AP, Sao Paulo Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that he believes his embattled successor and protege can survive mounting pressure in Congress for her impeachment. Silva told international journalists that President Dilma Rousseff will be able to resist even if leaders of a major ally, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party,…
AP, Athens The Greek government said Monday it will set up loudspeakers at the country’s border with Macedonia to try and persuade thousands of refugees and migrants to ignore false rumors that the Balkan route to central Europe will reopen. More than 15,000 people — nearly a third of the total stranded in Greece —…
AP, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his envoys are ready “to spare no effort” to restore the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara to its full operation and end the controversy with Morocco — as called for by the U.N. Security Council, the United Nations said Monday. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said…
BSS Roads and Highways (R&H) department in Rangamati has launched eviction drive to recover encroached lands worth over Tk. 100 crore at different places in the district. The Roads and Highways department launched eviction drive in Rangamati on Monday. Executive Magistrate of Chittagong Zone Abdul Mannan dismantled unauthorized structures of 61 families on Monday, said…
UNB A man was killed as part of a mud wall of his house collapsed on him at South Ramchandrapur in Kamalganj upazila early Tuesday. Quoting locals, police said Ayas Ali, 42, son of Cherag Mia, died on the spot as the mud wall collapsed on him in his sleep. Later, police recovered the body…
Jashim Uddin Badal “Sheikh Hasina is working to fulfill Bangabandhu’s dream of making Rajshahi- 4( Baghmara)’s people self-reliant.”, said MP Enamul Haque at a program arranged at LGED ministry on Monday. Speaking as a chief guest at Bangabandhu Complex in a card and aid giving program of LGED ministry among the fishermen and poor woman,…
BSS Speakers in a meeting of exchange of opinion yesterday stressed on removing drugs, militancy and corruption from the country to achieve the goal of making the country a developed one by 2041. Chapainawabganj district unit of Durnity Protirodh Committee arranged the meeting with the association of Chapainawabganj district administration in observance of Anti-Corruption Week-2016….
UNB A private car driver was injured in a gun attack by miscreants in the city’s Banani area on Monday midnight. The injured was identified as Tofazzal Hossain, 46, son of late Fazlul Karim, haling from Samanta Gosairhat of Shariatpur district. Inspector Mozammel Haque, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police camp, said Tofazzal…
Mazaharul Islam A research report published by ‘Work for a Better Bangladesh’ (WBB) says that 44% of the roads of Dhaka do not have footpaths on either side. It further illustrates that 82% of the footpaths in Dhaka are not in fit state to be used. The research was based on 6 busy locations of…
Mazharul Islam Garments Worker’s Organizations demanded Prime Minister and Law minister Anisul Haque to intervene for the implementation of house rent control law in a human chain formed in front of National Press Club on Tuesday. Bangladesh Garments Industry Federation President Towhidur Rahman said, “Thousands of garments workers live in this city, but a class…