By Upendra Gautam The analytical piece “It is time to be a good neighbor” by Ms. Rao and Mr. Pokharel (Hindu, 17 October, 2015) has done a commendable job by questioning India’s so-called “special relationship” with Nepal. In my view,…
Category: Int’l relations
Highest security measures taken to ensure Ashura & Durga Puja
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia on Sunday said highest security measures have been taken to ensure smooth observance of Holy Ashura and celebration of Durga Puja.
Philippines hit by Typhoon Koppu
A powerful typhoon is battering the northern Philippines, with at least one person dead, several missing and thousands forced to flee their homes.Typhoon Koppu made landfall near the town of Casiguran on the island of Luzon on Sunday morning, bringing…
Imran receives death threat
Dr Imran H Sarker, a organizer of a faction of Ganajagaran Manch, received death threat through his facebook Id on Saturday morning.
Conspiracy to halt Bangladesh progress: Menon
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon has criticised countries that have issued travel alerts for their citizens planning to visit Bangladesh following the killing of two foreigners.He said he believed a ‘conspiracy’ was on to thwart Bangladesh’s progress.“As…
Five killed in attack on Ashura event of Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority
Five people have been killed and nine wounded in an attack on a Shia gathering hall in eastern Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry says. The killings, in Saihat in Eastern Province on Friday, come two days after the start of…
EU approves Turkey action plan
EU states have approve an action plan for Turkey that it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe.Nearly 600,000 migrants have reached the EU by sea so far this year, many of them travelling from Turkey to…
BNP demand judicial enquiry of killing of 2 foreign nationals
STAFF REPORTER BNP yesterday demanded judicial inquiry into the killings of two foreigners as what it claimed that all the law enforcing agencies failed to unravel the mystery behind the two murders.
Syrian Kurds demolishing villages captured from IS
Kurdish forces have carried out a wave of forced displacement and mass house demolitions – amounting to war crimes – in northern Syria, a rights group says.A report by Amnesty International accuses the Popular Protection Units (YPG) of razing entire…
UK removed guard outside Ecuadorean Embassy hideout of WikiLeaks founder Assange
British police on Monday removed a round-the-clock guard from outside the Ecuadorean Embassy hideout of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying it wasn’t “proportionate” to keep up the operation when no end to the three-year stalemate is in sight.
Russia’s State Atomic Energy Cor.signed a MoU with Bolivia
Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM and the Ministry of Hydrocarbon and Energy of Bolivia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation for the peaceful uses of atomic energy.
Secretary accused religion minister for Hajj rent fraud
Secretary to the Ministry of Religious Affairs Chowdhury Md Babul Hassan has denied having anything to do with alleged embezzlement of money from house of 5,000 pilgrims in Saudi Arabia during the Hajj.These pilgrims were sent to Saudi Arabia at…
IS figures killed in air strike
Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group’s reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them, residents of the town and…
Paris climate negotiations ‘need redesign’?
The UN climate negotiations are heading for failure and need a major redesign if they are to succeed, scientists say. The pledges that individual countries are offering ahead of the Paris climate summit in December are too entrenched in self…
EU heads of missions discuss security at monthly meet
Dhaka – Heads of missions of the European Union (EU) held its ‘routine’ monthly meeting here on Sunday discussing various issues of cooperation and future works. A diplomatic source said it was just a routine meeting to enhance coordination among…
Turkey tries to seek out bombers
Thousands mourned the 95 victims of Turkey’s deadliest attack in years as state inspectors tried Sunday to identify who sent suicide bombers to a rally promoting peace with the country’s Kurdish rebels.
B Chy urges to form a national government
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Sunday urged the Prime Minister to form a national government to overcome the country’s ‘current critical condition’.
Nothing to worry as all security measuresfor foreign nationals: IGP
Dhaka-Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque on Sunday said there is nothing for the foreign nationals to be worried about their security as Bangladesh is a safe land.
World Bank may give $250 million: Muhith
The World Bank might give Bangladesh $250 million in budgetary support, not $500 million as it had offered earlier this year, Finance Minister AMA Muhith says.However, there are no problems over issuing the $1 billion Taka Bond by its lending…
Developing countries for balanced approach to intellectual property
Geneva, Mirza Alas – Developing countries stressed the need for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to have a balanced approach to intellectual property during their general statements at the 55th Assemblies of the organization’s Member States. The 55th Assemblies…
Pentagon to make payments to Kunduz air strike families
US Department of Defence to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of US air strike on Afghan hospital. The Pentagon is to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of a US air strike that mistakenly hit a Doctors…
96 dead 200 hurt in twin explosions at Ankara peace rally
Two explosions at a peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara have killed at least 96 people and wounding 200, the country’s health minister said. TV footage shows scenes of panic and people lying on the ground covered in blood,…
Israeli-Palestinian violence spreads over Gaza border
Fresh violence between Palestinians and Israelis has seen six Palestinians shot dead in Gaza, reports say, and a fresh spate of stabbings. Israel said its troops fired over the Gaza border after coming under attack. Earlier, police said there had…
No lacking to ensure foreign nationals security
The government is leaving nothing to chance when it comes to providing security to foreigners, the home minister has said after the UK in a new alert feared that westerners may face fresh attacks in Bangladesh.
UK updated travel alert for its nationals in Bangladesh further attacks
Despite having tight security measures in place, the United Kingdom on Friday updated its travel alert for its nationals in Bangladesh saying further attacks targeting westerners may occur.
National Grid-UK wins IACCM Innovation Awards 2015
IACCM announced the 2015 Global Innovation Awards Winners during the annual Americas Forum in Nevada.
Mobile court punishes fish traders for selling contaminated fish
A Rapiod Action Battalion mobile court sentenced eight fish trader to one month to one year simple jail term and seized 600 kgs of shrimp and 700 kgs of banned African magur fish (Cat fish) raiding three fish wholesale markets…
Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize
A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet “for its decisive contribution to the building…
Bangladesh in CPJ’s 2015 Global Impunity Index
The Imputiny index prepared by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free, says latest report published in the CPJ website. The ambush of a convoy in South Sudan…
Nobel for literature: Svetlana Alexievich ‘monument to sufferings, courage’
By Alexander Kan Svetlana Alexievich – this year’s Nobel laureate for literature – says her approach is to let “human voices speak for themselves”. She first came to prominence in 1985 when, as a 23-year-old journalist in the Soviet Union,…