Dhaka, July 2 – Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organized an award giving ceremony on 2 July 2018 Monday at Islami Bank Tower to its employees recognizing their special performance in Cash Waqf Campaign.
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Rosatom, SUEZ sign water desalination – treatment deal
Dhaka, July 2 – Rusatom Smart Utilities ( ITPC) – a division of the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, Russia and SUEZ signed a Memorandum of understanding for water desalination, water treatment and wastewater treatment. Ksenia Sukhotina, Director General of…
Your help may enable student Nayeem get well again!
Dear Editor, Mahmudul Hasan Nayeem, one of our meritorious post-graduate and socialite students suddenly attacked by a rare neurological disease–Guillain-Barre (gee-YAH-buh-RAY) syndrome (GBS) which has made Nayeem speechless and paralyzed! Currently he is undergoing treatment at the National Institute of…
CMM Court to hear 11 cases against Khaleda Aug 5
Dhaka July 1 – The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Sunday deferred to August 5 the next hearing in 11 cases filed against Begum Khaleda Zia. The cases include a sedition case for her remarks about the number…
HC to hear 4 appeals Tuesday in Zia Orphanage case
Dhaka, July 1 – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday fixed Tuesday, (July 3) for hearing four separate appeals in connection with Zia Orphanage Trust graft case in which BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia was sentenced to…
Quota protest foiled at RU: Classes boycotted at CU
Rajshahi, June 30 – The Quota reform movement could not be held on Rajshahi University (RU) campus as the leaders and activists of the University BCL has foiled their movement, it is alleged.
Russia joins Nuclear Quality Standard Association NQSA
Dhaka, June 30 – Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, represented by Atomenergoprom, joined the Nuclear Quality Standard Association(NQSA). An agreement to this effect was signed at the World Nuclear Exhibition, held in Paris at the end of last month.
Fear turns into joy: Rescue boat saves 60 in Mediterranean
Aboard The Open Arms In The Mediterranean Sea, Jul 1 (AP/UNB) — The full moon was the only light as a terrified 9-year-old boy from the Central African Republic climbed into a rubber dinghy held them together with duct tape,…
Melania Trump seeing lots, saying little at migrant centers
Washington, Jul 1 (AP/UNB) — Melania Trump lit up when a 3-year-old boy darted out of “Family Unit 8” at a migrant centre in Tucson, Arizona.
Uruguay into quarters; Ronaldo and Portugal out
Moscow, July 01 (AP/UNB) – Edinson Cavani has scored twice to lead Uruguay to a 2-1 win over Cristiano Ronaldo and European champion Portugal in the round of 16 at the World Cup.
2 years of Holey Artisan attack: Govt to act tough
2nd Holey Artisan attack anniversary: Japan lauds untiring efforts Dhaka, Jul 1 – The government and Bangladesh’s foreign friends want to continue cooperation against radicalisation and terrorism on the second anniversary of deadly Holey Artisan attack.
Stronger movement through national unity: Moudud
Dhaka, June 30 – BNP’s senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Saturday said their party will launch a strong oust-government movement through forging a national unity.
Custodial deaths, extrajudicial killings 275 in 6 months: ASK
427 women raped, it says Dhaka, June 30 – Some 275 people were killed in incidents of ‘gunfight’ and ‘crossfire’ with law enforcers, and in custody of law enforcement agencies, or being shot by law enforcers from January 1 to…
Oil-laden train derails in B’baria, spill in nearby canals
Brahmanbaria, June 30 – Rail communications on Chattogram-Sylhet route snapped as an oil-laden train derailed in Shamarailkandi area here on Saturday night.
Gazipur City polls rigging not resisted for strategic reason: BNP
Dhaka, June 30 – BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Saturday said their party did not put up any resistance against the ruling party’s various irregularities in Gazipur and Khulna polls due to a strategic reason.
Protection of climate displaced people urged
Dhaka, Jun 30 – Speakers at an event in Geneva on Friday have pleaded for a rights-based protection framework and adaptation-based resilience as the fundamental need for climate displaced people.
How Costa Rica gets it right
By Joseph E. Stiglitz How has a country of under five million people become a world leader in developing holistic policies that promote democratic, sustainable, and inclusive economic growth? The answer lies in its people’s belief that focusing on the…
39 JCD men held from Kushtia house of BNP leader
Kushtia, June 30 – Police arrested 39 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) while they were ‘planning sabotage’ at the house of a BNP central leader in the town on Friday night.
Youth’s bullet-hit body found in Jashore, one killed in ‘gunfight’
Jashore, Jun 30 – Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a young man from Kayemkhola intersection in Jhikargachha upazila headquarters on Saturday morning.
Bamboo, a sustainability powerhouse
By Ed Holt Vienna, Jun 29, 2018 (IPS) – A landmark conference bringing more than 1,200 people from across the world together to promote and explain the importance of bamboo and rattan to the global sustainable development and tackling climate…
Football, xenophobia, racism, discrimination and …
By Pablo Alabarces Buenos Aires, Jun 29, 2018 (IPS) – Football tells us a great deal about identity. Even a budding sports journalist knows that. And it has come to be a meeting point and even an advertising theme. But…
South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency plans bureau in Pyongyang
Colin Zwirko South Korea’s state-funded Yonhap News Agency is planning to open a bureau in North Korea, a company official confirmed to NK News on Friday. A formal proposal for bureau already submitted to North Korea’s KCNA, reports Yonhap.
FIFA says video reviews have been 99.3 percent correct
Moscow, June 29 (AP/UNB) — FIFA says video reviews are “close to perfection” at the first World Cup to use the system, claiming 99.3 percent of “match-changing” plays were called correctly.
UNHCR chief, UN Special Rapporteur in Dhaka
Dhaka, Jun 29 – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee arrived here on Friday to meet Rohingyas in various locations of Cox’s Bazar. Filippo…
Five killed in ‘targeted’ attack on US newspaper in Maryland
A gunman opened fire at a local newspaper office in Maryland, killing five people and injuring others in what police said was a “targeted attack”.
Youth gets life term for rape in Sherpur
Sherpur, Jun 28 – A court on Thursday sentenced a youth to life term imprisonment for raping a teenage girl after the abduction at Akhrapara village in Nalitabari Upazila in Sherpur district.
Joe Jackson turned his children into stars, but at a price
New York, Jun 28 (AP/UNB) — Joe Jackson once had his own dreams of success. He tried to be a boxer and then played the guitar with a group called The Falcons. But he realized early on that there was…
Don’t leave workplaces without permission, SC asks judges
Dhaka, June 28 – The Supreme Court administration has asked the lower court judges and officials not to leave their workplaces without informing the SC registrar. A circular issued on Thursday in this regard was published on the SC website.
One of every seven on earth a migrant: William L. Swing
By International Organization for Migration Jun 28, 2018 (IOM) – Migration is one of the major defining factors of our time. Today, one billion people – one out of seven people in the world – are migrants, including over 250…
25 programs bringing veterans to the new food movement
From Danielle Nierenberg Greetings from Châlons-en-Champagne, France! Today I am speaking at the Planet A International Forum, where I’ll offer my take on efforts to enhance the changing world of agriculture. This Fourth of July, Food Tank is celebrating military…