Afghan coal mine collapse traps 32
A coal mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan trapping 32 miners, a provincial official told AFP on Sunday, adding rescuers had been working for hours to reach the men....
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Online VAT services to remain suspended for 96 hours: NBR
The National Board of Revenue on Sunday announced that all online VAT services, including Integrated VAT Administration System, will be unavailable for 96 hours due to a network migration...
BNP for action against corrupt officials
Bangladesh Nationalist Party in a series of recommendations to the public administration reform commission has sought action against party-biased and corrupt officials working in the administration in the past 16 years...
Musekiwa lifts Zimbabwe to rare T20 win over Afghanistan
Tashinga Musekiwa struck 11 runs off the final over on Wednesday to give Zimbabwe their second-ever victory against Afghanistan in a T20 international.
CPB, BSD concerned over incitement of sectarian unrest
The leaders of Communist Party of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal- BSD on Wednesday expressed concern over provocation of sectarian unrest in the country...
Macron races to choose new PM
French president Emmanuel Macron raced Wednesday to meet a self-imposed 48-hour deadline to name a new prime minister after he hosted party bosses in a bid to hammer out a consensus and avoid a protracted political crisis...
Afghan refugees minister killed by suicide blast
The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing at the ministry鈥檚 offices in the capital Kabul, government sources said, blaming the Islamic State group for the attack which has not been claimed...
Mohammad Abdul Momen new chairman of ACC
The government on Tuesday appointed senior secretary of the Public Security division of home ministry Mohammad Abdul Momen as new chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission...
Syrian PM ready to cooperate with any leadership chosen by the people
Syrian prime minister Mohammed al-Jalali said Sunday he was ready to 鈥榗ooperate鈥� with any leadership chosen by the people, after rebels said 鈥榯yrant鈥� president Bashar al-Assad had fled the country...
Begum Rokeya鈥檚 philosophical perspective
BEGUM Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, an iconic figure in South Asian feminist thought, stands as a pioneer who championed the cause of women鈥檚 emancipation in colonial Bengal. Her progressive ideals and relentless activism align closely with the principles of liberal feminism, which advocate for equality, individual rights, and access to education...
Dhaka-Delhi FS-level talks today
Dhaka is likely to raise the issue of extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the Bangladesh-India Foreign Office Consultation scheduled for today in the capital amid a tension between the two neighbours over the Hindu minority issues...
UN urges Afghan Taliban not to block women鈥檚 medical training
The UN mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday urged the Taliban government to reconsider a reported plan to ban women from attending medical training institutes, in the latest move to restrict women鈥檚 education...
BNP submits recommendations to police reform commission
BNP on Thursday submitted its recommendations to the police administration reform commission...
Tools against corruption should not be rhetorical
PASSPORT, road transport administration, law enforcement and judicial services have come up to be the top four corrupt services sectors from 2017 to 2023, as Transparency International Bangladesh surveys for 2023, 2021 and 2017, the latest three of the surveys that the corruption watchdog have published since 1997, show. In the 2021 and 2017 surveys, the most corrupt service sectors were the same and in the...
Van Nistelrooy off to winning start at Leicester
Ruud van Nistelrooy savoured his first match in charge of Leicester with a 3-1 Premier League win over West Ham, while Crystal Palace edged Ipswich 1-0 on Tuesday.
Deprived deputy secretaries from 25 cadres to be promoted
Deputy secretaries from 25 different cadres, who have been deprived of promotions, would receive their due advancements in December, said Md Obaidur Rahman, additional secretary of the recruitment, promotion, and transfer (APD) of the ministry of public administration on Tuesday...
Govt moves to fill 4,75,001 vacant posts
The ministry of public administration has directed the relevant ministries, departments, and organisations to take immediate steps to fill 4,75,001 vacant posts in government service...
Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks: Taliban
An Afghan environment official on Sunday said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban officials attended for the first time...
CPB holds countrywide national flag procession
Communist Party of Bangladesh leaders on Sunday at a rally said that the spirit of the liberation war of 1971 has not yet been implemented...
Trudeau in Florida to meet Trump as tariff threats loom
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Florida on Friday for a dinner with Donald Trump at the president-elect鈥檚 Mar-a-Lago estate, as the incoming US leader promised tariffs on Canadian imports...
Trump II and the Middle East
IT IS too early to draw an outline of the Middle East policy of the incoming Trump administration. The cabinet and other senior positions are shaping up, while Democrats are doing their best to badger Arab-Americans for their vote against the Democratic Party...
Van Nistelrooy appointed Leicester manager
Leicester named Ruud van Nistelrooy as the club's new manager on Friday, just weeks after his departure from Manchester United.
Developments in Bangladesh can鈥檛 be dismissed only as media exaggerations: India
India has expressed concern over what it called a 鈥榮urge of extremist rhetoric鈥� in Bangladesh and said the interim government must live up to its responsibility of protecting the minorities.
Seoul hit by record Nov snowfall
South Korea鈥檚 capital was blanketed Wednesday by the heaviest November snowfall since records began over a century ago, the weather agency said...
鈥楾errible revolution鈥� if reforms fail: commission chief
Public Administration Reform Commission chief Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury on Tuesday warned that a terrible revolution might happen in future if reforms at every level of administration were not ensured...
ICC warrant: accountability or polarisation
THE International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on November 21 for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, citing alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the ongoing Gaza conflict. This unprecedented move by the Hague-based court has sent...
Low-grade medical supplies shouldn鈥檛 enter hospitals
LOCAL markets having been flooded with substandard medical supplies, including surgical gloves, is gravely concerning as it poses severe risks to patients and healthcare professionals. Some quarters are alleged to be manufacturing and importing substandard and spurious surgical gloves and supplying them to hospitals and healthcare facilities...
Ex-minister Mannan gets bail in another case
A Sunamganj court on Monday granted bail to former planning minister MA Mannan in another case filed for alleged vandalism and torching of an office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party...
ICC warrant for Netanyahu not enough: Khamenei
Iran鈥檚 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a 鈥榙eath sentence鈥�...
Ireland election race tightens
Ireland鈥檚 election race is set for a tight finish as frontrunner the centre-right Fine Gael led by prime minister Simon Harris has slumped in polls before Friday鈥檚 vote...