BSS :Three people, including a house tutor, were arrested in connection with Thursday’s murder of Tasnia Hossain Adita, a class VIII student of Noakhali Government Girls High School in the district.The district superintendent of police Md Shahidul Islam said this while addressing a press conference at his office in the district town on Friday.The arrested ones are house tutor Abdur Rahim Rony, 20, son of Khalil Miah, resident of Luxminarayanpur area in Noakhali Pourasava area and his acquaintances Sayeed, 20,...
Day: September 24, 2022
AP :Iranian counterprotesters gathered across the country on Friday in a show of support for authorities after nearly a week...
Staff Reporter :In the kitchen market there is not a single vegetable selling below Tk 60 except Papaya , potato and green Banana despite plenty supply of vegetables in the market. As a result, the middle and lower income groups are struggling to maintain their budgets and blaming the greed of the traders.After visiting few kitchen markets at Karwan Bazar, Palashi, Hatirjill, Rampura, Kaptan Bazar, Mirpur, Banosri and Baganbari of South Goran, it was seen that the egg traders are...
UNB :Rahima Begum, 52, of Khulna, who had been missing since August 27, was found dead in Mymensingh, her daughter has claimed.“I have just found my mother’s body,” this is what MoriomMannan, daughter of Rahima, wrote in a Facebook post around 11:30pm on Thursday.However, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), Khulna’s Daulatpur police station and Mymensingh police couldn’t confirm the matter.The PBI is investigating the case filed over the woman’s disappearance.Khulna Superintendent of Police Syed Mushfiqur Rahman of the agency...
News Desk :Faidpur’s Padma and Madhumati rivers are swallowing farmlands and houses, leaving hundreds of villagers in panic.The erosion of the river banks has been going on in Alfadanga Upazila over the last 15 days, putting the district’s largest housing project, named Swapnanagar at risk, reports bdnews24.com.The homeless people in the region had received houses under the government’s Ashrayan project. But they are now afraid of losing their houses again to the mighty Madhumati River, according to villagers. “River erosion is...
News Desk :A Bangladeshi teenage boy was killed by the tortures of Indian Security Force (BSF) along a border of Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district after being picked up to their camp.The victim was identified as Abdur Rahim Masud, 18, son of Bablu Rahman, a resident of Kamarpara village in the upazila.Locals said Masud along with three others were working at an agricultural land adjacent to the barbed wire fence of the border. At that time the BSF personnel took...
Staff Reporter :The United States on Friday announced more than $170 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Rohingya inside and outside Myanmar, as well as for host communities in Bangladesh. With this new funding, US total assistance in response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis has reached nearly $1.9 billion since August 2017, when over 740,000 Rohingya were forced to flee to safety in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.This additional humanitarian assistance includes more than $93 million through the State Department and more...
News Desk :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has placed five proposals at the United Nations to support the Rohingya politically, financially and legally for their sustainable repatriation to Myanmar from Bangladesh.Speaking at a side event on the Rohingya crisis at the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Hasina pointed out previous attempts to send back the Rohingya, even with China-brokered talks, failed, reports bdnews24.com.Now the adverse impact of the ongoing internal conflicts in Myanmar has kept “us deeply concerned, as this might...
Staff Reporter :Country’s left leaning parties have demanded the cancellation of the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the upcoming parliamentary polls next year. They said that the overwhelming population of the country believed that EVMs would be used as a tool for rigging votes in the national election. Their demands sprang in a meeting in the central office of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) in the capital on Friday. They demanded the cancellation of the EVM project of...
Staff Reporter :The amendment of the Bangladesh Labour Rules, 2015 will not ensure the welfare of the workers properly as some of the amended rules are in conflict with the existing labour law and it will create future complications in the foreseeable future, experts said.Lauding some of the amended provisions, they said though there are some positive aspects in the amendment, several provisions are still unclear and contradictory.The observation came during a stakeholders’ meeting on the amendment of Bangladesh Labor...
AFP :At least 77 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria’s coast, Syria’s health minister said Friday, in one of the deadliest such shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.Lebanon, which since 2019 has been mired in a financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, has become a launchpad for illegal migration, with its own citizens joining Syrian and Palestinian refugees clamouring to leave their homeland.Around 150 people, mostly...