Desk Report: Police have made no visible progress in the investigation into the attack on US Ambassador in Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat in Mohammadpur, Dhaka even a week after the incident took place, reports Dhaka Tribune. An official vehicle of the US Embassy in Dhaka carrying the ambassador was attacked by a group of armed adult…
Desk Report: With the 11th national elections only months away, internal conflicts within the ruling Awami League, and its rival BNP – out of parliament since the last election – are intensifying in all five constituencies of Jamalpur, reports the Dhaka Tribune. In Jamalpur 1, comprising the Dewanganj and Bakshiganj upazilas, Awami League is divided…
Desk Report : The Election Commission (EC) has come under scrutiny upon its complains that they are left in the dark in decision-making, reports The Financial Express. Questions have also surfaced over the “absolute authority” entrusted to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda. The commissioners have alleged that CEC Huda and EC Secretary Helal…
Sayeed Muhammad British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has apologised for her comments to a Channel 4 News producer about having a difficult childbirth, reports The Guardian. Following a heated altercation with the channel’s reporter Alex Thomson, Siddiq told his producer, Daisy Ayliffe, who is pregnant: “Thanks Daisy for coming. Hope you have a great birth…
Reported by: Arifur Rahman Tuhin Written by: Eshan Maitra Natural calamities and disasters have hurt the farmers & the agricultural sector the most. A possibility for food-scarcity & economical unbalance of this market had emerged. Though, governments are doing their best and took great importing initiations to sort out the, food-supply vs demand issue….
Contact Music: The reality TV star was married to her second husband for just 72 days before they filed for divorce. Kim Kardashian’s life has been open for scrutiny for many years and that includes her romantic highs but also her romantic lows. One particular low came in the form of her 72 day marriage…
Dr. Syed Anwar Hussain, Supernumerary Professor of History, DU : I played football in my childhood, which is why I always have had a fascination towards the sport. Football is an art, but it is a lost art. Nowadays, football is no longer a sport; it is now a mad rush! The quality of the sport…
AP, Athens The Greek government said Monday it will set up loudspeakers at the country’s border with Macedonia to try and persuade thousands of refugees and migrants to ignore false rumors that the Balkan route to central Europe will reopen. More than 15,000 people — nearly a third of the total stranded in Greece —…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A bipartisan group of US senators on Wednesday called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to designate the Myanmar military’s campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority a genocide, reports Reuters. More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state for neighboring Bangladesh since August last year, when attacks on security posts…
Kabir Humayun: Janmas-htami was observed across the country yesterday with due religious fervour. Lord Vishnu incarnated in the universe as Lord Krishna in the prison of Raja Kangsa on this day, the eighth of “Shukla Pakkha” (bright fortnight) in the month of Bengali calendar Bhadra in Dwapara Yuga in order to protect “Dharma” from the…