DOT Desk: People of the city are facing drinking water crisis as the underground water level here is gradually decreasing, reports The Daily Observer. Many deep tube-wells in the city are damaged. As a result, the crisis of pure drinking water in the city has become acute. Source said, to set up a tube-well in…
The learning and creativity: ‘RD Burman’s music is eternal, universal and a life-long joy.’ Each and every song RDB composed and set to tune has a unique identity in its treatment, an unmistakable RDB stamp. A straight-from-the-heart tribute to the musical genius of RD Burman by Peeyush Sharma. More than two decades of music has…
Desk Report: The application process for admission to first year honors courses at Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia under 2018-19 academic sessions will begin on September 10, an IU official said, reports Daily Asian Age. The process will continue till October 10, IU acting registrar SM Abdul Latif said that adding that the admission tests…
BSS: Bangladesh’s role in the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping was appreciated at a conference at The Hague in the Netherlands yesterday. UN Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix made the appreciation during a two-day “Preparatory Conference on Peacekeeping” at The Hague hosted jointly by the Netherlands and Rwanda, said a press release received…
Reported by: Rafiq Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra Though, National Party Chairman Hussain Md. Ershad claims to have went for just a personal visit to Ajmer Sharif Mazar in India. But, arranging of a grand party-welcome at the Shahjalal Airport riling controversial talks. Even his Party General Secretary ABM Ruhul Amin, Political Secretary &…
Russia Today: Iconic young activist Ahed Tamimi told RT she will continue to fight for the Palestinian cause, despite the hardships she faced in an Israeli military prison. Tamimi said she would risk going to jail again for her country. The teenager, who has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance and was even called the…
Citizen: An ecstatic Zimbabwean passenger Shylot Sibanda screams with joy as he boards a bus from downtown Harare to the township of Budiriro. The fare has been slashed to a third of what he paid last week. It’s the result of government action — after nationwide demonstrations over fuel hikes earlier this month — in…
Tarannum Sattar There were complaints from about 25 Academy member of Asian background about the racist jokes in the Academy Awards. These included Director Ang Lee and Star Trek actor George Takei. The 88th Academy Awards on February 28 featured a section in which host Chris Rock introduced children of Asian descent as Academy of…
Mojtaba Barghandan/ Daily Sabah, Turkey The U.S.’s anti-Middle East grand security strategy is designed to preserve U.S. cross-border and cross-continental interests. Other non-regional countries, such as Britain and Russia, for instance, interpret it as a threat to their cross-border interests. Naturally, aggressive U.S. Middle East policies should be treated as a threat by all regional…
M Humayun Kabir: Asean Parliamen-tarians for Human Rights (APHR) yesterday welcomed the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which ruled that it could exercise jurisdiction over the alleged crime of deportation of the Rohingya population, despite Myanmar not being a party to the Rome Statute. “This is a milestone decision and a step forward…