The U.S. Centers for Disease Control warned pregnant women Monday not to travel to an area in the southeastern state of Florida where new cases of Zika virus infections have been identified. Florida officials have discovered ten more cases of…
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Indian police arrest 15 in rape of mother, daughter
The gang rape of the mother and her 14-year-old daughter over the weekend has sparked outrage across the country. Police in northern India said on Sunday that they had detained 15 suspects after a woman and her 14-year-old daughter were…
‘Refugees, British men need lessons in how to treat women’
Male refugees starting a new life in the UK should be taught about women’s equality as part of a wider campaign aimed at all men in Britain, a Labour MP has suggested. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees chair Thangam Debbonaire…
15 female recruits of BGB join duty in Jessore
Dhaka – Fifteen members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB’s) first batch of female recruits have been assigned to active duty at Benapole check post on Monday morning, UNB news agency reported. Earlier, 97 female recruits formally joined the the paramilitary…
The psychology of ideology and religion
Robert J. Burrowes Two of the drivers of world affairs that manifest in the daily decisions that affect our lives are ideology and religion. Ideology is the term widely used to describe the underlying set of values, myths, ideas, attitudes,…
Traditional medicine for modern times: Facts and figures
Andrea Rinaldi and Priya Shetty review the facts, figures and challenges of mixing modern and traditional medicine. For millennia, people have healed with herbal or animal-derived remedies, using knowledge handed down through generations. In Africa, Asia, Latin America and the…
Legal notice seeks cancellation of common khutba
A legal notice has been served on the government to cancel the khutba (sermons) for Jum’a prayers fixed by the Islamic Foundation for all mosques across the country.Supreme Court lawyer SM Julfiker Ali Junu sent the legal notice to the…
Mosque Imam arreted for ‘anti-state speech’ in Noakhali
Dhaka – A mosque imam in Bandatta area of Kabirhat upazila was arrested by police for delivering anti-state speech during the Friday Juma prayers, UNB news agency reported.
Common Khutba sent to all mosques across the country
Dhaka-Bangladesh Islamic Foundation has again sent a common sermon (Khutba) to all mosques across the country for Juma prayer urging their Khatibs and Imams to follow the sermon during the Friday prayer.
World Heritage meeting reveals emerging threats to European sites
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee on 14 July expressed concern over three sites facing severe pressures from harmful industrial activities, but failed to take bold action to protect them. At the meeting, WWF objected to a sharp logging increase in…
Imams deliver ‘Khutba’ against militancy, terrorism
Imams of mosques across the country today delivered “Khutba” (sermon) before and after Jumma prayers highlighting the directives of the Holy Quran and Hadith against militancy and terrorism.”The Khutba cautioning the countrymen against unrest, militancy and terrorism was delivered almost…
UNESCO announces 4 new World Heritage Sites
UNESCO has put four new sites on its World Heritage List.The new sites, announced Friday, include China’s Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape, Iran’s ancient aqueducts known as Qanat, and India’s archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara.The World Heritage Committee also…
Call for delivering identical khutba in Friday prayer
Dhaka – The Islamic Foundation has urged all mosques across the country to follow the khutba (sermon), to be delivered at Baitul Mukarram National, during Juma prayers on Friday (July 15), UNB news agency has reported.
Rakhain temple monk hacked in Cox’s Bazar over land dispute
Dhaka – A monk of a Rakhain temple was hacked by a group of miscreants at Maillapar in the district town early Wednesday, UNB news agency reported. The injured monk of the ethnic community from Arakan of Myanmar was identified…
Two Hindu temple body chiefs complain of death threat letters
Khulna – Presidents of two Hindu temple committees have received death threats separately through letters from unknown sources in Arongghata area of the district, UNB news agency has reported.
Maharashtra probe finds no case against Zakir Naik
Dhaka, – Maharashtra State Intelligence Department (SID) has for now given a clean chit to preacher Zakir Naik, conceding that there is simply no case to be made out against the televangelist, UNB reported quoting India’s largely circulated newspaper, The…
Girls in rural Bangladesh take back their futures
By Naimul Haq BHOLA, Bangladesh, Jul 9 2016 (IPS) – Four years ago, Farzana Aktar Ruma, now 18, was almost married off without her consent. Her parents had settled on someone they considered a reasonably wealthy young man with a…
Indian minister threatens regulators, media, civil society over ILR
On June 7, 2016, (as widely reported by media[i]) Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti “threatened to go on hunger strike if the Ken-Betwa river linking project is further delayed and termed the attempt to delay the project by environmentalists…
Teenage girl falls victim to rapists in Jessore
Dhaka – A teenage girl was raped by a group of young men at Nehalpur in Manirampur upazila of Jessore district on Thursday night, UNB news agency reported. The victim filed a case against five people in connection with the…
How one man spread a killer virus in hospital
A single patient infected 82 people with the deadly MERS virus in an overcrowded South Korean emergency room in 2015, according to a scientific investigation released Saturday. The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, maps a lethal outbreak…
Eid-ul-Fitr Thursday
Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated in the country on Thursday as the moon of Shawwal month was not sighted in Bangladesh sky on Tuesday. The National Moon Sighting Committee took the decision in a…
Blast deaths near Islam’s holiest Saudi sites concern Bangladeshis
The suicide bomb attacks near the Madinah Masjid-e-Nababi mosque and in Jeddah have created serious concern among the Muslims in Bangladesh as many of their compatriots are now performing the Umrah at the holy sites, and tens of thousands others…
National moon sighting committee meets Tuesday
Dhaka – The National Moon Sighting Committee will meet on July 5 at the conference room of Islamic Foundation in the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque complex in the capital. The meeting will review information about moon sighting of the holy…
Lailatul Qadr observed
Dhaka – The holy Lailatul Qadr or Shab-e-Qadr, the holiest and most blessed night for Muslims, was observed across the country Saturday night with due solemnity and religious fervour.
Eighteen injured in Makkah stampede: Saudi media
Riyadh: Eighteen pilgrims have been injured in a stampede near Islam`s holiest site, Saudi media reported on Saturday, as the kingdom continues to review safety after a deadly crush during last year`s hajj.
Bringing back our girls not end of the story
By Aruna Dutt UN, (IPS) – “Wherever war reaches there is rape, and wherever rape is there is trauma, pain and terror” Zainab Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict said here last week. Sexual…
Mother and daughter reunited after 15 years
It takes over 15 hours to travel the 350 kilometres from Hossainpur, Kishoreganj to Khulna city. To Rahima Khatun (39), the journey seemed to last forever as she fidgeted in anticipation; was this really happening? Would she finally get to…
Media workers urged to work for liberation of Al-Quds Mosque
The Al-Quds Committee, Bangladesh on Wednesday urged the media workers to work in favour of the suffering people of Palestine on the Al-Quds Day which will be observed on 01 July, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan…
The ethics of asylum in early Muslim society
By Sharifah Nazneen Agha The advent of the Islamic faith was set against such formidable themes as persecution, asylum and migration. The watershed of Muslim history known as the Hijra or migration in 622 AC signifies the passage to safety…
IBBL Narayanganj, Nitaiganj Fatullah branches organise Iftar Mahfil
Narayanganj, Nitaiganj and Fatullah branch of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited jointly organized discussion on ‘Humane Banking in the light of Roza and Taqwa’ and Ifter Mahfil in a local community center of Narayanganj on June 22, 2016 Wednesady. Mohammad Abdul…