Maulana Farid Uddin Masud, Islamic scholar : Usually, the prices of commodities are higher, which is quite unaffordable for consumers. Traders can profit as much as their business demand. But unlimited profits are not something allowed in Islam. Rather the Muslims are told to keep the market prices under control. In the golden days of Islam,…
UNB, Dhaka Petrobangla is close to completing its evaluation of the bids received in the re-tender of the 2D Non-Exclusive Multi-Client Seismic Survey in the offshore area of Bangladesh. According to official sources, the state-owned hydrocarbons corporation received bids from five international seismic survey companies on January 31, the last day for bid submission under…
DOT Desk: Against the backdrop of mugging and hijacks, members of law enforcement agencies including detectives and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have launched massive hunt for criminals at different parts of the capital and its outskirts, reports The Daily Sun. As part of the move, members of RAB-2 on Saturday night have managed to nab…
Noman Ahmed, Chairman, Department of Architecture & Planning, NED University, Karachi/Dawn, Pakistan RECENTLY, the commissioner Karachi issued a notification dividing the city into three zones: downtown, uptown and old town. Prima facie, it appears to be an attempt to redefine the city’s administrative arrangements, however, it doesn’t provide any details or schedules to identify the…
Ban on fishing in Kaptai ends Desk Report: Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC) has lifted the ban on fishing in Kaptai Lake, starting from midnight yesterday. The district administration had banned fishing from May 1. A letter issued by BFDC last week instructed the district officials of BFDC and local administration to allow fishing in…
Barrister Sabrina Zarin, Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and partner at the FM Associates/ Daily Observer Having dual citizenship has become a matter of concern for many citizens of Bangladesh due to the high interest in migrating to different countries of the world from Bangladesh. People from Bangladesh are moving towards the western…
Reuters: Activists and families of eight victims of the Philippines’ “war on drugs” filed a complaint on Tuesday with the International Criminal Court (ICC), a second petition accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of murder and crimes against humanity. The 50-page complaint calls for Duterte’s indictment for what it describes as thousands of extrajudicial killings, which include…
Afrida Ahmed It has been 2 years since the jihadists killed 130 people in Paris and the only surviving suspect decided not to talk to the investigators. According to police reports, the 28 year old suspect Salah Abdeslam played an important role in planning the attack but nobody knows about his exact role yet. He…
Sun Daily: International Criminal Court prosecutors said Wednesday they would appeal against the shock acquittal of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo and urged judges to bar him from returning to his homeland. Judges cleared Gbagbo and his right-hand man Charles Ble Goude on Tuesday of charges of crimes against humanity over a wave of…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that his government will officially recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. However, he added that Australia’s embassy would not move from Tel Aviv until a ‘peace settlement’ was achieved. Nevertheless, Australia also recognized the aspirations of Palestinian people to a state with…