UNB: Awami League has asked its aspirants for the Khulna-4 by-polls to collect the party nomination form from Friday to Sunday next. The aspirants will have to collect the application form from AL’s president Sheikh Hasina’s political office in the city’s Dhanmondi area between 11am and 5pm on the days, said a press release on…
Abrar Hussain: Bangladesh has been ranked as the fifth largest Muslim consumer food expenditure market in the world, according to an estimate revealed in the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2017-18. It claimed that Bangladeshi Muslims spent US$71.10 billion for food consumption in 2016. Indonesia is at the top of the list with Muslims…
Russia Today: Health workers in Syria’s Idlib protested the assault and attacks by Bashar al-Assad regime and its supporters on hospitals and health centers on Sunday. They gathered in front of ATME Hospital in Idlib city center near Turkey-Syria border. Over 500 doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers attended the protest. Chanting slogans, the protestors were…
Banglanews24: The first meeting of the new cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will be held on January 21. Cabinet secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam told Banglanews that the meeting is scheduled to be held at Gono Bhaban, the official residence of the Prime Minister. Some 31 new faces have been included into the 47-member…
Prof Dr M Shah Nawaz Ali, Member, Bangladesh University Grants Commission (UGC) : Democracy, justice, equity, humane state or society are our demands. Nobody never agreed to fulfil our demands so easily. Rather, we were always deprived from our legitimate demands. Every ruler in history treated people unfairly. Once we were under British subjugation and we…
DOT Desk Japan will continue to fully support Bangladesh’s development on all fronts so that it can attain the status of a middle-income country by 2021, reports The Daily Sun. Senior Deputy Minister of Japanese Foreign Ministry Kazuyuki Yamazaki said this at the 2nd Bangladesh-Japan Foreign Office Consultation held in Tokyo on Monday. Japan will…
BBC: More women candidates than ever will contest US governorships and House seats in November’s mid-term elections. After Tuesday’s primaries across four states, there are now 11 female nominees for governor and at least 173 so far for the House. The results were hailed as a continuing success story by activists for women in politics….
Arab News: Yemen’s army regained control of strategic positions along the Al-Shouraijah front in Taiz following clashes with the Houthi militia, Saudi state-news agency SPA reported. A high-ranking military source said the army launched heavy attacks on Houthi positions in Al-Shouraijah and Jabal Eshar. “The army’s liberation of the sites will contribute to securing a…
BRAC More than 40% of girls in Bangladesh drop out from secondary school, and almost 60% are married by the time they turn 18. Mitu is one of 100,000 young women in nearly 5,000 adolescent clubs across Bangladesh. These clubs provide safe spaces where young women can learn sports, life skills, social confidence and entrepreneurship….
UNB Though one year has already elapsed, the investigation agency could not yet make any headway in debunking the mystery behind the murder of blogger Avijit Roy. However, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, assigned for handling the case, claimed that they have already identified three suspects in the brutal killing. …