Staff Reporter :Ex-President of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Mujahidul Islam Selim has said that the CPB and the Left Alliance will not take part in any election under the party government, because the ruling Awami League ( AL) government has made the entire election system a farce.He observed that January 5, 2014 general election was mainly ‘a one-party polls’ when 153 Awami League candidates won the elections uncontested.On the other hand, December 30, 2018 general election was ‘staged at...
Press releae :Eminent Nuclear Scientist Professor Dr. Jasim Uddin Ahmed died while undergoing treatment at Bangkok Hospital in Thailand on...
Staff Reporter :Sand grabbers have made agro-land and embankment vulnerable in Gongachara upazila of Rangpur district.Locals alleged that several influential persons are plundering sands from Teesta river illegally day and night ignoring laws and damaging farmlands.Local farmers alleged that those sand looters are a threat to the flood protection embankment of the Teesta river. “Several people from Rangpur are cutting the road for lifting sands near the bridge. We have tried to prevent them but they threatened us saying they...
Staff Reporter :Country’s most of the Micro-Finance Institutions (MFIs) and their clients had to fight for coping with the mechanism adopted for them to overcome the situation during the Covid-19 pandemic.According to the findings of a study conducted by INAFI Bangladesh, a global network of development practitioners, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, around 83.9 percent respondents faced reduced income or loss in business due to the pandemic while 40pc had to face loss of work or job, 22pc were unable...
News Desk :Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov has been removed from office and transferred to “another post,” the Defense...
Syed Shemul Parvez :Violence against women and children, specially the incidents of rape, gang-rape and murder, witnessed an alarming rise...
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...
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...
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...
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...
