Abrar Hussain of DOT A group of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College students took to the streets yesterday, demanding the release of teacher Hasna Hena, who they claim was unfairly sent to prison over the death of student Aritry Adhikary. The students held a demonstration in front of the school gate on Bailey Road on…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Jatiya Oikyafront postponed its schedule of announcing the final list of candidates for contesting in the upcoming general election, reports The Daily Star. “We postponed the announcement due to unavoidable circumstances,” said Latiful Bari Hamim, a staff of Oikyafront’s media wing. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday told reporters…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT BNP has announced the list of its final candidates for around 206 seats for the next parliamentary elections, with the party’s election symbol ‘Paddy Sheaf”. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary general of BNP, disclosed the list at a media briefing at the party chief’s Gulshan office yesterday evening, reports UNB. “We’re…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The Netherlands on Thursday launched an investigation into claims that government officials were involved in illegal adoptions from Brazil and other countries for three decades, reports AFP. The probe will start with Brazil and then move on to Bangladesh, Colombia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, covering the period from 1967 to 1998,…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Police and CNN have issued an all-clear message after the network’s New York offices and studios were evacuated Thursday night because of a phoned-in bomb threat, reports CNN. “The NYPD has now given us the all clear, and employees have been permitted to return to the building,”CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker…
DOT Desk Major economic activities, especially trade and investments, have slowed down in recent times as many investors are adopting a go-slow policy in their new and expansion plans ahead of the national elections, reports The Financial Express. Such a slow business progress ahead of the 11th parliamentary elections also prompted bankers to cut back on…
Arafat Hasan of DOT BNP has alleged that the Prime Minister’s Office is regularly giving various instructions to the Election Commission regularly in order to implement government agenda. Speaking at a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi also questioned the neutrality of three Election Commissioners. “Election…
UNB Though everybody knows Buddhists as peace-loving people, Iranian scholar Dr S Javad Mazloumi has said a new definition of Buddhism, seen in Myanmar, is one of many reasons why Rohingyas are suffering there and that definition needs to be corrected. “Everybody knows them as peaceful and peace-loving people. What we see in Myanmar is…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT More than 300 retired senior public servants, including former chairmen of different commissions, senior secretaries and secretaries, have expressed their solidarity with the pro-liberation forces, led by Awami League, and the government. They came up with the move as they met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganobhaban yesterday…
Reuters President Donald Trump will nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, two White House officials said on Thursday, tapping someone with no prior policy or political experience to deal with some of the world’s thorniest issues. The decision was expected to be announced on Friday morning, the officials…