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Iran warns against 鈥榚thnic cleansing鈥� of Palestinians
Iran on Monday condemned US president Donald Trump鈥檚 proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, warning it would amount to 鈥榚thnic cleansing鈥�.
US foreign aid suspension hurts global development
IN 2019, I worked with a USAID-funded project called Nobo Jatra, which was implemented across 40 unions in the Khulna and Satkhira districts of Bangladesh. One of these unions was Buri Goalini, located in Shyamnagar Upazila. Like many other villages in the southwestern region of the country, Buri Goalini suffered from high salinity levels, leading to...
US aid suspension and its consequences
THE suspension of US aid can have wide-ranging impacts both on the countries directly affected and on global dynamics. The United States has been a major source of humanitarian, economic, and military assistance to numerous countries, particularly in regions like Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America...
Media reform should address sectoral male bias
WOMEN鈥橲 rights activists and media scholars consider developing a gender-sensitive reporting strategy and an effective system to monitor journalistic practices in print, broadcast and digital media as a priority agenda for media sector reforms. They have expressed their concern at a roundtable discussion on gender-sensitive reporting and said that the...
Flick demands Barca focus more after Liga slump
Barcelona coach Hansi Flick called on his team to show more concentration in La Liga on Saturday after a dismal run of domestic form.
JP wants early inclusive general elections
Jatiya Party on Wednesday demanded early general elections in an inclusive and credible manner for the country鈥檚 democratic transition...
LICENSING AND NETWORK POLICY REFORM: BTRC committee to submit proposals by March
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has formed a network and licensing re-organisation committee that plans to submit reform proposals to the interim government by March, with an aim to make the telecom sector more competitive and cooperative...
DCCI for policy reforms for post-LDC transition
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Taskeen Ahmed stressed the need for urgent reforms and modernisation of Bangladesh鈥檚 trade and investment frameworks...
Sonali Bank, AB Bank sign deal for fee collection
Sonali Bank PLC on Monday signed an agreement with AB Bank PLC to collect challan, utility bill, pension scheme instalments and others charges-fees from AB Bank Inter Banking (AB Direct) customers through Sonali Payment Gateway, said a press release...
Dhaka, Delhi need to effectively engage in easing border tension
THE clash between Bangladeshi and Indian villagers in the Shibganj border in Chapainawabganj over harvesting crops on no man鈥檚 land adds to the ongoing border tension resulted from India鈥檚 Border Security Force trying to erect fences on the zero line in violation of laws and agreements. Hundreds of villagers from both Bangladesh and India clashed...
One arrested over medical admission test question paper fraud
One person was arrested on Thursday on the charge of fraud for selling fake question papers of the medical admission test for the 2024-2025 academic year scheduled to be held today....
TRANSITION TO NEW BANGLADESH: The good, the bad and the ugly
BANGLADESH is faced with many tricky challenges in its quest for transition to a truly democratic system of governance. The student-led mass uprising of July-August 2024 forced Sheikh Hasina to flee the country after her 15-year iron-fisted rule, albeit under the fa莽ade of a democratic system of government. In 2021, when the country reached...
Tension along聽border聽continues
The government on Sunday urged India to refrain from any provocative actions amid tensions along the border over the construction of border fencing in violation the international law at...
Attack on shrine in Mymensingh:聽Police yet to identify attackers
No one was arrested so far and police were yet to identify the attackers two days after an attack on a shrine in Mymensingh city during a congregation early Thursday....
鈥楧am鈥� disregard deepens downstream discontent
WATER disputes between nations frequently emerge from managing shared hydrological resources, mainly when an upstream riparian state exerts control over the source and implements large-scale infrastructural initiatives that may disrupt downstream flow dynamics. India鈥檚 extensive hydropower projects on the River Brahmaputra and...
Climate refugees protest at Cox鈥檚 Bazar airport expansion plan
Climate refugees residing in Cox鈥檚 Bazar staged a protest on Tuesday, demanding cancellation of the eviction plan linked to the airport expansion project...
Consist Apparels earns LEED certification
Consist Apparels Limited has become the first readymade garment factory this year to receive platinum LEED certification...
The transition travesty
JOE Biden keeps departing and Donald Trump keeps arriving. The soon-to-be former president and the still-future president are like comic-tragic characters in a political zombie film...
Flick optimistic but 'not happy' over Olmo situation
Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said Friday he was unhappy about potentially losing key midfielder Dani Olmo because of the club's dire financial state, but optimistic the situation would be resolved successfully.
BRT conducts awareness campaign
The Bus Rapid Transit held an awareness campaign and issued guidelines to ensure order and traffic management in the BRT corridors on the Gazipur-Airport route Tuesday morning...
Four of family killled after auto-rickshaw, truck collide
Four people of a family were killed after a drum truck and CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided on the Mymensingh-Netrokona highway in Mymensingh鈥檚 Tarakanda upazila Thursday morning.
DNA says body parts found in India MP Anwarul鈥檚
A forensic report confirmed that dismembered body parts recovered during West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department鈥檚 investigation into the murder of former Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, belonged to...
Food Systems Transformation: Inclusive and climate-responsive solutions stressed
Speakers, including academics, at a national dialogue on Thursday emphasised the need to integrate innovative, inclusive, and climate-responsive solutions into the national agenda, collaboratively shaping the National Food Systems Pathways towards more sustainable, resilient, healthy, and equitable food systems...
Blinded to Syria
I DO not know anyone who was not shocked by the lightning speed with which Damascus fell to expensively armed jihadist militias last weekend...
聽BRT corridor opened, BR launches trains on Dhaka-Gazipur route
The government on Sunday opened the Bus Rapid Transit corridor with 10 air-conditioned buses to ply between Dhaka and Gazipur to ease the commute between the two cities that till now took hours amid extreme traffic congestion...
BRTC to launch AC bus service in BRT corridor today
The government is set to introduce the much-sought AC bus service under the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation in the Bus Rapid Transit corridor on Sunday...
No health impact from India鈥檚 visa restriction: discussion
Healthcare providers and the sector experts at a discussion on Thursday said that there were no significant negative health impacts from India鈥檚 suspension of visas after the July uprising for there were no lack of facilities in the health sector of the country...
Alleging irregularities, DSE asks CCBL to halt large procurements
The Dhaka Stock Exchange has requested a temporary suspension to large-scale procurement activities by the Central Counterparty Bangladesh Limited on allegations of irregularities, a lack of transparency and a delay in operation commencement...
Yunus for tech expansion in CHT
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has laid emphasis on the expansion of technology in the Chittagong Hill Tracts to bridge the gap in communication...