Dhaka, Dec 17 – Ambassadors, high commissioners and diplomats of concurrently accredited countries to Bangladesh with residences in New Delhi on Sunday called for ensuring the rightful return of the Myanmar nationals, who were forcibly displaced from its Rakhine State,…
Ruling Awami League activists chased the local mayor for not having Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s portrait on the banner during Victory Day celebrations in Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh on Saturday. The incident took place at a flag hoisting ceremony and…
Dhaka – At least 26 people including police and journalists, were injured in clashes between local leaders and activists of Awami League and BNP during Victory Day celebration in Chuadanga and Lalmonirhat on Saturday. In Chuadanga, a chase and counter…
Noga Tarnopolsky Escalating the chorus of global condemnation of President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Turkish government announced Friday it would open an embassy in East Jerusalem — in support of Palestinians. At the end of a…
Bangladesh has said that the United States recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and transfer of US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv may trigger grave consequences and threats to international peace and security. “We’re afraid that United…
The two-day 2nd International Conference on Genocide and Mass Violence began at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban auditorium of Dhaka University (DU) on Thursday. The DU Centre for Genocide Studies organised the conference in cooperation with the Cultural Affairs…
At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in attacks during the first month of a military crackdown in Myanmar in late August, Médecins Sans Frontières estimates. The aid group interviewed several thousand Rohingya refugees in four camps in Bangladesh in late…
Dhaka, Dec 13 – BNP on Wednesday alleged that Awami League’s student body Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) is forming its committee at the school level to build the ‘superstructure of terrorism’ across the country.
Dhaka – Bangladesh police have not found any evidence of Akayed Ullah’s involvement in militant activities at home who allegedly blew up his homemade explosive in a pedestrian subway tunnel in the heart of the Midtown Manhattan in New York.
Dhaka – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Wednesday granted bail to two Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) leaders after hearing in a case filed on the charge of making derogatory remarks against Bangabandhu…
Leaders and top officials from Islamic nations gathered in Turkey on Wednesday for a summit that is expected to forge a unified stance against President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The summit of the 57-member…
The man who faces terror charges over Monday’s bus terminal bombing in New York posted a warning to President Donald trump just before the attack, reports BBC. “Trump you failed to protect your nation,” it read. The post by Akayed…
After the blast in New York’s Manhattan Bus Terminal, there has been concern among the Bangladeshi people living there. The anxiety spread out when the police said that the detainee was a Bangladeshi. The person named the attacker Akade Ullah…
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Dec 12 (IPS) – Almost 70 years since the Genocide Convention was adopted, the international community still faces a continued and growing risk of genocide.
Police detained the wife and parents-in-law of Akayed Ullah from the city’s Jigatala area on Tuesday for interrogation about the Bangladeshi suspect in Monday’s pipe bomb explosion beneath New York’s Times Square. Two of the detainees are Akayed’s wife Jannatul…
Dhaka, Dec 11 – The process to repatriate Rohingyas living in Bangladesh is likely to face ‘serious challenges’ as these displaced Muslims are unwilling to return immediately in absence of any future safeguard for them.
By International Organization for Migration Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Dec 11 (IOM) – If Morisha’s family had waited a matter of minutes before bringing her to the UN Migration Agency(IOM)’s health post in the Balukhali makeshift settlement, she would be dead. Full-term,…
By James A. Paul New York, Dec 8 (IPS) – Since the end of the Cold War, the UN Security Council has dramatically increased its activity and authority. Though the Council has exercised unprecedented global power, it has remained a…
Dhaka, 11 Dec – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Monday set January 16 for submission of inquiry report in the case filed in connection with the murder of writer and blogger Avijit Roy.
Dhaka, 11 Dec – The investigation committee formed earlier on the attack on minority people in Rangpur following a derogatory Facebook post confirmed that Titu Roy had posted the status with his own account.
A man with a pipe bomb strapped to him set off the crude device in the subway near Times Square on Monday, injuring the suspect and three other people at the height of the morning rush hour, law enforcement officials…
A train has struck and killed five elephants as they crossed over tracks at a tea plantation in northeast India, an official said Monday. The elephants, including a pregnant female, were part of a larger herd wandering through the plantation…
A wave of anger against a US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has spread from Asia, through the Middle East, to North Africa, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to denounce the controversial move.
Dhaka – The BNP has presented its statistics of murders, abduction and ‘cooked-up’ charges against its leaders, and said that the Awami League government has made human rights disappear from Bangladesh.
Chandpur, Dec 10 – The body of businessman Saheb Ali, who was missing since 5th Dec, was recovered from Baghulia-Dighirpar bridge area of Kachua Upazila on Sunday morning.
By Jonathan Cook Nazareth: Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their…
Clashes, Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli air strikes killed at least two people and wounded dozens of others on Friday in violence linked to US President Donald Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In the latest diplomatic fallout, the…
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that the ruling Awami League government starts the culture of disappearances and killings whenever they come to power. At a press conference in the district town, the BNP leader…
Washington, Dec 7 (AP/UNB) — President Donald Trump’s move to recognize the divided city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital may have triggered a worldwide chorus of critics but the president had his ears closely tuned to his supporters at home.
Jerusalem, Dec 7 (AP/UNB) — Palestinians shuttered schools and shops and called for protests in West Bank towns on Thursday, in show of anger over President Donald Trump’s recognition of bitterly contested Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.