Australia passes same-sex marriage bill, Victoria legalize voluntary assisted dying
Sabah Mannan The bill to legalize same-sex marriage has passed the Australian Senate on Wednesday. The bill is expected to pass easily next week by the House of Representatives, fulfilling the Turnbull government’s promise to expedite a marriage equality bill in the event of a yes vote and constitutionalize the historic social reform before Christmas.On…
OIC parliamentary body seeks sustainable return of Rohingyas
UNB: A 19-member delegation of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) on Wednesday called for the sustainable return of Rohingyas as the delegation completed a three-day visit to Bangladesh. The delegation member visited Rohingya camps on Wednesday to observe firsthand the situation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar sheltered in Cox’s…
Farmers’ sweat, landowners’ fruit
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Mazid , Former Chairman, NBR : Farmers are not given their fair price for the labor and production of agricultural goods. Through sweat and tears, a farmer harvests crops from the land. The final result is yielded from crops. It can be from different kinds of crops like rice, jute, potato, wheat, vegetables etc….
The sainthood of Mother Teresa and tahe fake contradictions
Md. Taqi Yasir Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa first implemented the conception of the Christian Catholic and the Holy Cross Convention through her works of peaceful missions. She had been the first pioneer to the bequest of charity and worked throughout her life for the welfare activities of the people all around the…
Rebels attack kills 6 in northern Afghan city
AP, Kabul An Afghan official says at least six police officers have been killed in a Taliban ambush on their convoy in northern Balkh province. Abdul Manon Raoufi, operational commander for police in the region, said on Monday that insurgents attacked the convoy Sunday night in the Dawlat Abad district. The police were on their…
Ershad expected to return home Dec 22
DOT Desk Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad, who is in Singapore for treatment, is expected to return to Dhaka December 22. Ershad told his special assistant ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader on phone Wednesday morning that he was in good health and eager to return to Dhaka to take part in election campaigns, reports the New…
How Imran Khan won the Pakistani elections
Amulya Ganguli/Daily Sabah, Turkey ower and politics in Pakistan have always been an intricate affair crisscrossing through the political sphere of parliament and making their way right across the institutional sphere dominated by the country’s strong military and a coming of age judiciary. Where the political history of Pakistan has recorded coup d’état’s derailing the…
New DNA technique helps identify more victims of 9/11 attacks
The Guardian: New DNA analysis techniques are gradually helping experts identify more victims of the attacks on the World Trade center on 11 September 2001, scientists in the office of New York City’s chief medical examiner said on Thursday. Although the death toll after two hijacked airliners crashed into the twin towers was 2,605, the…
Shuvapur Bridge destruction saved Ctg. from genocide in 71 : Mosharraf
BSS, Chittagong Sub-commander of Sector-1 during the War of Liberation in 1971 and now Minister for Public Works & Housing Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, said he made the Shuvapur Bridge inoperative ahead of the war at the inspiration of Bangabandhu. “Few days before the beginning of the Liberation War, I met Bangabandhu and disclosed my plan…