BDnews24: Sheikh Hasina, who has always included representatives from the Awami League’s allied parties in her administration, has not picked any of them as her new cabinet colleagues. The Awami League won a landslide victory in the 11th national parliamentary election and is going to form the government for a third consecutive term. It is…
Sheersho Zaman The world of entrepreneurship is no longer exclusive to the young up-and-coming and the industry veterans. Recently, a large number of people over the age of 50 have started to set up their own businesses, once they have realized their own potential to make it a success. These first-time entrepreneurs over the age…
Internationally renowned photographer Dr. Shahidul Alam, Managing Director, Drik, was forcibly abducted from his house in Dhanmondi, Dhaka after 10pm on 5 Aug 2018. According to security guards of the apartment building and other eyewitness reports, there were roughly 30 to 35 men, in plain clothes, who claimed to be from the Detective Branch (DB),…
Jill Lepore/ The New Yorker In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face. The wood-panelled tailgate of the 1972 Oldsmobile station wagon dangled open like a broken jaw, making a wobbly bench on which four kids could sit, eight legs swinging. Every…
Abrar Hussain Almost all international and domestic flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines were affected yesterday as demonstrations by a section of Tabligh Jamaat men in the Dhaka airport area way to Tongi Bridge, The Daily Star reports. Indian Tabligh-Jamaat Scholar Maulana Saad Kandhalvi reached the Dhaka airport by a Thai Airways flight around 1:00pm but he…
Abrar Hussain of DOT A ceasefire agreement was finally reached yesterday with respect to the city of Hodeidah and its port, according to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres announced at a press conference concluding the peace talks on Yemen. Guterres added that the agreement between Yemen’s warring parties included the deployment of…
Russia Today: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro revised his earlier demand for US diplomats to leave the country within 72 hours, giving time for negotiations in a sign of “true diplomacy.” He warned of repercussions if no deal is reached. Maduro offered Trump a 30-day period to seek the establishment of a “US interests office” in…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has that the anti-adulteration drive will be strengthened and it will continue until the malpractice is stopped. The mayor was addressing an event organised to inaugurate an anti-adulteration drive at Bailey Road yesterday, reports UNB. He also directed all concerned to help make…
Sayeed Muhammad: City dwellers of Gazipur are all set to exercise their franchise as voting in the city election starts at 8am amid tight security, with the Election Commission (EC) completing all necessary preparations in this regard. “All necessary preparations have already been taken to hold the elections in a free, fair and peaceful manner,”…
M Humayun Kabir: BNP termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comment ‘absurd and imprudent’ involving its chairperson Khaleda Zia in the August-15 carnage conspiracy. “Our self-declared Prime Minister used to see the ghost of Zia family and BNP everywhere. Otherwise, how could you involve Khaleda Zia and Ziaur Rahman in the 1975 incident? You’re making unguarded…