Syed Nasir Ershad The global audience mostly judge Bangladesh in respect of the negatives or wrong reasons. They tend to look at Bangladesh in terms of whatever they can access or they are made known about. That is why, a first-time visitor gets awed as they touch down to Bangladesh.Yes, we have our share of…
Sayeed Muhammad For the first time since August last when the ethnic cleansing started in the Muslim-majority Rakhine state, Myanmar’s military has admitted its security forces and Buddhist villagers killed 10 Rohingya Muslims.Their bodies were found in a mass grave in a village in troubled Rakhine state, says the country’s army in first public acknowledgement…
Suzana Rahman The roads were completely gridlocked following protests over the arrival of a top religious scholar from India to attend the Biswa Ijtema, around the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka yesterday. A section of Tablig-Jamaat men joined the protesters blocking the Airport Road resulting in a gridlock stretching all the way to Tongi Bridge,…
Abrar Hussain Almost all international and domestic flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines were affected yesterday as demonstrations by a section of Tabligh Jamaat men in the Dhaka airport area way to Tongi Bridge, The Daily Star reports. Indian Tabligh-Jamaat Scholar Maulana Saad Kandhalvi reached the Dhaka airport by a Thai Airways flight around 1:00pm but he…
Abrar Hussain Two journalists from the Reuters news agency were charged by Myanmar prosecutors with violating the Official Secrets Act on Wednesday despite international condemnation, reports Abc News.Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested Dec. 12 after they were accused of breaking colonial-era law by acquiring “important secret papers” from two policemen who had worked…
Sabah Mannan With the repatriation of the Rohingyas under the arrangement signed on November 23, 2017, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Wednesday hoped for a new beginning with Myanmar. He remarked that the issue of Rohingya influx with Myanmar remained a threat in bilateral relations between the two countries and also added that India…
Abrar Hussain The UNICEF declared on Wednesday that Rohingya children need a political solution to the issue of legal identity and citizenship and in the interim they need to be recognized first and foremost as children, reports Daily Star.At a press briefing in Geneva, Unicef Spokesperson Marixie Mercado said, “The Convention on the Rights of the…
Sayeed Muhammad A Dhaka court has expressed its resentment on BNP chief Khaleda Zia and her lawyer as her late arrival delayed yesterday’s pre-scheduled hearing in the Zia Orphanage Trust case for nearly one hour and a half hour.According to the court sources, the defence lawyers were supposed to start placing closing argument in the graft…
Abrar Hussain Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that $1 billion as well as other properties belonging to the sons of Begum Khaleda Zia ere traced in Belgium, Malaysia, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, reports Bss. “Of them, 750 million dollars were traced in Belgium, 250 million dollars in Malaysia, while houses, markets and other property…
Abrar Hussain Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on Wednesday stated that Bangladesh is a safe place for foreigners as the government has taken the necessary measures to ensure security of foreign nationals, reports Bss.He made the comments when newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi called on him at the latter’s office here in…