 28 percent youths aged above 18 left studies to support their families amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, according to an online survey conducted by Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh.
By Ben Norton 23 Sep 2020 – Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian opposition leaders, planted stories in media outlets from BBC to Al Jazeera, and ran a cadre of journalists. A trove of leaked documents exposes the propaganda network.
Dhaka, Oct 31 – A direct bus service from Dhaka to Jaflong and Bholaganj, popular tourist spots in Sylhet division, will start operating from November 2, with the aim to boost the tourism in the country, according to Imran Ahmad,…
Dhaka, Oct 31 – Bangladesh on Saturday registered 1,320 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, pushing the caseload to 407,684. Besides, 18 more patients died from Covid-19 during the period, taking the fatalities to 5,923.
Dhaka, Oct 31 – Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim on Saturday said the government seeks to promote fish farming in cages, known as cage culture, in the country.
মাউথওয়াশ বা ওরাল অ্যান্টিসেপটিক ব্যবহার করার পর দেহে ভাইরাস লোড কমিয়ে দেয়। তাই মাউথওয়াশ কিংবা ওরাল অ্যান্টিসেপটিক ভয়ঙ্কর করোনাভাইরাসকে ঠেকিয়ে দিতে পারে। এমনটাই বলছে সাম্প্রতিক এক গবেষণা।
ডেঙ্গু রোগের প্রাদুর্ভাব দিন দিন বাড়ছে। এডিশ মশাবাহিত এই রোগে আক্রান্ত হয়ে শনিবার সকাল ৮টা পর্যন্ত গত ২৪ ঘণ্টায় নতুন ১১ রোগী হাসপাতালে ভর্তি হয়েছেন।
নৌপরিবহন প্রতিমন্ত্রী খালিদ মাহমুদ চৌধুরী বলেছেন, প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার অঙ্গীকার শত বছরের পুরোনো নদীর গতিপথ ফিরিয়ে আনা। তারই ফলশ্রুতিতে সারা দেশে ১০ হাজার কিলোমিটার নৌপথ খনন করা হবে।’
Dhaka, Oct 31 – BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Saturday said their party will fail in their movement to oust the government unless the prevailing intra-party feuds are resolved first.
AP/UNB, Oct 31 – The global confirmed cases of Covid-19 exceeded 45 million on Saturday, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The data shows the Covid-19 cases reached 45,477,552 while 1,187,023 more fatalities recorded till this…
By Diana Cariboni and Isabella Cota MONTEVIDEO, Oct 30 2020 (IPS) – Half a dozen US Christian right groups have poured millions of dollars into Latin America and have promoted misinformation about COVID-19 and other health and rights issues, openDemocracy…
By Elena L. Pasquini ROME, Oct 23 2020 (IPS) – Producing food and ensuring nutrition security, protecting the environment and restoring biodiversity, building sustainable and fair food systems: That’s the promise of agroecology.
On October 23, The Gambia filed a more than 500-page Memorial, which also includes more than 5000 pages of supporting material, in its lawsuit against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, making its case for how…
A fire broke out at Natunbazar slum of Kalyanpur in the capital on Friday night.
A tourist drowned while taking bath in Sahasradhara lake at Sotodarogarhat in Sitakunda Upazila of Chattogram on Friday.
30 October 2020 – Many will be familiar with El Niño – the ocean-warming phenomenon that affects global weather patterns – but how about La Niña, which is linked to cooler sea temperatures?
By Askiah Adam The Abraham Accord signed recently between Israel on the one hand and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain on the other, is touted as a peace deal. They were not at war. There was peace between…
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Thursday expressed optimism over more investment cooperation with Bangladesh in high-tech fields such as 5G telecommunications, high-speed railway, aerospace, and blue economy.
Macron says France will not give up its values Three people have died in a knife attack at a church in Nice, in what French President Emmanuel Macron said was an “Islamist terrorist attack”.
Rajshahi, Oct 27 – The Rajshahi University authorities have decided to take admission tests offline. The decision was taken at the 252nd academic council meeting held on Tuesday at the senate building of the university.
27 October 2020 – Yemeni children are suffering acute malnutrition at unprecedented rates as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis grinds on and funding falls far short of what is needed to offset the effects of conflict and economic collapse, UN…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder My lookout for news stories landed me on a move by some greedy people coming up with a formal proposal submitted to the government in October 1988 to import toxic wastes camouflaging it under the cover of…
Dhaka, Oct 27 – An Interoperable transaction among mobile financial service (MFS) providers and between them and banks is set to be launched from Tuesday on a pilot basis.