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Prices of onions, eggs keep rising

The prices of eggs and onion continued to rise while that of other essential commodities, including vegetables, remained excessively high on the kitchen markets in the capital Dhaka over the week ending Friday...

Biodiversity crucial for survival

INTERNATIONAL Biodiversity Day is observed on May 22 every year and the day is important in raising awareness about biodiversity and in deciding what to do about it. The day was set for December 29, 1993, but the UN General Assembly...

Monks, Muslims vote to demand rights for India’s Ladakh

Buddhist monks and Muslims in the Indian Himalayan territory of Ladakh turned out to vote on Monday, demanding statehood and that their local culture be protected in the overwhelmingly Hindu nation...

Ineligible 17-year-old votes eight times for Modi in India

Indian police on Monday detained an ineligible 17-year-old for voting eight times for prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, as rivals screamed...

Modi imitating ‘detractors of democracy’ in Bangladesh, Pakistan, says Kejriwal

India once used to give the world lessons on democracy, but under prime minister Narendra Modi it has been ‘reduced’ to ‘imitating detractors of democracy’ in...

Political activist killed in Kashmir

Suspected rebels shot dead an activist from Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s party in Kashmir, local authorities said on Sunday after the latest violent attack...

‘Hindu nation’ trumps caste in India vote

Born at the bottom of the Hindu faith’s rigid caste system, voters like Anil Sonkar will determine whether Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to power next month...

Prices of most daily essentials on the rise

The prices of almost all essential commodities witnessed a sharp rise on the kitchen markets in the capital Dhaka over the week ending Friday...

Sabur Khan joins 3rd Terme Selce at Brussels

Md Sabur Khan, founder and chairman of Daffodil International University, recently participated in the 3rd Terme Selce International Congress on...

India opposition slams PM Modi for anti-Muslim jibes

India's main opposition party on Thursday condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for anti-Muslim comments in election campaign speeches that have heightened concerns over sectarian tensions in the world's biggest democracy.  

CPB blames lack of good governance for economic failure

Politicians, academics and professionals on Wednesday at a discussion said that lack of good governance was responsible for the economic failure of the country and the increase of dollar price and abnormal increase of prices of essential commodities were secondary causes...

India’s parliament has fewer Muslims as strength of BJP grows

Modi won’t go down sans a fight

MOST neutral observers are sanguine that prime minister Narendra Modi is winning a third term. Let us put it this way, it is not a foregone conclusion that Modi is losing the election, which crossed its fourth of seven phases on Monday, despite compelling pointers...

Modi files candidacy for India election in Varanasi

Cheering crowds greeted Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday as he submitted his candidacy for a Hindu holy city’s parliamentary seat in a general election his party is strongly favoured to win. ...

Narendra Modi’s Hindutva-driven Islamophobia

NARENDRA Modi, a member of India’s Other Backward Class, defined as a socioeconomically disadvantaged caste, swept to power in 2014 by winning 336 seats together with his BJP alliance partners. Modi, who became well known for presiding over the...

India vote resumes with Kashmir poised to oppose Modi

India’s six-week election resumed on Monday including in Kashmir, where voters appeared eager to express discontent with prime minister Narendra Modi’s cancellation of their disputed territory’s semi-autonomy and the security crackdown that..

Indian elections

THE Islamophobic rhetoric being employed by Narendra Modi for this election campaign has become shrill. Pakistan has nearly always been an electoral issue in India...

Kejriwal urges Indians to resist ‘dictatorship’

A top opponent of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi urged his compatriots to resist ‘dictatorship’ on Saturday, after the country’s top court...

India vote a chance for Kashmiris to signal opposition to Modi

Prime minister Narendra Modi’s campaign speeches claim his quelling of an insurgency in Kashmir as one of his greatest achievements, but many in the disputed region see India’s election as a chance to signal their disagreement...

India’s SC releases jailed Delhi chief minister on bail

India’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered a jailed opponent of prime minister Narendra Modi to be released on bail, allowing him to campaign in an ongoing national election.....

Lok Sabha polls slipping out of Modi’s hands: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed on Thursday that the Lok Sabha election is gradually slipping out of prime minister Narendra Modi’s hands and he will now try to enact some drama to divert the attention of the country’s youngsters...

BJP deletes X post accused of targeting Muslims

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s party on Wednesday deleted a cartoon video posted on social media platform X that was criticised for targeting minority Muslims during an on-going national election...

Hun Sen asks junta for Suu Kyi talks

Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen said on Tuesday he has asked the head of Myanmar’s junta for a video meeting with jailed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi...

Answers and questions remain

The Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party is in for another round and many Indian commentators are saying that it is because he is turning ‘India’ into a nation and giving people a sense of pride and security that they did not have before...

Govt to construct modern cold storage for storing onion, other commodities 

State minister for commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu on Wednesday said that the government would construct modern cold storages for preservation of the perishable commodities including onion.....

Modi votes as India’s marathon election heats up

Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi cast his ballot on Tuesday in India’s on-going general election after giving several inflammatory campaign...

Modi and MPs from Pakistan

REVANTH Reddy, the waggish Congress chief minister of Telangana, was fielding questions from a BJP-hugging TV anchor about prime minister Narendra Modi’s prospects in the ongoing elections. ‘Do I see myself accepting that Mr Modi is coming back with..

Fake videos of Modi aides trigger political showdown in election

Manipulated videos are taking centre stage as campaigning heats up in India’s election, with fake clips involving two top aides of prime minister Narendra Modi triggering police investigations and the arrest of some workers of his rival Congress Party, reports Arab News...

Modi accused of creating fear psychosis among Hindus to stay in power

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday accused prime minister Narendra Modi of trying to create a fear psychosis among Hindus to stay in...

Daffodil Polytechnic Institute holds ‘Project Fest 2024’

Daffodil Polytechnic Institute’s diploma engineering students held ‘Project Fest 2024’ with innovative projects at the...