Dhaka, Aug 28 – Only around 31-minute time was spent to pass a bill on an average while 71 per cent of the total bills were passed in previous 10th parliament in between one to 30 minutes, Transparency International, Bangladesh revealed this at a report. Read More »
Dhaka, Aug 28 – Three people, including a woman, died of dengue in Dhaka, Khulna and Mymensingh while 1,157 new patients were hospitalized across the country, showing a further improvement in the situation. Read More »
Dhaka — Bangladesh women’s cricket team, led by Salma Khatun, reached Scotland on Tuesday (Aug 27) to take part in the qualifying round of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup’2020. Read More »
Dhaka – Defending champions Bangladesh will play their giant neighbor India in a do or die match to stay in the final race of the five-nation SAFF Under-15 Championship in the last league match on Thursday at 3:30 pm at the Kalyani Stadium in Nadia District of West Bengal, India. Two times champions Bangladesh has no option but the win ... Read More »
Mexico City (AP/UNB) — An attack on a bar in Mexico’s Gulf coast city of Coatzacoalcos killed 23 people and injured 13 late Tuesday. The attackers started a fire that ripped through the bar, killing eight women and 15 men. There was no immediate information on the condition of the injured. Photos of the scene showed tables and chairs jumbled ... Read More »
Bunol (AP/UNB) — More than 20,000 people are pelting each other with ripe tomatoes in the annual “Tomatina” street battle in a town in eastern Spain that has become a major tourist attraction. The party saw 145 tons of tomatoes offloaded from six trucks into crowds packing Buñol’s streets for the midday hour-long battle Wednesday. The fight leaves participants and ... Read More »
Dhaka – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the legacy of nuclear testing is nothing but destruction. Read More »
Kurigram – A sub-inspector of police reportedly committed suicide by shooting himself at his rented house in the district town on Wednesday afternoon. Read More »
New Delhi (AP/UNB) — India’s top court on Wednesday took up legal challenges to the government’s decision to revoke Indian-controlled Kashmir’s special status and asked the government to explain its stance to the court. The Supreme Court ordered the federal government to file its replies to 14 petitions and inform the court about the media restrictions imposed in Kashmir. It ... Read More »
Culture Desk Subhra Debnath -an acclaimed Tagore singer is going to perform an evening of Tagore songs on Friday at 6.30 pm at the Nouvelle Vague Auditorium, Alliance Franaise de Dhaka (AFD) in the city. Since her childhood, Subhra Debnath has been on a musical journey, starting with lessons from the distinguished artist Dilip Das and later from the likes ... Read More »
Viola Davis is set to portray Michelle Obama in a Showtime series under development about America’s first ladies, reports The Indian Express. Davis also is an executive producer on the project, which Showtime said Monday will “peel back the curtain” on the lives of presidential spouses. The first season will focus on Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Obama. Showtime said ... Read More »
It’s going to be a cruise to nowhere, but that will be just fine with die-hard “Star Wars” fans. Disney officials on Tuesday offered new details on its recently announced Star Wars-themed resort in Florida. “Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser” will be like a two-day cruise in that it drops visitors into a completely self-contained world. Except instead of traveling on ... Read More »
Countries that are part of an international agreement on trade in endangered species agreed Tuesday to limit the sale of wild elephants caught in Zimbabwe and Botswana, delighting conservationists but dismaying some of the African countries involved. Wildlife experts said a resolution approved by parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora at ... Read More »
A group of Chinese companies on Tuesday showed interest in investing in different sectors in Bangladesh. They expressed the interest at a seminar on China-Bangladesh Investment Facilities organised by multinational professional services network, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) at a hotel in the capital. William Yuan, Partner of Global China Business Network, said they are looking for investment opportunities in Bangladesh. “There’re a ... Read More »
United Nations, Aug 28 (AP/UNB) — Three important US allies on Tuesday condemned the “repeated provocative launches” of ballistic missiles by North Korea, saying they violate UN Security Council resolutions banning any such activity. Read More »
New York, Aug 28 (AP/UNB) — If Taylor Swift, Missy Elliot and a 1990s rap reunion couldn’t halt the shrinkage of MTV’s television audience for its Video Music Awards, perhaps nothing can. Read More »
The High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) released its report on “Agroecological approaches and other innovations for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition” on 3 July, 2019, in Rome, stating that “profound transformation is needed”. Read More »
JENNIFER J. SARA The global water crisis is a matter of too much, too little, and too polluted. Flooding, drought, dirty waterways—all have made the news these past 12 months. Read More »
The second gala event of the Bangladesh Heritage Crafts Foundation was successfully completed. In addition to the exhibition, cultural events and talks were held in the capital city’s Hotel Radisson on the initiative of the TS event on August 23 and 24, in which there were participated the minister’s advisers, as well as entrepreneurs and foreign ambassadors. Read More »
ঝিলপাড়া বস্তিতে স্বার্থান্বেষী মহল দুরভিসন্ধিমূলকভাবে আগুন ধরিয়েছে কি না তা খতিয়ে দেখার আহবান জানিয়ে ইসলামী আন্দোলন বাংলাদেশের আমীর মুফতী সৈয়দ মুহাম্মাদ রেজাউল করীম পীর সাহেব চরমোনাই বলেন, সরকারি জমিতে ঘর বানিয়ে অবৈধভাবে বিদ্যুৎ, পানি ও গ্যাস সংযোগ দিয়ে যারা প্রতি মাসে কোটি কোটি টাকা মাসোহারা নিয়েছেন, তাদেরকে অবশ্যই আইনের আওতায় আনতে হবে। Read More »
Dhaka, Aug 27 – Four more patients died of dengue mosquito-borne disease in Dhaka, Rangpur and Jhenaidah on Tuesday. Hospitals across the country admitted a large number of dengue patients on the day. A total of 1,299 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals in the last 24 hours across the country. Read More »
Dhaka, Aug 27 – Despite the Sundarbans being declared as an Ecologically Critical Area (ECA), the High Court on Tuesday directed Department of Environment to issue environmental clearance certificates to three LPG companies to set up their LPG bottling plants in Mongla near the mangrove forests. Read More »
Dhaka, Aug 27 – Rumeen Farhana, the BNP MP from the reserved seat for women has withdrawn her application for a plot of land at the Purbachal Residential Area in Dhaka after the request went viral on social media, prompting widespread criticism. Read More »
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