Speakers at a working session of the two-day Bangladesh Development Forum underscored the need for a holistic and inclusive approach with the coordination of all concerned agencies and stakeholders to improve urban service delivery to help ensure sustainable development. “Coordination…
Populists abhor restraints on the political executive. Since they claim to represent “the people” writ large, they regard limits on their exercise of power as necessarily undermining the popular will. Such constraints can only serve the “enemies of the people”…
Myanmar police opened fire at hundreds of protesters angry about a ban on a local festival, killing seven people, officials said Wednesday.
The central committee of ruling Awami League on Wednesday summoned lawmaker Shamim Osman and Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy over Tuesday’s clash in Narayanganj that injured 50 people.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday renewed her scathing attack on those who always wait for an unconstitutional government in the country to gain their personal benefits. “There are people of another class in our country, who are the problem.…
North Korea plans to send a 230-member cheering squad as part of its delegation to next month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, officials said Wednesday, as South Korea’s president announced his support of a proposal for the rivals’ first unified…
Myanmar has sent a list containing names of more than 1,300 Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) “terrorist members” to Bangladesh.
The United States will give a UN agency $60m in aid for Palestinian refugees but withhold a further $65m for now, the state department said on Tuesday, as the Trump administration carried out a threat it made two weeks ago…
As a new year gets under way in a troubled world, it is timely to fix the ailing EU-Turkey relationship with a new Strategic Partnership. Much lip-service has been paid to Turkey’s “eventual full membership”, but neither Brussels nor Ankara…
In Nepal’s far western Achham, a remote arid region where farming villages dot the foothills of the Himalayas, government and aid workers have walked from door to door for nearly a decade to advocate against chauupadi, an ancient Hindu ritual…
Minister for Water Resources Anwar Hossain today said the government has finalized an interim water sharing agreement framework of the River Teesta. “A framework of the interim Teesta Water Sharing Agreement has been finalized following the directives of the two…
The much-talked-about ‘Bank-Company (Amendment) Bill 2018’ was passed in Parliament on Tuesday with a provision to allow upto four members of a family to become directors of any bank and the directors to hold their posts for nine years consecutively.…
A total of 33,09,789 cases are now pending with the higher courts and lower courts across the country according to a statistics placed by Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq in Parliament on Tuesday. Of these, 28.16 lakh…
Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday rescinded the bank recruitment test that took place on Friday last at different centers in the capital to recruit officers at over 7000 posts remained vacant at eight state-owned banks. The decision on cancellation of the…
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on Tuesday stressed the importance of Rohingyas’ returns meeting the international standards saying that they are willing to be part of these talks on repatriation. “To ensure that the refugees are heard and their protection…
Some 38 members of three more robber gangs of the Sundarbans, including their ringleaders, surrendered to law enforcers on Tuesday in a bid to return to normal life. They gave in at the Rapid Action Battalion-8 headquarters in Barisal in…
Vegetables worth of Tk. 60 lakh were sold in the three-day National Vegetable Fair 2018 that concluded in the city on Tuesday. Senior Secretary of Agriculture Ministry, Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah, said this while addressing the closing ceremony of the fair…
Another three people who suffered burn injuries while warming themselves by fire amid biting cold died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital on Sunday night. The deceased were identified as Shukmoni 70, of Rajpur in Lalmonirhat, Jameron, 80, of Taraganj upazila,…
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of Ridesharing Service Guideline, 2017 to bring the app-based transport services under a legal framework. “The ridesharing services are already available in the country, and the cabinet endorsed the draft of the Ridesharing…
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) A K M Nurul Huda on Monday said that the process for holding the 11th parliamentary election will start in October this year. “All the political parties will participate in the upcoming national polls,” hoped the…
Some 600 billion cubic feet of gas were found at Bhedoria gas-field in Bhola, said cabinet secretary M Shafiul Alam said on Monday.
Visiting former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said Bangladesh is now an attractive place for investment.Pranab Mukherjee said this when he met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganobhaban. After the meeting, Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul…
Myanmar officials say a camp to house Rohingya Muslim and Hindu refugees who return from Bangladesh will be ready by its promised deadline next week. Myanmar and Bangladesh had signed an agreement in November to repatriate Rohingya and had set…
Since independence in 1991 the Baltic states have implemented neoliberal economic policies with weak social systems and income and wealth distribution that is among the most unequal in the European Union. Among the consequences is large-scale outward migration. At independence…
As part of an intensified response to the current diphtheria outbreak, United Nations agencies are working to vaccinate more than 475,000 children in Rohingya refugee camps, temporary settlements and surrounding areas in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar. “All efforts are being made…
Several hundred Ebtedayee madrasah teachers on a hunger strike movement that rolled into straight sixth day today vowed to continue strike as two meetings with the government ended inconclusive. They have been on a sit-in for nine days and then…
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has termed the statement of the Cantre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) regarding the country’s banking sector as rubbish. “No, no, no…It’s all rubbish. I have no comment,” he told reporters as his attention was drawn to…
The biting cold, coupled with dense fog, hit the normal life hard across the country, disrupting air and ferry services on Sunday. The number of patients with cold-related diseases and diarrhoea is growing forcing them to crowd hospitals and clinics…
The government has formed a new wage board to review the existing wages of the garment industry workers.State Minister for Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque Chunnu came up with the information at a press conference at the secretariat on Sunday.Earlier,…
Mentioning that five mobile phone operators have applied for having licences for the 4G mobile phone services, BTRC Chairman Dr Shahjahan Mahmood on Sunday hoped that it will be able to roll out the fourth general network by March next.…