As we mark International Women’s Day, we celebrate the progress made in improving women’s inclusion and empowerment, while seeking to better address continuing challenges, which are estimated to cost South Asian economies $888 billion, through devising and implementing solutions that…
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Bangladesh Muslims celebrate Eid festival of sacrifice
The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of Muslims has been celebrated in Bangladesh. This Eid was of special significance because its central theme is making sacrifice for the satisfaction of Allah Almighty It’s a tradition that has descended…
Who is talking about current world news and why
Find Out Who is Talking About Current World News and Why You Should Be Concerned Yet, there’s always some great news. You’ll eventually be presented with various current world news story thumbnails. You can refrain from being this kind of…
Happy New Year 2016
The red sun rose on the eastern horizon this morning heralding the New Year 2016, bidding farewell to an eventful 2015 into eternity, with new promises as well as challenges for the people of Bangladesh as for those of the…
Victory Day pledge: Achieve ideals the shaheeds cherished
The nation celebrates the 45th Victory Day today with patriotic fervor and a fresh vow to achieve the ideals the Shaheeds of the glorious War of Liberation – who made possible the victory through their supreme sacrifices – cherished. The…
The Net-Zero Imperative
by Eric Beinhocker,Myles Allen Oxford – The world has reached an historic agreement on climate change. The deal concluded at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris commits countries to take steps to limit warming to “well below” 2º…
Hajj pilgrimage management under fire
The death of 769 people in a stampede at Mina near the holy city of Makkah has not only cast a gloom on the Eid celebrations in the Muslim world but also created a big tension as some countries. Iran…
Arrest warrant against 28 Bnp leaders in car torching case
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Sunday issued arrest warrants against 28 leaders and activists of BNP-led 20-party alliance in a case filed on the charge of crude bomb attack on a passenger bus in Mirpur area of…
Myanmar to have more peace, progress from its diversity
Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali has told the secreary general of OIC – Organisation of islamc Conference in Kuwait the other day that calling Rohingya Muslims Bangladeshis does not tally with history, as the Rohingyas came from many neighbouring countries since…
Saving Rohingyas, the worst persecuted people on earth
The death of at least 100 migrants in fight over food that shrank in supplies in boats that carried them at sea near Indonesia has shaken the mind of all people irrespective of geographical, poitical, reigious or ethnic divides, but…
For befitting respects to language martyrs
Amor Ekushey is being observed all over the country on Saturday with due solemnity. People from all walks of life and ages are walking to shaheed minars in barefoot processions and offering fateha to the graves of the Shaheeds of…
Law enforcers cannot be judges to shoot at people
Two recent remarks made by the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Dr. Mizanur Rahman have irked a section of the police administration because those challenged the police’s discretion to shoot at people on the charge of being extremists…
Stop professing end of communications
A communications man said in a tv talk show the other day that the mass media in the country are doing a great disservice by airing the view points of the relatives of war crimes convicts. ‘They have no say,…
GreenWatch Dhaka mourns Dr MS Haq
Dr MS Haq, the prolific writer who used to fill the Green Corner of this online newspaper, is no more. He died of a massive heart attack in Dhaka on late Monday afternoon. He was buried near his parents’ graves…
Shaheed Day pledges
Sixteen crore people of Bangladesh once again recall the supreme sacrifices of the language martyrs who symbolised the spirit of love and respect for the mother tongue and the right to democracy and self-determination in the then East Pakistan. They…