Khandakar Alamgir Hossain: General people are struggling to pay for their daily needs & supplies. Due to price hikes and increased service charges, for multiple times. Meantime, there is insufficient amount of job opportunities. Few ones that are available, are booked for the Awami League political members only. This government is talking about development without…
Desk Report: At least 303 people were killed extra-judicially and 24 others faced enforced disappearance by the law enforcing agencies in the first six months of the year, according to a new study. The Human Rights Support Society (HRSS), a rights body, published the half-yearly report prepared based on information received through the HRSS’ district…
Independent, UK: A Nasa package has dropped out of the sky – carrying a bizarre message for Donald Trump. The package fell down to Earth over New Jersey, attached to a parachute and making a strange hissing sound, according to police. When it was examined, authorities found that the message had a strange message for…
UNB Cristiano Ronaldo says Real Madrid could be leading the Spanish league if everyone on the team was at his level. After a 1-0 home loss to rival Atletico Madrid on Saturday virtually ended the team’s chances of winning the title, Ronaldo criticized Spanish media for blaming him for the team’s poor performances and…
Sayeed Muhammad Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the process of setting up two new air bases of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) in Barisal and Sylhet is underway, aiming at updating its strength and capability.“I believe with this (construction of the new air bases) the BAF will become bolstered further and its capability will be…
Channel News Asia : Hundreds of Hindu devotees on Sunday (Dec 23) blocked a path leading to one of the religion’s holiest temples in southern India to stop a group of women making a new attempt to reach the landmark. Women activists have been trying to enter the Sabrimala temple complex in Kerala state since…
Desk Report The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. This day is referred to in India as Gandhi Jayanti. In January 2004, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi had taken a proposal for an International Day of Non-Violence from a Hindi teacher in Paris teaching international students to…
Ashik Kabir The assail which took place at Dhaka on 1st July 2016, has twisted a snivel of ignominy all over the world. The impulsive assault in a Spanish restaurant at a Posh area which is also known as the diplomatic zone of the country was unprecedented and not at all called for. In…
AFP: Malians were called to the ballot box on Sunday for a presidential runoff likely to see Ibrahim Boubacar Keita return to office despite criticism of his handling of the country’s security crisis. The second round is a rerun of a 2013 faceoff that Keita won by a landslide over former finance minister Soumaila Cisse….
Md. Taqi Yasir Led Zeppelin founders Robert Plant and Jimmy Page must face trial in a copyright row over the song Stairway to Heaven, a US court has ruled. A Los Angeles district judge said there were enough similarities between the song and an instrumental by the band Spirit to let a jury decide. The…