BSS: The parliamentary standing committee on Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs yesterday recommended increasing capacity of security forces in CHT areas so that they can further strengthen their activities there. The recommendation was made at its 33rd meeting held at Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban today with its chairman R.A.M. Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury in…
AFP: Sri Lanka’s national airline said Wednesday it has stopped serving cashews after the country’s president flew into a rage over nuts served to him on a flight to Colombo. “Returning from Kathmandu, I was served some cashews on board a Sri Lankan flight, but it was so bad even a dog wouldn’t eat it,”…
Kabir Humayun: BNP leaders and activists yesterday staged a token hunger strike in Dhaka demanding release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia and to ensure her better treatment. The token hunger strike began at 10am and continued till 12noon, reports The Daily Star. Senior BNP leaders, front and associate bodies’ leaders and hundreds of activists attended…
Kabir Humayun: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday left Dhaka for New York City at the invitation of UN Secretary General António Guterres. Party sources said the Emirates Airlines flight carrying Fakhrul accompanied by BNP executive committee member Tabith Awal took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 2am. Contacted, Shairul Kabir Khan,…
Hossen Sohel: Russian President Vladimir Putin, sitting on a stage alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, proposed yesterday that the two men sign a peace treaty by the end of this year, reports Reuters. The two countries are in dispute over a chain of Pacific islands and as a result have still not formally ended…
“This is not charity. This is business: business with an objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.” – Muhammad YunusOne day in 1976, an economics professor went to a poor village in the countryside of his home country of Bangladesh. He met a woman who made bamboo stools for a living. Although…
BRAC Maya Apa, a digital wellbeing assistant, is re-inventing the way people from all walks of life access specialist advice on health, lifestyle and legal matters. It combines AI and real doctors to connect users to experts. Maya Apa is one of BRAC’s socially-responsible investments that assist in the organisation’s mission to empower people and…
Reuters: The former bodyguard whose violent conduct plunged French President Emmanuel Macron into his biggest political crisis this summer agreed reluctantly to face questioning by senators as their hearings resumed on Wednesday. Alexandre Benalla, 26, is under criminal investigation after being filmed beating a May Day protester. The scandal brought the sharpest criticism Macron has…
Banglanews24: State minister for information Tarana Halim invited private TV channels to take service of the Bangabandhu-I satellite after successful launch and test operation or operational test or placement into orbit. The minister made the urge while speaking to reporters at the secretariat on Wednesday (September 12). Tarana Halim said, “Bangabandhu-1 satellite began its operational…
Banglanews24: Health Minister Mohammad Nasim announced that the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) to be modernized into a 5,000-bed hospital in a bid to improve the health service system of the country. We have plans and will implement it if we come to power in the next election, the minister added. Nasim made the…