Sayeed Muhammad: The Supreme Court (SC) today is going to hear two appeal petitions that challenged the High Court order staying the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election for three months.The full bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, will hear the petitions filed by mayoral candidates of AL and BNP Hasan…
Sayeed Muhammad: Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan was elected as the country’s new prime minister as he capped a peaceful revolution driven by weeks of mass protests against corruption and cronyism in the ex-Soviet republic.However, Russia is wary of an uncontrolled change of power which would pull the country out of its orbit, despite Pashinyan…
Tahmeed Taha: The Nigerian army had rescued more than 1,000 Boko Haram captives in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, it said on Monday. Military spokesman Texas Chukwu said in a statement that the hostages were mainly women and children. There were also some young men among the hostages, who had been forced to become Boko Haram…
Tahmeed Taha: Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, spewing molten rock and high levels of sulfur dioxide, erupted on Thursday. Four days after the eruption, lava and hazardous fumes continued to spew on Hawaii’s Big Island on Monday. 35 structures including at least 26 homes had been destroyed and a total of 12 fissures have formed, including…
The Suppli-mentary Budget for the FY 2017-18 and Proposed Budget for FY 2018-19 are under preparation in the kitcehen of the Ministry of Finance. According to the legislative rules and procedure, the Supplimentary Budget will be cleared within a week after it is placed and the Proposed Budget will be passed by Parliament by June…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed Tagore was born in 1861, a period during which the nationalist movement in India was crystallizing and gaining momentum. The first organized military uprising by Indian soldiers against the British Raj occurred in 1857, only four years before the poet was born. In 1905, the swadeshi movement broke out on his…
Tahmeed Taha: Office timings for Ramadan have been fixed by the government. The timings for the May-June month will be from 9:00am to 3:30pm. The decision was made yesterday at a cabinet meeting which was presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office. At a press brief ing held at the Secretariat in…
It is the job of civil administration to ensure peace in the hill tracts. We can say based on what we see now is that the law and order situation there is deteriorating. If it was the other way around, there must not have so many killings. We have to take control over the situation….
Considering the reality of this country, everything matches the thoughts of ordinary people. BNP always talks for the citizens. Election to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) election was scheduled to be held, but it was postponed later on. Then they (Awami League) halted the Gazipur city election through a writ petition and by that,…