Tarannum Haider Maliha Asian Football Confederation has 47 member countries among which Bangladesh is qualified as one of the best 8 teams in the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship Qualifiers 2017. The girls who have brought such pride to the nation have faced some unwanted and offensive incidents just 48 hours after their achievement. The first…
Imran Hussain: Eid shopping has intensified at Patharghata in Barguna. Men and women of every age are engrossed in their purchases. The sale of Indian apparel alongside local ones is extraordinary. Shops large and small have been crowded by people looking to buy their favorite clothes. Women’s clothes range from Tk 2,000 to 6,000 while…
BSS BNP, in a letter, yesterday called upon the Election Commission to take effective steps for ensuring overall security so that the party and the Jatiya Oikyafront’s candidates can conduct their electioneering in a free and fair manner. BNP and Oikyafront’s candidates are being harassed and arrested and many of them are being attacked by…
Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua, Advocate, Supreme Court: Lawyers have agreed to provide legal aid for the quota reform activists. This is no big deal, nor are we heroes. We are some ordinary people who have agreed on serving our professional responsibility. According to the constitution, every single person has the right to receive legal aid. The…
Abrar Hussain: North Korea has announced that an August reunion of Korean families separated by war may not happen if South Korea doesn’t immediately return some of its citizens who arrived in the South in recent years. The 2016 arrival of a group of 12 female employees from a North Korean-run restaurant in China has…
AP, Istanbul A suicide attacker detonated a bomb on Istanbul’s main pedestrian shopping street on Saturday, killing four people, the city’s governor said. Twenty other people were injured in the attack. The attacker was among the dead. Governor Vasip Sahin said the explosion occurred outside a local government office on Istiklal Street, which is also…
Reuters: Iran has full control of the Gulf, and the U.S. Navy does not belong there, the head of the navy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, General Alireza Tangsiri, said on Monday, according to the Tasnim news agency. The remarks come at a time when Tehran has suggested that it could take military action in the…
Prof Dr AK Azad speaks to DOT : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the new cabinet to work with sincerity and honesty to fulfill the expectations of people. It is not unusual for the Prime Minister to warn her cabinet about any misdeed including corruption. Many members of the cabinet are new and the PM…
UNB Police in special drives arrested 74 people, who are accused in different cases, from eight upazilas of the district from Friday evening to Saturday morning. Of them, 19 were arrested from Sadar upazila, 24 from Kolaroa upazila while the others from Kaliganj,Ahsashuni,Patkelghata, Debhata, Shamnagar and Tala upazilas. said Azam Khan, Inspector of Special Branch…
Arab News: The ruling coalition of Congo’s outgoing President Joseph Kabila has won a large majority of national assembly seats, the electoral commission announced early Saturday, while the presidential election runner-up was poised to file a court challenge alleging fraud. The national assembly majority sharply reduces the chances of dramatic reforms under the declared presidential…