BSS Legal and economic experts at a seminar today laid emphasis on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for downsizing the backlog of cases, settling the disagreements outside the courtroom. “The magnitude of unresolved trade and business disputes and litigation are on the gradual rise. Informal but globally recognized outside-court settlement process is a milestone and proven…
BSS Land Minister and language movement veteran Shamsur Rahman Sharif today said the language movement led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had later turned into the movement for self-rule and autonomy. “The language movement took place under the dynamic leadership of Bangabandhu,” he said speaking as the chief guest at a discussion meeting marking the…
BSS Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 12 bars of gold worth around Taka 50 lakh and arrested a woman from Abdullahpur bus-stand under Uttara West thana today. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-1 led by Assistant Superintendent of Police Mohammad Najibul Hasan Rajib conducted a special drive at the bus-stand area…
BSS The White House pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday to expand his non-militarization pledge to cover the entire South China Sea, despite Beijing’s recent military activity in the area. Daniel Kritenbrink, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, spoke amid rising tensions between the two countries over China’s deployment of…
Md. Shafaat Ullah Continuing from the last two decades, the 21st Conference of the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” widely known as COP, was held in Paris, from 30 November to 11 December 2015. Since 1995, this conference is held every year in a different country with participation of 196 parties to evaluate…
BSS An Australian icebreaker that ran aground in Antarctica during a blizzard has been refloated, officials said Saturday as they work to bring the vessel’s expeditioners home. The Aurora Australis ran aground with 68 people on board after breaking its moorings on Wednesday and was stuck on rocks at Horseshoe Harbour, close to Australia’s Mawson…
BSS Marilyn Nevalainen was just 15 years old, and pregnant, when she left Sweden with a jihadist recruit, though she did not realise what a mistake she had made until she was in Iraq. Desperate, she called home from the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq begging for help, and was ultimately rescued…
BSS France’s countryside comes to Paris on Saturday as the agricultural expo kicks off, the annual opportunity for urbanites to channel their inner peasants and politicians to burnish their farm cred. Strutting cows, prize pigs and splendid cockerels will preen for the cameras as nearly 700,000 visitors — a third of them children under 12…
BSS Iran was expected to announce preliminary results Saturday from elections for parliament and a second poll to pick a powerful group of clerics who appoint the country’s supreme leader. Coming just a month after sanctions were lifted under Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, the outcome of Friday’s voting is being seen as a…
BSS Calm prevailed Saturday across much of war-ravaged Syria on the first day of a landmark ceasefire, as a task force led by Moscow and Washington prepared to begin monitoring the truce. On the stroke of midnight, firing stopped in suburbs around the capital and the devastated northern city of Aleppo, AFP correspondents said, after…