M Humayun Kabir: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader termed former chief justice SK Sinha’s book a fiction written from abroad and brewed with envy. He was speaking to reporters on Sinha’s new book just before holding meeting with party leaders coming from Pirojpur at Bangabandhu Avenue, reports The Daily Star. “He is now a…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy Director General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy : Crime is one of the most tremendous social burdens of our country. When the civilization started to progress and the economic and infrastructure started to develop, the crime started to increase. We are in the beginning of a new millennium. If we…
Desk Report: The Prime Minister’s Office has directed government officials for compulsory use of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on the routes where the national flag carrier operates flights, for air trips at government expense, reports The Daily Star. PMO issued a notification yesterday in this regard. It says ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers, MPs, those holding…
WHO(World Health Organization) The world now has more young people than ever before – of the 7.2 billion people worldwide, over 3 billion are younger than 25 years, making up 42% of the world population. Around 1.2 billion of these young people are adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years. Adolescence is a critical time…
BDnews24: Bangladesh is the second most gender equal country in Asia, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index. The 2018 report published on its website says the country has climbed several places since last year’s report, reaching 47th place in the global ranking. “Bangladesh has closed almost 72 percent of its overall…
Desk Report: A joint study has found that 4,300 acres of hills and forests have been cut down at Ukhia and Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar to make temporary facilities and cooking fuel for Rohingyas taking shelter there to flee ethnic cleansing in Myanmar since August 25, 2017, reports The New Age. About 3,000-4,000 acres of…
UNB: Social media will remain under surveillance to prevent provocation centering Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, said public security division secretary Mostafa Kamal on Wednesday. The secretary came up with the information while talking to reporters after a meeting with reporters on the overall law-and-order situation during the festival.
The Guardian, UK: Emmanuel Macron has appealed to his fellow European leaders to maintain their tough approach to Brexit in response to Theresa May’s demand for compromise and accusations that the French president wants to make Britain suffer. Macron, who is fighting a rearguard action against the rise of populism in Europe, said blocking…
AFP: Curious whistles and chirrups echo through the jungle around Kongthong, a remote village, but this is no birdsong. It’s people calling out to each other in music — an extraordinary tradition that may even be unique. Here in the lush, rolling hills of Meghalaya, mothers from Kongthong and a few other local villages compose…
Desk Report: Locals alleged that timber traders in collaboration with the president of Social Forestation Programme and a union parishad (UP) chairman in Gobindaganj upazila felled over 150 roadside trees without any permission from the authorities concerned, reports The Daily Star. Under the programme, local people planted over 1,000 Eucalyptus tree saplings along four kilometres…