UNB :Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday called on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at ITC Maurya Sheraton Hotel in New Delhi.The broad parameters of bilateral relations came up for discussion between Hasina and Jaishankar, MEA sources said.Emerging from the meeting with Hasina, Jaishankar took to Twitter saying “Delighted to call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh this evening.”In a separate post, he said “The warmth and frequency of our leadership level contacts is a testimony to...
Day: September 6, 2022
News Desk :To find the authority to cancel billions of dollars in student loans, President Biden turned to two words in a 2003 law: “national emergency.”President George W. Bush had troops in Afghanistan and Iraq when Congress passed the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003. The bill gives the Secretary of Education authority to change student financial assistance programs during a war, military operation, or “national emergency.”Nineteen years later, the Biden Administration cited that law in announcing...
It is very disconcerting to note that environmentally damaging brick kilns are being set up in the urban area. Besides, there is widespread allegation that brick kilns do not often have required environment-friendly long chimneys with the height of 120 feet to 130 feet. They are permitted to use coal for fire. But these legal imperatives are hardly followed. Huge quantities of timbers and bamboo stumps are burnt for the majority of brick kilns in the country. Previously, there are...
Unbearable megaphones, sound boxes Almost every night, teenagers rent high-volume sound boxes or megaphones, playing music at more than 120dB, and disregarding the elderly, sick, and those with other health issues. These devices are also used for political activities and during election campaigns. The loud and harsh slogans shake up the ground under our feet for hours, and put our health and the environment at risk.According to the Department of Environment (DoE), the maximum level of sound tolerable to human...
Prof Dr Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder :Plastic pollution in aquatic habitats is a significant environmental problem. It has severe influence on...
ATM Nurun Nabi :Kazi Nazrul Islam is known as the rebel poet in Bengali literature and has been recognized as...
BSS :India on Monday rolled out the red carpet to welcome Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she arrived here...
Reuters :Canadian police hunted for two suspects in a stabbing spree that killed 10 people and wounded at least 15 others mostly in a sparsely populated indigenous community early Sunday.The stabbings across 13 crime scenes were among the deadliest mass killings in modern Canadian history and certain to reverberate throughout the country, which is unaccustomed to bouts of mass violence more commonly seen in the United States.“The attacks in Saskatchewan today are horrific and heartbreaking. I’m thinking of those who...
BBC Online :Liz Truss has promised to take action to deal with surging energy costs after winning the Tory leadership...
Staff Reporter :Two inmates died in Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur on Monday morning (Sep 5).The deceased were identified as Abu Bakkar Siddique (62) from Mahishtara area of Muktagachha police station of Mymensingh and Khokon Bepari (42) from Charjanaja area of Shibpur police station of Madaripur.According to Kashimpur High Security Central Jail sources, Abu Bakkar Siddique fell ill inside the jail in the morning. Afterward he was rushed to Gazipur Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital. Later, the...
Staff Reporter :City dwellers are yet to get respite from waterlogging though the authorities have already spent hundreds cores of taka to solve the capital’s waterlogging problem. The city roads frequently get flooded with sewage-filled water even after a short spell of rainfall. After the rain stops the waters takes hours to drain. This proves that the drainage system is not functioning properly for swift water drainage in the capital. Negligence on the part of DWASA and City Corporations in...