Reuters: Qatar was accused on Monday of building stadiums for the 2022 football World Cup on land stolen from a tribe it has persecuted for more than 20 years. A delegation from the Al-Ghufran tribe handed a letter of protest to the game’s world governing body, FIFA, and demanded that Qatar be stripped of the…
Arab News: The UN and individual donors are rushing food to a desperate corner of northern Yemen where starving villagers were found to be living off leaves. Aid officials are searching for ways to ensure aid reaches those in need amid alarm that the country’s hunger crisis is worsening beyond the relief effort’s already strained…
Desk Report: The United Kingdom (UK) has announced new protections for vulnerable children at risk of falling prey to child labour, including a £5 million programme to support Bangladesh deliver its commitment of eliminating the worst forms of child labour in the country, reports the daily sun. Secretary of State for International Development of the…
Abrar Hussain: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud officially inaugurated a high-speed rail line connecting the holy cities of Mecca and Medina yesterday. The 450 km-long Haramain rail line will connect Mecca, Jeddah, King Abdulaziz International Airport, King Abdullah Economic City in Rabigh and Medina. Regular trains will start operating on the line…
The Us Bangla Fight number BS 211 that crashed due to the perilous landing at the premises of Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on March 12, 2018 has been the highlight of every news media in Bangladesh. The mournful event seized the heart of every citizen of this country and the bereaved families of the…
Hossen Sohel: Scientists claimed to have succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitos in the lab using a gene-editing tool to programme their extinction, reports AFP. So-called gene drive technology works by forcing evolution’s hand, ensuring that an engineered trait is passed down to a higher proportion of…
Kabir Humayun: The BNP will now hold its rally on September 29 instead of September 27 in Dhaka. “I announced yesterday that the rally will be held on Thursday. It has been changed. Now the rally will be held on Saturday at the Suhrawardy Udyan,” said BNP Joint Senior Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi,…
Dr. Foqan Uddin Ahmed: Digitaliza-tion in Bangl-adesh sta-rted in the year 2008 through th-e announcement of the election manifesto by honorable Prime Minister, aiming to achieve sustainable development goals by 2021. It was manifested again in the 2014 election for the purpose of building knowledge based society and achieving the status of a developed country…
Anadolu Agency: The U.S. on Monday announced giving over $185 million in additional aid to Rohingya relief efforts in Myanmar and Bangladesh.The announcement was made by U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, at a meeting attended by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. In a statement, Haley said the bulk of the aid would go…
Hossen Sohel: The government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with five state-owned financial enterprises to sanction home loans for its employees, reports bdnews24.com. Md Jafar Uddin, an additional secretary of the finance ministry, singed the deals with the managing directors of Sonali, Janata, Agrani and Rupali banks and Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation in…