Arab News The UN Security Council called a vote for Friday on a resolution that would authorize the use of UN monitors to observe the implementation of a cease-fire in Yemen’s important port of Hodeidah and the withdrawal of rival forces from that area. Passage could offer a potential breakthrough in the four-year civil war…
UNB Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said they will introduce a subway train service in the capital to end the nagging traffic congestion if Awami League returns to power through the upcoming general election. She made the pledge while addressing an election campaign rally at the Youth Club ground in Gulshan-2. Dhaka North City unit…
UNB A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her house at Lebugati village in Manirampur upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Puja Das, 14, a class IX student of Kalarhat High School and daughter of Pradeep Das of the village. Quoting family members, police said Puja’s parents scolded…
DOT Desk Manpower exports witnessed a record rise over the last ten years as more than 6.5 million workers went abroad with jobs and the country received $133.5 billion remittance since 2009, reports the Financial Express BD. “We’ve sent over 6.5 million workers abroad with jobs and received around $133.5 billion remittances till November, 2018…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The arrival of a large number of international poll observers to monitor the 11th parliamentary elections of Bangladesh is yet to be confirmed due to the home and foreign ministries’ apathy in giving them the required approval, diplomatic sources said, reports Prothom Alo. The local observers were, on the other hand,…
OT Desk Customers of South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce Bank Limited (SBAC Bank) will get special discount of all services of City Hospital Limited (City Hospital) in the area of Lalmatia of the Dhaka City, reports the Daily Observer. In this connection, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has recently been signed between SBAC Bank and…
BSS Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam said the Election Commission (EC) has attached top priority of ensuring safe and secured atmosphere for women so that they can cast their votes smoothly in the upcoming 11th parliamentary elections. “Half of the voters are female. EC is committed to give them the scope of exercising their right of…
Reuters Islamic State launched an attack on Friday on positions held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in southeastern Syria and the U.S.-led coalition mounted air strikes in the area, an SDF official said. Islamic State used car bombs and dozens of militants in the attack near Abu Khaser village in the Hajin area…
BSS Bangladesh is advancing successfully toward attaining sustainable development on its way to become a Middle-income nation by 2021 and developed country by 2041. Officials and educationists made these observations at a discussion organised by the District Information Office on preventing social curses and developments at Betgara Bilateral High School in Mithapukur upazila on Wednesday…
Arafat Hasan of DOT A spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani has attested that the withdrawal of half of the 14,000 US troops serving in Afghanistan will have ‘little impact’ on the fighting capacity of the Afghan National Security Forces. Haroon Chakansuri responded Friday to reports the Pentagon is developing plans to withdraw 7,000 American soldiers…