UNB : Speakers at a book launching programme on Thursday said that without a strong political agenda, implementation of economic reforms is quite impossible in Bangladesh. There are several elite groups created in the last one decade in the country. Business elite is also one of them, who is driving the business sector and at the same time participating in policymaking in favour of them while ignoring mass people’d benefits, observed the speakers. They said this at a book launching...
Day: April 20, 2024
Sr. Staff Reporter, Kishoreganj : At least two motorcyclists were killed in a bus crash in Kishoreganj “s Kamaliachar area of Kishoreganj-Bhairab highway on Thursday noon. The name of the deceased is Ashraful Islam. Son of Abdullah Al Rajib of Bajitpur upazila and other victim was not immediately available The Officer in Change (OC) of Katiadi Highway Police Station,Md.. Nazrul Islam told the New Nation that, a bus from Dhaka to Kishoreganj ran over the motorcycle and ran away. Two...
Reuters : Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran...
Senior Staff Reporter, Rangpur : Experts of a visiting team of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has lauded the premium quality rice (PQR) value chain process in northern Bangladesh. They made the admiration while visiting the Bengal Auto Rice Mills at Pulhat in Dinajpur and exchanging views with its owner, PQR farmers, local service providers (LSP) and traders on PQR production, milling and marketing. Dr. Zachary P. Stewart, Production Systems Specialist of the Center for Agriculture-Led Growth,...
In the relentless grip of Bangladesh’s unforgiving heatwave, the plight of little Madeya Momtaz, courageously battling pneumonia in the crowded confines of a hospital ward, serves as a stark reminder of the perilous toll this weather exacts on our most vulnerable. Her harrowing ordeal, coupled with the distressing surge in pneumonia and diarrhoea cases at Dhaka Shishu Hospital, compels us to confront an urgent crisis. The scorching heat does more than test our resilience; it poses grave risks to the...
UNB : UN experts on Friday expressed dismay about the situation of Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia, who had travelled there in the hope of employment after engaging in the official labour migration process. “The situation of Bangladeshi migrants who have lived in Malaysia for several months or longer is unsustainable and undignified,” the experts said in a statement issued from Geneva. The experts are Tomoya Obokata, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences; Siobhán Mullally,...
Al Jazeera : Kenya’s military chief has died in a helicopter crash in the country’s northwest, President William Ruto says....
Al Jazeera : A suicide bomber has detonated his explosive-laden vest near a van carrying Japanese autoworkers in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, police said, injuring three bystanders. The van was heading to an industrial area where the five Japanese nationals work at Pakistan Suzuki Motors, according to local police chief Arshad Awan. The Japanese nationals escaped unhurt on Friday, Aswan said, adding that the three people wounded were in stable condition in hospital. Two security guards were travelling...
Al Jazeera : Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) countries have expressed “strong concern” about the transfer of materials and weapons components from Chinese businesses to Russia for its military offensive in Ukraine. At a meeting on the Italian island of Capri, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his counterparts on Friday to increase pressure on China, which the United States accuses of supporting Russia’s war effort though its provision of critical components for weaponry. Blinken said...
BSS : A road and a park of the capital will be named after the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim...