Anadolu agency: The parliament on Thursday approved a legislation on the compulsory retirement of muftis appointed in the country’s Western Thrace cities of Komotini (Gumulcine) and Xanthi (Iskece). The bill proposed the compulsory retirement of 81-year-old Mufti of Komotini Mehmet Emin Sinikoglu and 78-year-old Cemali Meco, mufti of Xanthi, citing their advanced ages. The bill,…
Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, political analyst, founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra: Even the incumbent government is not satisfied with the Election Commission. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader told the EC to speak carefully. Recently, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) said that the commission cannot guarantee irregularity-free national elections. Such kind of comment from the CEC is…
Sofian Khan The government is prepared to construct 360 Liberation War Memorial Museums at numerous historical sites of 1971’s liberation war aiming toward imbuing the new generation with its spirit. Assistant Chief of Ministry of Liberation War Affairs Md. Mominur Rahman said, “We are going to start construction of 360 Liberation War museums across the…
TWion News: he spectacular fireworks show on Sydney’s harbour that rang in 2019 and dazzled spectators around the world was picture perfect, except for one element — it got the year wrong. More than 1.5 million people packed the harbour front of Australia’s largest city to watch the extravaganza, and noticed a signage beamed onto…
Mirror.UK: You might remember the French model Thylane Blondeau, who was named the ‘world’s most beautiful girl’ when she was just six years old. She took the fashion world by storm at a very young age, stunning with her model looks on the catwalk when she was just four years old and went on to…
Sharar Shams Shayor One of Bangladesh’s iconic bands since the past decade, Black is back with a new song and a promise of a new album to be released this year. Since the departure of Jon Kabir, the current lead singer of Indalo, Black has struggled to recruit a new front-man, leaving a trail of…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Bangladesh has rose four notches up on the latest Democracy Index, compared to the previous year, says the Economist Intelligence Unit. That falls in line with the EIU’s finding that Asia recorded the highest improvement in its score out of any region, reports BDnews Bangladesh ranks 88th with an overall score…
M Humayun Kabir: Captain Abid Sultan of US-Bangla Flight BS211 was going through tremendous personal mental stress and anxiety, and a series of erroneous decisions on his part led to the crash of the flight, according to details of the official investigation led by the Nepalese government, reports Kathmandu Post. The pilot of the US-Bangla…
Reuters: Four people were killed on Sunday in an air strike that targeted a radio station in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, residents and medical sources told Reuters. The four were employees of the radio station, called Almaraweah, they said. The strike came as a Saudi-led military coalition resumed last week an offensive…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the countrymen to re-elect the Awami League to keep up the country’s development spree and serve the people again, reports The Daily Star. “We’ve already executed many projects in the country while many mega schemes are under implementation. So, I call…