Raj Abrar: Nine more suspected drug peddlers have been killed in countrywide anti-narcotics crackdown from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, according to Banglanews24 correspondents from Rangpur, Kushtia, Cumilla, Feni, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Thakurgaon, and Jamalpur.In Kushtia, two drug dealers Fatik alias Gaffar Sheikh, 37, and Liton Sheikh, 40 were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ with police in Kumarkhali…
Afrida Ahmed: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh Hasina today at Shantiniketan which is 160 km from Kolkata, reports hindubusinessline. Modi will address the convocation at Visva-Bharati University in Rabindranath Tagore’s home, Shantiniketan, where Hasina will be present as well. Modi and Hasina are expected to have bilateral talks and together launch…
Sejuti Mourin: The Election Commission yesterday approved the proposed City Corporation (election code of conduct) Rules 2018, allowing Members of Parliaments (MPs) to participate in city corporation election campaigns. The approval came at the EC meeting held at Nirbachan Bhaban in the city with Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda in the chair.“The Commission has approved…
Sofian Khan: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday mentioned the replacement of one lakh of the displaced Rohingya minorities to Bhasanchar Island in Noakhali will initiate soon for giving them shelter there until their repatriation. The Prime Minister came up with her remarks while UN Under Secretary General and Executive Director of the United Nations Population…
Prof. Dr. Shamsul Alam, Energy Advisor, CAB: Both public and private engagement is needed to extract gas for the power and energy sector. Allocation of proper investment needed as per demand to lift the coal from Barapukuria in order to increase the oil import and electricity production. Investment sector should meet parity while allocating funds….
Ashiq Rahman: Economist and the former chairman of Rupali Bank, Dr Ahmed Al Kabir, says private banks lending from state-owned banks is totally unfair. He also thinks that it is unexpected that the private banks seek loan on a low interest from the state-run banks. His comments came in a recent interview. Why would the…
Md. Shamsul Islam, Executive Editor, Our Time: I was quite amused to see in our media that a woman activist of the outlawed Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), was arrested lately in Mymensingh who allegedly motivated her elder daughter to emigrate or hijrat for the causes of Islam. Though the news did not give us further…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Columnist & Researcher: Change is a name of concept and idea which is related to things both in concrete form and abstract in nature. In this world, things are indestructible. After a short period or at the end of life, everything in this world including the mankind is being vanished and…
Shafiqul Alam, International Climate Protection Fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin, supported by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany: Concerns over irreversible damage of anthropogenic climate change have changed the dynamics of energy use globally and forced the countries to reconsider the prevailing growth strategies and make a transition towards less carbon intensive and sustainable one. The…