Reuters: Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won re-election with 67 percent of the vote in a run-off against opposition rival Soumaila Cisse, the Ministry of Territorial Administration said on Thursday. The victory hands Keita a second five-year term in the mostly desert West African country where militant violence and claims of fraud by the opposition…
MEMO: Prominent Islamic Scholar Sheikh Suleiman Dweesh has died under torture in a Saudi Arabian jail, AlKhaleejonline.com reported on Tuesday. According to a twitter account which documents and reports news of political detainees in the Kingdom, the Sheikh was arrested on 22 April, 2016. The fact that the full details of the treatment to which…
UNB: Mangrove forest, which is known as ‘Green Wall’ that protected the people of the coastal district from the devastation of cyclone Sidr, is shrinking fast, thanks to unmindful felling of trees and lack of effective conservation efforts. When the cyclone Sidr hit the district in 2017, some 11.50 kilometers of embankment out of the…
UNB: Bangladesh Embassy in Beijing on Thursday held a reach-out event and briefed Chinese students about Bangladesh and its relations with China in line with Embassy’s Liaojie Mengjiala (Explore Bangladesh) programme. Around 60 students from different provinces of China participated in the event along with their teachers. Terming Bangladesh a land of beauty, Bangladesh Ambassador…
UNB: The High Court on Thursday ordered the authorities concerned to cancel the written recruitment test of Janata Bank in the wake of allegations of question paper leak.The HC asked the authorities concerned to hold the examination afresh as soon as possible which was taken for the post of executive officer on April 21, 2017,…
WION: Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh are expected to tie the knot by end of this year. They haven’t confirmed it yet but media reports suggest that the two are pretty serious about committing to their relationship and making it official after all these years. We told you of their wedding plans, that is said…
We have failed to accurately represent Bangabandhu’s philosophy and vision to our students. For a long time, we have been giving them the wrong education. We have mistakenly presented a distorted history of our Liberation to them. Quite a few generations have grown up with this distorted perspective. We are gradually displacing ourselves from this…
Desk Report: Channel i will air six Impress Telefilm productions this Eid-ul-Adha. The films will air from Eid day till the sixth day of the holiday, at 10:15pm every night. Reports Dhaka Tribune On Eid day, “Ankhi O Tar Bondhura,” directed by Morshedul Islam will air. The children’s film is based on a novel of…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said it is undoubted that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was also involved in the conspiracy of August-15 carnage. “Zia’s wife (Khaleda) brought self-confessed killer of the Father of the Nation (Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) to Parliament by rigging votes. What does it mean? It was not only Zia…
Russia Today: Mounting US pressure on Turkey is hardly a good diplomatic strategy for Washington and its allies, says veteran investor Marc Faber. Ankara has other countries to make alliances with. “[US President Donald] Trump doesn’t pursue foreign diplomacy. He is just like an elephant in a porcelain shop. He picks on this, picks on…