UNB Secretary of Energy and Mineral Resources Division Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Mumin has said there will be no more new gas connections for residences using natural gas. Instead, any new gas connections for residences will be connected to the part of the grid utilizing Liquified Natural Gas, said Abu Hena. The country is slowly…
Arafat Hasan of DOT The High Court has ordered local returning officers to accept the candidacy of Golam Rabbani, the Jamaat-e-Islami leader from BNP ticket for Rangpur-5. The High Court bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Razik-Al Jalil passed the order yesterday afternoon following a writ petition filed by Rabbani. Rabbani’s lawyer Advocate…
M Humayun Kabir: All Rohingya returnees should be kept in a United Nations-supervised buffer zone before rebuilding their homes destroyed by the Myanmar army, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recommended. “A little progress is seen in repatriation of Rohingya. World leaders have only given lip service in the last one year over resolving the crisis,”…
Our Time Desk Did you know that at one point in history the women of Kerala were subject to heavy taxes known as mulakkaram or breast tax if they covered their bust. This was the norm in the 17th century coastal town of Cherthala in Kerala, the larger their breasts the heavier the tax. A…
Xasir Youssaf: The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2018 under 10 education boards will begin across the country today amid tough measures taken to check question paper leakage and other malpractices in the examinations. The authorities concerned have taken stern measures to check question paper leakage in the Higher Secondary Certificate…
NDTV: The Army is giving final touches to a long-pending project to manufacture specialised clothing, sleeping kits and key equipment for its soldiers deployed in the Siachen glacier – the world’s most dangerous battlefield. India spends around Rs 800 crore annually in import of Extreme Cold Weather Clothing System (ECWCS) and mountaineering kits for soldiers…
David I Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies Emeritus at Georgetown University/ Channel NewsAsia As the 2020 elections draws closer, there is no indication that parties in the country will change their attitudes towards the Rohingya crisis, says one observer. Myanmar’s year was framed by the horrific residues of 2017 — the flight from death…
OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) is a powerful organization, consists with 57 countries and carries much weight, which is going to have a meeting in Dhaka. The United Nation, Commonwealth and OIC are three big columns that have been fully supporting and helping us without any conditions. Countries like America, Europe, The Great Britain and…
Surjeet Singh For a laymen, migration is a movement of people from one place to another with the intensions of settling in the new region temporarily or permanently (if they are allowed). The migration can took place within the countries (internal migration) as well as between the countries (external migration). There are various international organizations…