BSS: Ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival for the Muslims, cattle markets in the city and nine upazilas of the district along with its adjacent areas are getting vibrant with numerous buyers and hundreds of sacrificial animals.
AFP Peruvian fishermen need only dive down a few meters to find the scallops considered the “golden nuggets” of the country’s seas — and cherished in European and North American kitchens. Sechura Bay, off northwest Peru’s Pacific coast near Ecuador, is the source of 80 percent of Peru’s exports of the seafood to France, Spain,…
Tim Gaynor/UNHCR UNHCR has more than 11,500 staff, most based in the field. Meet ethics officer Keiko Odashiro, who protects refugees from sexual exploitation and abuse. Name: Keiko Odashiro from Kobe, Japan Job title: Ethics officer focusing on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse. More than five years with UNHCR, working in Uganda, South Sudan…
DOT Desk Internationally acclaimed Australian photographer Patrick Brown has displayed photographs of the Rohingya influx from Myanmar to Bangladesh that began over a year ago. Their present situation at the crammed huts in his solo photography exhibition titled ‘EXODUS’ ongoing at La Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka, reports The New Age. Organised jointly by…
Rubya Tripty A research report says, as Islamist extremist narrowly apply scripture, misrepresent the interpretation but to compete this misinterpret there is a huge shortage of counter-narrative literature. According to the report, Struggle Over Scripture: Charting the Rift Between Islamist Extremism and Mainstream Islam – released by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, there…
Pakistan and South Africa’s match was very important for the group B table. Pakistan had to win to grip their position in this competition. India, South Africa and Pakistan have 2 points each in the point table. Sri Lanka didn’t get any point till now. South Africa played 50 over and scored 219…
Arafat Hasan Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s cabinet minister, Noor Ul Haq Qadri, was spotted sharing the stage with Lashkar-e-Taiba chief and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed yesterday. According to reports, Qadri, the Minister of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony in Imran Khan’s government, was seen seated at the stage where terror mastermind…
BSS Temperatures have risen across the country on an average by two degree Celsius in the past few days as a retreating winter makes room for the summer to take over soon, an official of Met Office told BSS. The winter is packing up as steady rise in temperature signals its retreat for past several…
DOT Desk: State minister for fisheries and livestock Md Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru urged farmers to avoid excessive use of pesticide in vegetable farming as well to be refrained from marketing premature vegetables, reports The New Age. The minister came up with the call while visiting the three-day National Vegetable Fair 2019 at Krishibid Institution…