Dhaka, Apr 11 – Police arrested 85 more people, including six activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, in a special drive from different parts of Jhenidah district on Tuesday.
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Poland, new player in Islamophobia game
By Claudia Ciobanu Warsaw, Apr 8 (IPS) – Ameer Alkhawlany moved to Poland in September 2014 to pursue a Master’s in biology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland’s second largest city. Two years later, the Polish state awarded him…
JU runner-up in University Games, bags 12 golds
Anas Uddin Ovi Savar, Dhaka – Winning a total of 20 medals including 12 gold medals, Jahangirnagar University (JU) became ‘runner up’ in 5 th Bangladesh University Games’17, held at BUET and DU premises. A press release from the university’s…
SC clears Habiganj mayor Gaus to resume office
Dhaka – The Supreme Court yesterday (Sunday) cleared the way for Habiganj municipality Mayor GK Gaus to resume his official duties.
Proclamation of Independence Day Monday
Bangladesh is set to recall April 10 as part of revisiting the history as on this day in 1971 the nation saw installation of its first sovereign government with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The provisional government was…
JU Socialist Students Front protests Tuition fees hike bid
Savar, Dhaka – Denouncing govt’s bid to hike tuition fees, Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit, brought out a procession here on the campus yesterday (Saturday).
Developing nations seek funding tech to battle climate change
The negative fallout from climate change has not only severely impacted on the world’s developing nations but also eroded development gains undermining and delaying the achievement of the 17goals under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Climate-Summit-Social-Media“We are already taking…
Indonesian man faced caning for gay sex
Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province each face up to 100 strokes of the cane after neighbours reported them to sharia police for having gay sex. Marzuki, the sharia police’s chief investigator, said on Saturday that residents in the…
Strengthening Kenya’s resilience to disaster
By Miriam Gathigah Nairobi, Apr 7 (IPS) – Kenya’s lack of capacity to cope with wide-scale disaster has seen thousands of households continue to live precarious lives, especially in light of erratic and drastically changing weather patterns. If millions are…
20 dead in Myanmar boat crash
YANGON, April 8, 2017 (BSS/AFP) – At least 20 people were killed when their passenger boat collided with a river barge at night in western Myanmar, authorities said Saturday, with more feared drowned as rescue workers renewed their search in…
Suspected terrorist killed in ‘gunfight’ on Southwest BD
Dhaka, Apr 8 – A suspected terrorist was killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of terrorists in Kholadanga area of Jessore district town early Saturday.
Career fest begins at Hasina Youth Dev Centre
Savar, Dhaka – A two day-long jobs fair, titled ‘Career Fest 2017’, began yesterday (Friday) at Sheikh Hasina Youth Development Centre (SHYDC), adjacent to the JU campus.
Girl found living with monkeys
Police in northern India are searching lists of missing children to try to identify a girl believed to have been living with monkeys. The little girl, aged between eight and 10, was found a few weeks ago in a forest…
Green power: Wave of the future
By Françoise d’Estais, Angus McCrone & Ulf Moslener Paris/Frankfurt/London, Apr 6 (IPS) – The price of renewable energy — especially solar power — continues to tumble, and the result is more green power generating capacity for fewer dollars. That’s the…
‘2001 national polls had conspiratorial outcome’
Dhaka, Apr 6 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the 2001 national election had a result of a huge conspiracy against her party and she was a witness to it. “I was the direct witness to that incident…
Career fest begins wednesday at JU
Savar, Dhaka – A two day-long jobs fair, titled ‘Career Fest 2017’, begins today at Sheikh Hasina Youth Development Center (SHYDC), adjacent to the JU campus. In collaboration with jobsBD.com, Forum of Entrepreneurship and Business (FEB) of Jahangirnagar University (JU)…
Four more eco-parks along rivers planned
Dhaka – The government will construct four more eco-parks along river banks to protect them from encroachment and for the development of environment including recreation for the city dwellers, shipping minister Shajahan Khan has said yesterday.
Commuters suffer as roads closed for ulema rally
Dhaka – Dhaka city residents on Thursday experienced huge sufferings due to the closure of roads enforced for congregation of Ulema, Imams and Islamists in the city’s Suhrawardi Udyan.
Homosexuals fleering Chechnya
A Russian LGBT activist group says it has received more than 10 appeals for help from homosexuals in Chechnya seeking to flee the southern Russian republic, where local authorities are accused of targeting homosexuals in an “unprecedented” campaign of persecution.…
Simmering health crisis of rape victims of war
Claudine repeatedly slams her hand against the table as she talks. Bang, bang, bang. She tells me after yelling and beating at the door, the men eventually broke it, pushing into her home in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura. They gang raped…
Train derails at Bhuapur, snaps Dhaka’s rail link with north
Dhaka, Apr 6 – Dhaka’s train communication with the country’s northern region remained suspended as three bogies and the locomotive of a train derailed near Bangabandhu Bridge at Pathailkandi in Bhuapur upazila of Tangail early Thursday.
Sayedee verdict review case in SC Cause list
Dhaka – The Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Wednesday included the review petitions, filed by the government and convicted war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayedee, against its verdict in the case filed against Sayedee for his war crimes, in its…
One sentenced to gallows for rape and killing teenage girl
Dhaka – The Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 of Dhaka on Wednesday sentenced a man to death in his absence for killing a teenage girl after rape and later he cut the body into 26 slices in the capital’s…
Mashrafe left too soon, but Bangladesh have replacements
Mashrafe Mortaza’s sudden decision to retire from T20 internationals is a surprise, because it comes when Bangladesh cricket is at its most stable. The unique timing of Mashrafe’s announcement, at the toss for the first T20I against Sri Lanka in…
‘Investing in rural youth must to stem migration crisis’
Rome, 3 April – Ensuring young people in rural areas can access financing and earn decent incomes is essential to stem migration to Europe and elsewhere, said Gilbert F. Houngbo, who began his term as the sixth President of the…
Indonesian farmers weather climate change with conservation agri
By Kanis Dursin Jakarta, Mar (IPS) – Fifty-two-year-old farmer Theresia Loda was effusive when asked how conservation agriculture has changed her economic situation. “My corn harvest has increased fourfold per season since I started practicing conservation agriculture,” Loda told IPS…
Attorney gets bail in War Crimes verdict leakage case
Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail for one-year bail to Barrister AFM Fakhrul Islam, convicted in the case filed in connection with the leakage of the draft verdict in the war crimes…
Death reduced to life-term in child Rakib murder case
Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday reduced the death sentence given to two convicts of child Rakib Hawlader murder case to life term imprisonment.
Global productivity slowdown risks creating instability, warns IMF
The head of the International Monetary Fund has issued a stark warning that living standards will fall around the world unless governments take urgent action to increase productivity by investing in education, cutting red tape and incentivising research and development.…
HC asks authorities to produce Oishee in court
Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday (Monday) ordered prison authorities to produce Oishee Rahman, sentenced to death for killing her parents, before it on April 10 to observe her mental status.