Bangkok (BSS/AFP) – Well-wishers kept up their vigil outside a Bangkok hospital on Thursday, offering prayers for ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej as deeply polarised Thailand faces the prospect of losing its figure of unity. Bhumibol, 88, is the world’s longest…
By Franklin Lamb Shatila Palestinian Refugee camp, Beirut: The intense summer heat was gone and the evening was breezy and cool that fateful Thursday evening, September 15, 1982, according to survivors of the Sabra-Shatila Massacre who, 34 years later, still…
Dhaka – Members of Shia community took out a ‘Tajia’ procession from Hosni Dalan in the old part of the city on the occasion of holy Ashura on Wednesday morning amid tight security measures taken by the law enforcement agencies,…
Dhaka – Bangladesh has been placed at 111 on the Girls’ Opportunity Index, a report published by Save the Children. The report has ranked 144 countries according to opportunities provided to ensure development of girls.Bangladesh has been placed in the…
Dhaka – Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, ended on Tuesday with the immersion of goddess Durga in the capital and elsewhere across the country.
Dhaka – Archbishop Patrick D’Rozario, the highest ranking priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the country, has been promoted to cardinal, the first ever to reach such a high position from Bangladesh. Pope Francis on Sunday promoted D’Rozario and…
New York : At the recent United Nations General Assembly in New York, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon predicted the Paris Climate Change Agreement would enter into force before 2017, announcing 60 countries had now ratified its terms. This week, the…
Anger among Republicans continues to rise after the release of a 2005 video recording of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump making lewd remarks about women, despite his apology. “I said it. I was wrong and I apologize,” Trump said in…
Monica Lewinsky tends to avoid politics these days, after becoming instantly famous nearly 20 years ago as the White House intern who had an affair with President Bill Clinton.Unfortunately for Lewinsky, the 2016 presidential race keeps getting stuck in the…
Dhaka – Jamdani, the country’s one of the finest muslin textiles, is going to get registration by this month as Bangladesh’s first Geographical Indication (GI) product.Senior Secretary of the Industries Ministry M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan made the disclosure while addressing…
Dhaka: The five-day Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, begins across the country on Friday. The annual festival will begin through Mahashashthi Puja on Friday and end with the immersion of the goddess’ idols on Bijoya…
Dhaka – A three-tier security measures will be taken around Imambara Hoseni Dalan to ensure smooth observance of Holy Ashura, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia on Thursday, UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka-Chairman of national human rights commission Bangladesh (NHRCB) Kazi Reazul Hoque on Wednesday urged the police to submit charge sheet of the case of attack on Sylhet college student khadiza begum immediately to ensure punishment of the attacker.
Dhaka – Students of Home Economics College confined Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid to Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics (Banbeis) building demanding that their college be declared an institute under Dhaka University (DU), UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka – Prominent women journalists from around the South Asian region have joined hands against the war hype between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. In a joint statement of Sepember 30, 2016, they urged political leaders and their colleagues in the…
Melbourne – While combination antiretroviral therapy has meant that people with HIV can live longer lives, research shows that the virus makes fundamental changes to the immune system by increasing the risk of developing age-related conditions.
Dhaka – A woman was beaten to death allegedly by her husband, co-wife and two step sons at Kanai Mridha Guchchho village in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali district on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Kulsum Begum, 20, wife…
US reality TV star Kim Kardashian West has been robbed at gunpoint at a luxury residence in Paris by at least two men dressed as police officers, her publicist and police say. A box containing jewellery worth up to €6m…
Aboard The Papal Plane (AP/UNB) — Pope Francis will visit Portugal next year and is “almost sure” he’ll go to India and Bangladesh. Still to be determined is where in Africa he’ll visit and whether Colombia’s peace accord is “certain,…
A teenage blogger has been handed a prison sentence after he was found guilty by a Singapore court of “wounding religious feelings”. Amos Yee, 17, will spend six weeks in jail for deliberately posting videos and comments critical of Christianity…
Dhaka—Education is essential for empowering women to achieve gender equality, which in turn is vital for sustainable development. This is confirmed in a new Gender Review by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report, released one week before International Day of the…
Dhaka – Versatile writer Syed Shamsul Haq was buried on the Kurigram Govt College premises in his birthplace Kurigram district on Wednesday as per his last wish, UNB news agency reported. The eminent writer was buried abound 5 pm after…
Dhaka – The mortal remains of BNP standing committee member Brig. Gen. (Retd) ASM Hannan Shah was brought to Dhaka from Singapore on Wednesday evening. “Hannan Shah’s body was brought to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a Bangladesh Airlines flight…
Some Teachers and Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) formed a human chain demanding justice for brutal killing of Manoshi Rani, relative of a JU Teacher, at the JU campus on Tuesday.
Dhaka – A meeting of the Shari`ah Supervisory Committee of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was held on September 27, 2016 Tuesday at Islami Bank Tower. Mufti Moulana Sayeed Ahmad, Vice-Chairman of the Committee and Chief Mufti & Muhaddis of Al…
The new committee of Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, BNP’s women wing, was announced on Tuesday with Afroza Abbas, wife BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, its president and Sultana Ahmed general secretary.Nurjahan Yasmin has been made its senior vice president, while…
Noted journalist and former leader of the journalist community Kamal Lohani said on Monday that the works of Ataus Samad should be preserved as an asset for the development of the journalists’ skills and practical knowledge.
Hazem Badr [Cairo] Egyptian researchers have developed a bandage embedded with nanoparticles for the treatment of wounds using the anti-epilepsy drug Phenytoin, known for its capacity to treat skin injuries. The bandage can heal wounds in a few days, after…
Dhaka – BNP standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah passed away at a hospital in Singapore early Tuesday. He was 76, UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka – The government is formulating a “practical” and “application” based Tourism Master Plan (TMP) to explore all the untapped potential, which is the also a motto of World Tourism Day.