UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday expressed deep concern over India’s reported move to connectTeesta-Ganga-Manas-Sankosh covering three states, saying the country will turn into a desert if the neighbouring country implements it.In a statement, Jamaat acting ameer Maqbul Ahmad also said the Islamist party is ready to cooperate with the government to resolve the outstanding problem with India relating to sharing of water of the common rivers.Mentioning that Bangladesh and India share 54 common rivers, he said the country is...
Economic Reporter :Bangladesh is going to form a taskforce to make a strategic plan on “how to attract the companies, which are leaving from China,” to invest here.According to the Commerce Ministry sources, Japan, the US and Europe have announced they will relocate their factories from China to reduce their dependence on a single country. Japan has already allocated $2.2 billion to help its manufacturers shift production units out of China. Korean companies are also planning to move out of...
Sagar Biswas :The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Defence on Wednesday queried over the progress of government’s resettlement programme to shift around one million displaced Rohingyas to Noakhali’s Bahasanchar from Cox’s Bazar. In this regard, the Bangladesh Navy informed the parliamentary committee that they were working ‘fast’ to upgrade the infrastructure of the remote island in a bid to rehabilitate the Rohingyas as soon as possible.The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Defence in its 27th meeting held at...
AL Jazeera News :At least 92 soldiers from Chad have been killed in the deadliest-ever attack by the Boko Haram armed group on the country’s military forces, President Idriss Deby said on Tuesday.“We lost 92 of our soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers,” the president said of the attack overnight on Sunday in Boma.“It’s the first time we have lost so many men,” he added, after visiting the site of the incident in Lac province, which borders Niger and Nigeria.The attack...
Staff Reporter :Professor Md Sharfuddin Ahmed has been appointed as the vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.Born in 1956,...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said the recruitment process of 5,000 new medical technologists is underway to strengthen the medical sector.He came up with the information while inaugurating the 2,000-bed isolation unit at Bashundhara International Convention Center (ICCB) dedicated to coronavirus patients.Mentioning that the newly-inaugurated hospital dedicated to coronavirus patients is the second largest hospital for coronavirus treatment, he said that the government has been able to prepare this hospital within only 20 days.“It has 2,013 isolation beds. Among...
Sky News :A proposed meeting between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin is “certainly is not in the plans” anymore, the White House’s spokesperson has said.Jen Psaki added that tensions over the planned invasion of Ukraine would have to ease before such a meeting took place.It came at the end of a day when Mr Putin’s decision to send troops into Ukraine’s disputed regions drew condemnation across the globe.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that he had canceled...
Staff Reporter :The High Court on Monday asked the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) not to continue relocation of stray dogs from its area until further hearing of the writ petition filed to this effect.The HC bench of Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Mohammad Ali kept the writ petition “stand over” (waiting for hearing) for a month, said Barrister Saqeb Mahbub who appeared in the court for the writ petitioners. The court also asked Attorney General AM Amin Uddin...
UNB, Dhaka :BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Friday said their party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release from jail depends on goodwill of the government since the judiciary is unable to work independently.“Khaleda Zia isn’t getting bail due to the government’s political influence. Her release from jail now depends on the government’s goodwill,” he said.The BNP leader urged the government to free Khaleda as soon as possible. “We won’t have any other alternative to waging a movement if you don’t free...
Staff Reporter :The fire that burnt down over one hundred shops in the capital’s Bashundhara City Shopping Mall might have been caused by an electrical malfunction, said Ajit Kumar Bhawmik, Joint Director of Fire Service and Civil Defense (FSCD)Ajit Bhawmik, who is heading the five-member probe committee formed on the August 21 incident, said, “Although the investigation is yet to conclude, preliminary findings indicate towards short-circuit.”The FSCD official said, the absence of any ‘tray’ to carry the electrical cables exposed...
UNB, Dhaka :BNP on Monday accused the government of obstructing their party reorganisation process and preparation for waging a decisive movement by arresting their leaders and activists.“We’re recasting our party as part of our efforts to intensify the movement to restore democracy and establish people’s voting right. Our leaders and activists are being arrested in false cases so that we can’t do it,” said BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.Fakhrul came up with the remarks while talking to...