Pope Francis used his Christmas message on Monday to call for a negotiated two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after US President Donald Trump stoked regional tensions with his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Francis spoke of the…
The Christian community celebrated Christmas Day in the country as elsewhere across the world on Monday, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas, the biggest religious festival of the Christian community, is the celebration of rebirth, new beginning, forgiveness and…
With their double entendres, cross-dressing characters and more than a few nudge nudge wink winks, pantomimes are part of the long British tradition of stage ribaldry.
London, Dec 25 (AP/UNB) — Queen Elizabeth II is using her annual Christmas message to pay tribute to the way the cities of London and Manchester pulled together after extremist attacks this year.
Vatican City, Dec 25 (AP/UNB) — Pope Francis in Christmas Eve remarks Sunday likened the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem to the migrations of millions of people today who are forced to leave homelands for a better life…
Bangkok, Dec 24 (AP/UNB) — After facing international outrage and charges of ethnic cleansing, Myanmar made a pledge: Rohingya Muslims who fled the country by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home within weeks.
Greenfield, Dec 24 (AP/UNB) — Massachusetts police have a new mystery to solve: Who wrote a 1944 love letter discovered within the walls of a house being remodeled?
The Christian community of the country will celebrate Christmas Day on Monday as elsewhere across the world, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas, the biggest religious festival of the Christian community, is the celebration of rebirth, new beginning, forgiveness…
A few years ago, someone shared a video with me that deeply impacted me. It was called “The Girl Effect”. In three minutes, the video demonstrates the fate of millions of girls and teenagers around the world. Years later, when…
Hundreds of thousands of women migrant workers from South Asian countries in the Middle East have signed employment contracts that they do not understand or do not adequately protect them against discrimination and abuse, says a new report. The study…
Savar – The newly inaugurated Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib (BBFM) hall of Jahangirnagar University (JU), on Monday, organised a freshers’ reception on the campus.
Visiting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday visited the National Mausoleum and paid respect to the martyrs placing wreaths. The Turkish Prime Minister also signed visitors’ book and planted a sapling there. Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf…
Conservationists have found a nest of the endangered Asian giant softshell turtle on a Mekong River sandbar in northeastern Cambodia, while 115 new species of various other animal and plant life have been discovered in the greater Mekong region. The…
Expressing her gratitude to the war veterans of India and Russia who fought for liberating Bangladesh in 1971 and contributed to removing mines from Chittagong port and its adjacent areas, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the people of…
Dhaka – The BNP on Sunday called upon the people as well as the party leaders and activists to resist the conspiracy being hatched against party chairperson Khaleda Zia to make her convict. “The government is hatching a conspiracy to…
Savar – Marking the Victory Day, Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities, on Saturday, paid homage to the martyred liberation war heroes, by placing a floral wreath at the National Memorial in Savar.
Mymensingh – Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) celebrated Victory Day in a befitting manner on 16 December.
BNP is going to bring out a ‘V-Day Rally’ in the city on Sunday celebrating the 47th Victory Day. The party will take out the rally from its Nayapaltan central office around 2pm, which will end at Mailbagh crossing, BNP…
The nation celebrated the 47th Victory Day paying deep homage to the Liberation War martyrs today (Saturday). On this day in 1971, Pakistani occupation forces surrendered after a nine-month war resulting in free, independent and sovereign Bangladesh.
An attractive Victory Day Parade to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the country’s victory, that had been achieved through the War of Liberation against Pakistani occupation forces in 1971, was held in the city today.
When the names of freedom fighters are long forgotten, their memory will live eternally in the Bangladesh soil that their blood helped fertilize Sir Frank Peters Today, December 16, is Victory Day… as if you didn’t know and wondered what…
The nation is set to celebrate the 47th Victory Day on Saturday with elaborate programmes to pay deep homage to the martyrs who laid down their lives for the country during the liberation war in 1971. On this day in…
Four intact child burials made more than 3,000 years ago are among a series of recent discoveries near the Egyptian city of Aswan, officials say. One of the burials found by a Swedish-Egyptian team still had the linen used to…
By Farid Ahmed Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Dec 14 (IPS) – Twelve-year-old Rubina still struggles with the horrors she witnessed in her homeland in Myanmar before fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh three months ago.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that whenever Awami League came to power it destroyed the spirit of the Liberation War. “We waged the Liberation War in 1971 with a dream to build a democratic and…
The contributions of Shaheed Intellectuals to the liberation of Bangladesh were recalled and a pledge was made at a discussion meeting organised to pay befitting respects to them by establishing their ideals of freedom of thought, expression.
Dhaka – The High Court on Thursday banned to use horn after 10.00pm and set the 20kmph speed limit at the residential and VIP areas of Dhaka city.
Dhaka, Dec 14 – BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that whenever Awami League came to power it destroyed the spirit of the Liberation War.
The nation observed the Martyred Intellectuals Day on Thursday commemorating the intellectuals who were killed systematically by the Pakistan occupation army and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
To discuss and deliberate the emerging issues and concerns in South Asia in the context of fallouts of neo-liberal economic policies adopted by all South Asian countries, SAAPE in collaboration with Social Scientists’ Association (SSA, Colombo) and Centre for Labour…