Sabah Mannan With the repatriation of the Rohingyas under the arrangement signed on November 23, 2017, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Wednesday hoped for a new beginning with Myanmar. He remarked that the issue of Rohingya influx with Myanmar remained a threat in bilateral relations between the two countries and also added that India…
Masud Kamal, Senior News Editor of Banglavision The words of Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury have been whirling round in my head for the past few days. He (Dr Zafrullah, founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra) uttered the words during a recent meeting between Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury and Dr Kamal Hossain. Responding to a query of the reporters,…
AFP: More than 1,000 victims of sexual abuse in gymnastics are expected to call a new, global abuse helpline in its first year of operations, the sport’s president told AFP. Morinari Watanabe was speaking at the Asian Games after Larry Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics doctor, was handed a life sentence in January for sexually…
Sofian Khan: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said “My family is Awami League (AL), its leaders and activists.” “I lost my family members in 1975. We have called you at the special meeting as a family members of AL. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made the party of AL by his own hand for the people of…
BSS Detective branch of police rescued a businessman and arrested his three alleged abductors including a woman, from Char Adhpakhia under Muktagacha upazila of the district on Wednesday. The arrested persons are Ripon Miah, 28, his wife Fahima Khatun, 22 and their accomplice Rijon Miah, 25. Officer-in-Charge of DB police, Mymensingh, Imarat Hossain Gazi said…
Kabir Humayun: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said countymen have no reliance in the assorted leadership of Jatiya Oikyo Prokriya, the newly formed alliance. “Who is the leader of this alliance of 10, 20 parties? Is it possible to continue movement without a leader?” he asked while addressing an election campaign in…
DOT Desk: Hundreds of children have been affected by the illness, reports The Independent. A diarrhea epidemic has become widespread in the Shailkupa upazila of Jhenaidah district. At least 200 children, from different regions of the upazila, have received treatment for diarrhea, in the Shailkupa Hospital, over the last 32 days. According to hospital sources,…
AP, Brussels Brussels airport officials say flights won’t resume before Tuesday as they assess the damage caused by twin explosions in the terminal earlier this week. Authorities have wrapped up their investigation of the crime scene at the airport, and will allow engineers into the building to check its structural safety and information technology systems…
Desk report: At least 25,120 people died in road accidents across the country in the past three and a half years, reports the daily star. This record suggests 20 people were killed in Bangladesh every day. Another 62,482 people were injured in the road accidents that occured in the three and a half years, according…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Agitating garment workers blocked the Narayanganj-Adamjee-Demra road and vandalised vehicles in the protest over the death of a fellow worker in a road accident there. Traffic was halted for about one and a half hours after the workers took the street around 10 am yesterday, said Siddhirganj Police OC Shaheen Parvez,…