UNB BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed yesterday said they are thinking of filing a writ petition with the High Court against the fictitious cases filed against their leader and activists. “We are seriously considering filing of a writ petition with the High Court against the fictitious cases,” he said Speaking at a press conference at…
Arab News Houthi militia bombed a medical center in Al-Khokha directorate in Hodeidah, Yemen, Friday. The number of casualties is still unknown. Iran-backed Houthi militia have been forcing residents near battlefronts in the south and east of Hodeidah to leave their homes and move elsewhere.The Houthis have also turned some buildings and houses belonging to…
Desk Report The government is going to bring changes in primary school teacher recruitment policy, fixing the graduation as minimum academic qualification for females. At present, female candidates with Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and males with bachelor’s degree can apply for the post of assistant teacher in government primary schools. As per the new policy,…
UNB Customs officials seized a huge number of illegal motor parts from a truck which was brought here with a false declaration at Benapole Port on Tuesday night. Benapole Customs Commissioner Belal Hossain Chowdhury said Apex Footwear Ltd imported the motor parts with ten tons of adhesive materials from India. A case was filed in…
K.M Mithu, Tangail Situated along near the Dhaka-Tarakandi Highway near Gopalpur upazila is the Muktijoddha Nyapara Government Primary School. Almost a hundred students – all of them children of the farmers living in the river eroded region – study in this institution situated roughly 20km west from the upazila sadar. The 30-year-old school building is…
M Humayun Kabir : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged her party leaders and workers not to be over complacent about coming back to power in the next election. She made the call to party leaders to work together to help win of the candidates in all constituencies in the upcoming polls, reports BSS. “We should…
CNN A senior scientist has given what has been described as a “highly offensive” presentation about the role of women in physics, the BBC has learned. At a workshop organised by Cern, Prof Alessandro Strumia of Pisa University said that “physics was invented and built by men, it’s not by invitation”. He said male scientists…
Al Jazeera Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, whose arrest last year drew international condemnation, has been honoured by Spanish football club Real Madrid after she was released from Israeli prison. The 17-year-old was arrested in December 2017 after a video of her slapping and hitting two Israeli soldiers outside of her house in the village of…
Wion Bangladesh has postponed plans to begin relocating Rohingya Muslims to a remote island, officials said Monday, amid staunch opposition to the controversial idea among refugees living near the Myanmar border. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was slated to open the new settlement built to house 100,000 refugees on Bhashan Char on October 3, despite…
Abrar Hussain James Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries leading to breakthroughs in cancer therapy, according to a statement released yesterday by the award-giving body. “Allison and Honjo showed how different strategies for inhibiting the brakes on the immune system can be used in the…