Braving scorching heat, thousands of people from Bangladesh and India met their relatives from either side along the border at Amarkhana in Sadar upazila on Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year, on Friday. The five-km border between…
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Nato deploys troops in Poland near Russian border
Poland on Thursday welcomed the first US troops in a multinational force being posted across the Baltic region to counter potential threats from Russia. More than 1,100 soldiers – 900 US troops as well as 150 British and 120 Romanians…
Why Pakistanis are happier than Indians
The World Happiness Report, released by the United Nations on March 20, 2017 – to coincide with International Happiness day – has ranked India at the bottom of the pyramid, in terms of happiness of its citizens. India has been…
Dhaka a reliable partner, says Moscow
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday termed Bangladesh a ‘reliable partner’ and highly appreciated the upward trajectory of bilateral relations since the official visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Moscow in 2013. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali had…
Wrong time Tillerson freezes out Russia’s independent groups
Rex Tillerson’s first visit to Russia as secretary of state was understandably dominated by the fallout from the April 7 US air strike on a Syrian air base. While he met with President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and…
NASA may announce the discovery of new habitat
Today, NASA will announce a new finding which the space agency says will ‘inform the broader search for life beyond Earth’. A report from a former NASA employee suggests that the finding relates to hydrothermal vents in an icy ocean…
First B2B meeting on cotton trade in Bangladesh
The International Islamic Trade Financing Corporation has organised its first B2B meeting between African cotton suppliers and Bangladesh cotton importers, as part of its Cotton Development and Partnership Programme… ITFC is recognised as the leading trade financier for cotton in…
Economic recovery crucial to sustainable development
More than eight years after the global financial crisis exploded in late 2008, economic growth remains generally tepid, while ostensible recovery measures appear to have exacerbated income and other inequalities. Yet, despite the G-20 group of the world’s largest economies…
Job opportunities through enabling environment
GOVERNMENT is constantly working towards ensuring that employment opportunities are made available through an “enabling environment”. This was highlighted by the Attorney-General and Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, at the 2017/2018 National Budget consultations for schools at the Vunimono Community…
Dozens feared deaf after chemical exposure in Syria
Dozens of people showed symptoms consistent with exposure to chemicals after aircraft attacked Khan Sheikhoun, a town in northern Syria, witnesses told us. While we are continuing to investigate, early reports suggest dozens were killed. Khan Sheikhoun is controlled by…
Move to repeal affordable care act threat to women’s health
Congressional efforts to draft a new version of a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act may be just as threatening to women across the United States as the previous Republican-sponsored bill, Human Rights Watch said today, based on media…
Reliance power signs deal for 750MW LNG power plant in BD
India’s Reliance Power has signed agreements with Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDP) for phase 1 of 750 MW liquefied natural gas (LNG) combined cycle power project at Meghnaghat, near Dhaka in Bangladesh. The company has signed a power purchase agreement…
Bangladeshis take more fish but get less nutrition from it
People in Bangladesh are now eating 30 percent more fish than they did 20 years ago, but they are getting a smaller amount of important nutrients from it, a new study shows. Fish is widely known as a healthy food,…
HRW asks Indonesia to release 2 gay men facing torture
Indonesian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release two men detained in Aceh province under a local ordinance that criminalizes homosexuality, Human Rights Watch said today. On the night of March 28, 2017, unidentified vigilantes forcibly entered a home and brought…
44 killed in Egypt Coptic Churches blasts
At least 44 people were killed in Egypt in bomb attacks at the cathedral of the Coptic Pope and another church on Palm Sunday, prompting anger and fear among Christians and leading to troop deployments and the declaration of a…
Trumps secret weapon to replace Obama legacy
On February 28, President Donald Trump signed three bills into law. He held an Oval Office ceremony to spotlight two of them, H.R. 321 and H.R. 255, both of them feel-good symbolic resolutions declaring the importance of women in science…
HC stays arson case against Khaleda for six months
Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday stayed the trial proceedings of two arson cases filed against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia with Darus Salam Police Station in the city for six months.
President rejects clemency for Mufti Hannan
Militant leader Mufti Mohammad Abdul Hannan will have to walk the gallows over the 2004 grenade attack on the then UK envoy as the president has rejected his clemency plea.The Harkat-ul-Jihadi al Islami (HuJI) leader’s accomplices Sharif Shahedul Alam alias…
Proclamation of Independence Day Monday
Bangladesh is set to recall April 10 as part of revisiting the history as on this day in 1971 the nation saw installation of its first sovereign government with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The provisional government was…
Hasina offers munajat at Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty mazar
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in India on a four-day official visit, offered ziarat at the dargah (shrine) of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti (RA) in Ajmer Sharif here this morning. Sheikh Hasina along with a few members of her delegation arrived…
Bangladesh asks for interim teesta deal
Bangladesh on Saturday requested New Delhi for inking an “interim agreement” on Teesta waters as agreed upon by both the governments in January 2011, said a joint agreement issued after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s talks with counterpart Narendra Modi in…
Teesta issue will find an early solution: Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today acknowledged the Teesta issue to have drawn “greatest attention” in regard to bilateral relations and expressed his “firm belief” that it would find an early solution. “I firmly believe that it is only my…
Dhaka Delhi for zero tolerance on terrorism
Bangladesh and India today reinforced their pledge “zero tolerance” policy against terrorism and extremism alongside reiterating their strong commitment to make borders peaceful and free from criminal activities as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks with her counterpart Nardendra Modi…
Dhaka Delhi sign 22 deals on diverse areas of cooperation
Dhaka and New Delhi have signed 22 instruments covering diverse areas of bilateral cooperations including economic, defense cooperation, power, peaceful use of nuclear energy, outer space, information technology and mass media. The deals were signed following the official bilateral talks…
Developing nations seek funding tech to battle climate change
The negative fallout from climate change has not only severely impacted on the world’s developing nations but also eroded development gains undermining and delaying the achievement of the 17goals under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Climate-Summit-Social-Media“We are already taking…
Indonesian man faced caning for gay sex
Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province each face up to 100 strokes of the cane after neighbours reported them to sharia police for having gay sex. Marzuki, the sharia police’s chief investigator, said on Saturday that residents in the…
Folk medicine, traditional medicine in Bangladesh
Heritage, folk medicine and traditional medical practices are closely related to each other. Preservation of heritage is about making sense of our past and developing a sense of identity. Traditional medicine (TM), a form of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), constitutes…
Hasina optimistic about solution of all outstanding issues
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today compared Bangladesh-India relations with a flowing river and expressed her optimism to solve all pending issues. “Mexican Nobel Laureate Octavio said ‘Friendship is a river’. I think that the friendship between Bangladesh and India is…
Modi says he and Hasina would take relations to new heights
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said he and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina are determined to take the relationship between the two nations to a new level. “(Bangladesh) PM Sheikh Hasina and I are determined to take the relationship…
Syria decries aggfression as US launched missile attack
Syria decried a U.S. missile attack early Friday morning on a government-controlled air base where U.S. officials say the Syrian military launched a deadly chemical attack earlier this week, calling it an “aggression” that led to “losses.” Rebels welcomed the…