THE government appears to have somewhat restored peace using coercion amidst the student protests that seek reforms in civil service job reservations, which began on July 1, and the unrest born out of the event. This is what appears to have been manifest in the expression, thought and remarks of government leaders and functionaries...
THE death of 45 people of minority communities in sectarian violence in July 2023鈥揓une 2024, as a Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council report claims, is alarming. The report, made public on July 8, says that there were 1,045 incidents of attacks and rights violations against religious minorities in a year...
鈥楢 BAD peace is better than a good war,鈥� so says a Russian proverb. 鈥業f the Turks speak of peace, prepare for war,鈥� so says a Greek proverb. So, what kind of peace is Turkey offering in the Russian-Ukrainian case?..
The 14th Social Business Day 2024, hosted by Nobel peace laureate professor Muhammad Yunus, was concluded in Manila on June 28 at the SMX Aura Convention Center in the Philippines...
The United Nations mission in DR Congo on Tuesday closed its main office in 聽conflict-riddled South Kivu province, according to an AFP journalist, as it continues to withdraw its troops from the east of the country.
China said Friday it would be 鈥榙ifficult鈥� for it to take part in a planned conference on the war in Ukraine next month if Russia did not attend...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that Bangladesh had become a role model in establishing global peace, reiterating her call to stop ongoing wars solve all problems through dialogue and channelised the money used in arms races for the welfare of mankind...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the international community to end the arms race and instead spend the money for eradication of poverty and easing the adverse impacts of climate change...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday urged US leader Joe Biden to attend a June peace summit in Switzerland, as he accused Russia鈥檚 Vladimir Putin of trying to derail the gathering...
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud will attend the UN programme in New York marking the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on May 30....
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday urged US president Joe Biden and China鈥檚 president Xi Jinping to attend a peace summit in Switzerland next month...
The world cannot look to UN peacekeepers as a way of stopping wars, whether in Gaza or other active conflict zones, the department chief said, citing the...
WHEN Peta Jones Pellach raves about what she describes as the 鈥榳onderful event鈥�, you can鈥檛 help but feel you missed out on something. On October 4, 2023, well over a thousand women 鈥� both Israeli and Palestinian 鈥� gathered for a kind of feminist peace movement happening..
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the commerce ministry for increasing market monitoring to check the price hike of essentials...
The Arab League on Thursday called for a UN peacekeeping force in the Palestinian territories and an international peace conference at a summit dominated by...
A writ petition was on Sunday filed in public interest, seeking directive to the authorities concerned to form committees at the district and upazila levels to prevent tree felling across the country indiscriminately...
President of Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies Major General ANM Muniruzzaman (Retd) has underscored the challenges posed by the seamless transition from physical to virtual existence of people that can complicate democratic practices...
Russian peacekeepers have begun withdrawing from Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan鈥檚 recapture of the disputed territory from Armenian separatists last year, the Kremlin said on Wednesday...
Renowned Northern Irish peace activist Mairead Corrigan Maguire, also recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, has nominated the UK-exiled Myanmar human rights activist and genocide scholar Maung Zarni for the prestigious prize.....
The Bangladesh Peace Council on Saturday demanded an end to Israeli attacks on Palestine and mass killings in Palestine....
