Dhaka, Sept 11 – The ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader Monday said that the election-time government will be formed in the middle of October, in a bid to oversee the upcoming general elections scheduled to be held in…
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BNP Vice-Chairmen support move for greater national unity
Dhaka, Sept 10 – BNP vice chairmen at a meeting with party standing committee members on Monday extended their full support to the party move to forge a greater national unity with like-minded parties to force the government hold the…
The masses are mobilizing for climate leadership
by May Boeve, Christiana Figueres London – This year, extreme weather conditions have ravaged our planet, subjecting vulnerable communities around the world to the ever-increasing impacts of climate change. With each passing day, we learn more about – and experience…
BNP forms human chain with permission for Khaleda’s release
Dhaka, Sept 10 – As part of countrywide scheduled programmes, BNP leaders and activists formed a human chain in Dhaka city on Monday demanding their chairperson Khaleda Zia‘s release from jail.
Law minister claims BNP pleaders do not understand laws
Dhaka, Sept 9 – Law Minister Anisul Huq has claimed that BNP pleaders do not understand laws. The law minister made the comment while reporters asked him about the BNP’s allegations that the government could not issue a gazette notification…
NYT reflects free press’ deep roots in the US
Mostafa Kamal Majumder What the New York Times has done Last Thursday is nothing short of making a new history, publication of an anonymous opinion piece against the Trump administration that too from ‘a senior member’ of the said administration,…
Rooppur NPP pavilion at creates huge interest among visitors
Dhaka, Sept 8 – To create awareness about the modern nuclear power technology, safety and eco-friendliness of nuclear energy, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) set up a pavilion at a fair organized at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in…
Trump has 4 or 5 suspects for anonymous op-ed writer in NYT
Washington, Sept 8 (AP/UNB) — President Donald Trump says he can identify up to five people who could have written the anonymous New York Times opinion piece criticizing his leadership.
AL’s train tour electioneering in northern BD districts
Dhaka, Sept 8 – An Awami League delegation, led by party general secretary Obaidul Quader, left Dhaka Kamalapur Railway Station for Nilphamari by a train on Saturday morning, aiming to carry out electioneering in northern districts.
Positive move on finance vital to execute Paris Deal – G77
Bangkok, 7 Sept. 2018 (Prerna Bomzan) – At a joint-stocktake session of the Bangkok climate talks held on Sept 6 to assess progress on the work to produce a negotiating text for guidelines to implement the Paris Agreement (PA), developing countries called…
Khaleda wants medical treatment before trial: Counsels
Dhaka, 7 Sept – BNP’s jailed chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday demanded her medical treatment before carrying out trial process as she is very sick and her health condition is not good.
Hasina blasts Khaleda for court boycott remark
She welcomes move by Dr Kamal, B Chy to form an alliance Dhaka, Sept 6– Pointing at BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina questioned on Thursday how a citizen of the country can make an audacious remark that…
Vanuatu bans single-use plastics, why not other countries!
By Ralph Regenvanu Port Vila (IPS) – Cradled in the South Pacific, my home country Vanuatu is made mostly of the ocean. The Pacific covers 98 percent of the national jurisdiction. Here, some 280,000 Ni-Vanuatu like myself live simply off…
No hurry for new collective goal on finance, say Industrial nations
Bangkok, 6 September (TWN) – Developed countries are refusing to determine a process for setting a new collective quantified goal on finance under the Paris Agreement (PA), claiming that it was too early in the process to deal with this.…
Bangladesh now a ‘repressive state’: BNP
Claiming that its 1,500 leaders and activists were arrested and 80,000 unidentified people were made accused across the country in 12,000 cases over the last two weeks, BNP on Thursday said Bangladesh has now become a ‘repressive state’.
Khaleda’s legal notice against trial at old central jail
Dhaka, Sept 5 – BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia yesterday sent a legal notice to the government, to cancel the gazette notification that said the trial of Zia Charitable Trust graft case against her will be held at the old…
Opposition for greater unity with scant plan for fair polls
Dhaka, Sept 5 – Top leaders of opposition political parties at a discussion meeting in the city on Wednesday called for a greater unity on the basis of minimum-programme to ensure holding of the next general elections under a neutral…
BNP plans simultaneous movement with other BD parties in Oct
Abdur Rahman Jahangir, UNB Staff Writer Dhaka, Sept 5 – The opposition BNP is getting ready to launch a ‘brief but effective’ simultaneous movement with other opposition parties in October next to force the government to release Khaleda Zia and…
UNFCC parties work on guidelines to implement Paris Deal
Bangkok, 5 Sept. (Meena Raman and Prerna Bomzan) – Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), have gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, from Sept. 4 to 9, to accelerate work on producing a negotiating text on the…
UN Relief Works Agency will prevail despite US funding cut
Geneva, 3 Sep (Kanaga Raja) – Expressing deep regret and disappointment at the decision by the United States on 31 August to provide no additional funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East…
B Chy questions decency of PM’s remarks on Jukta Front
Dhaka, Sept 4 – Jukta Front Chairman AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday said the Prime Minister’s remarks at her press conference on the leaders of their alliance and Gano Forum were not decent ones.
30 JS seats for minorities if JP comes to power: Ershad
Dhaka, Sept 4 – Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Tuesday said 30 parliamentary seats will be kept reserved for the minority communities if his party comes to power.
What ails the Ganga
September 4, 2018 SANDRP The Ganga river basin’s importance is well acknowledged. The World Bank that is funding a currently ongoing USD 1 Billion project for Ganga Cleanup says in its Project Appraisal Document: It’s the most populous basin in…
BNP complains of random arrest of its workers in new cases
Dhaka, Sept 4 – The BNP on Tuesday accused the government of arresting party leaders and activists at random implicating them in new cases since its founding anniversary. The party also alleged that over 400 leaders and activists of the BNP…
God only knows
By Kathy Kelly “If they would just confirm to us that my brother is alive, if they would just let us see him, that’s all we want. But we can’t get anyone to give us any confirmation. My mother dies…
No hurry to use EVM, says PM adding ‘elections will be fair’
Dhaka, Sept 2 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the electronic voting machines (EVMs) should not be imposed hurriedly as the machines need to be introduced on a limited scale in national elections. “There’s an EVM system in…
Khaleda can either knock at court’s door or President’s: PM
Dhaka, Sept 2 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia can be freed from jail either by the court or through presidential clemency. “The government has nothing to do with it…she (Khaleda) has either to go…
AL must relinquish power before polls: BNP
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday trashed AL general secretary Obaidul Quader’s comment that Khaleda Zia’s release is not possible out of the legal process.
Left parties in BD smelling rat in EC’s pursuing of EVMs
Dhaka, Sept 1 – The move to introduce electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the national election has been initiated for ensuring the ruling party’s win in 100 constituencies in advance through digital-rigging, alleged Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) on Saturday.
BNP urges greater national unity for democracy, sovereignty
Dhaka, Sept 01 – The BNP on Saturday called upon all political parties, organizations and individuals to forge a greater national unity for the sake of democracy and sovereignty of the country by removing the current “autocratic regime.”