AP, BEIJING : Chinese authorities said Saturday that 14 people had died and one remained missing after a flood at...
Day: September 18, 2022
Clashes over a far away ‘non-election’ election now make no sense when the present miseries of people are being placed...
News Desk :Firing from artillery and shelling have been going on incessantly on the Myanmar side of the border in Ghumdum area in Bandarban’s Nikhongchari, creating panic among the Bangladeshi residents.Earlier on Friday night, a Rohingya teen dubbed Md Iqbal, died as mortar shells from a hill in Myanmar fell in a Rohingya shelter center on zero line. Five more Rohingyas including a girl were also injured.Local people’s representatives and border security force personnel said the Myanmar army started to...
DU Correspondent :Seven Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and five projects were signed with India during the Prime Minister’s visit there early this month. But experts are not hopeful about outcome. The experts have raised questions regarding India-Bangladesh relationship especially about river, border, transit and energy sector as well as they demanded some measures to effective the relationship.They expressed the concern in a virtual conference organized by Sarbojonkotha, a magazine of universities teachers and social platform, titled ‘Bangladesh-India relationship : Rivers,...
Staff Reporter :The government has set target of export earnings worth $100 billion by 2026 and the entrepreneurs are working to achieve the goal.“Goods and services worth around $60 billion were exported in the last fiscal year. Efforts are underway to raise the overall exports to $80 billion in 2024 and $100 billion in 2026,” said Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi at a Meet the Press programme organised by the Overseas Correspondents of Bangladesh (OCAB) at the National Press Club in...
AFP :US President Joe Biden is warning his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin against using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the wake of serious losses in his war in Ukraine.“Don’t. Don’t. Don’t,” Biden said, in an excerpt from an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired on Friday evening.Biden was responding to an interviewer’s question about the possibility of Putin, whose army is incurring heavy losses in the Ukraine counteroffensive this month, resorting to chemical or tactical nuclear weapons.“You would change...
News Desk :Several people including BNP leader Tabith Awal were injured after activists of ruling Awami League attacked a candlelit...
News Desk :A voluntary and social organization ‘Durbar Tarunnow’ announced the inauguration of an exceptional program called “Amra Mali” (we are gardener) with the motto ‘I take care of my tree’.The central president of Durbar Tarunnow, Muhammad Abu Abid, started the journey of the project by planting hundreds of trees in Moghadiya Union of Mirsarai in Chattogram district on Thursday afternoon.Helal Akbar Chowdhury Babar,the inventor of the only corona prevention booth in Bangladesh,inaugurated the project by connecting virtually as the...
AFP :King Charles III was due Saturday to meet leaders from his new Commonwealth realms ahead of his mother’s ornate...
UNB :The government will start inoculating children aged between 5 to 11 years against Covid-19 in districts and upazilas from October 11.A total of 2,26,38,737 children across the country will be brought under the vaccination campaign, said Dr Md Anwar Hossain Howladar, Secretary of Health Services Division under the Ministry of Health.The date was announced at a national advocacy workshop on vaccinating children in the city Saturday.From October 11 children at municipality level will be vaccinated and thus children at...
DU Correspondent :Different student bodies observed the historic Education Day in befitting manners on Friday with a call to introduce a scientific and uniform education system for all in the country.Making the day, the programs started around 8am with the placing of floral wreaths at the Shikkha Odhikar Chattar monument near the Supreme Court compound.Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), Bangladesh Chhatra Union, Socialist Students’ Front, Ganatantrik Chattra Council and other organisations placed wreaths at the monument.The day was observed to commemorate...