Al Jazeera : Iran and Sweden have completed an Omani-brokered prisoner swap that involves the release of a former Iranian official in exchange for a European Union diplomat and another Swedish-Iranian citizen. The state-run Oman News Agency confirmed on Saturday that prisoners were transferred from Tehran and Stockholm to Muscat, before being returned to their countries. Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian judiciary’s foreign relations chief, said on X that Hamid Nouri, who had been sentenced in Sweden to life in prison...
Day: June 16, 2024
Agency : New Zealand fast-bowler Trent Boult announced that the next game against Papua New Guinea will be his last...
AFP, London : Catherine, Princess of Wales, on Saturday tentatively returned to UK public life for the first time since...
Staff Reporter : The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced the formation of the Chairperson’s Foreign Affairs Advisory Committee, along with a Special Assistant body to the committee. This move aims to strengthen the party’s relations with various countries and diplomats. According to a press release signed by Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the Senior Joint-Secretary General of BNP, Tarique Rahman, the Acting Chairman of the party, will head the new committee. The committee includes BNP Standing Committee members Abdul Moyeen Khan,...
AP, Geneva : The presidents of Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Somalia will join many Western heads of state and...
AFP : Israel bombed and shelled Gaza on Saturday, witnesses and first responders said, with fallout from the war bringing a resurgence of tensions to the Lebanon border and Yemen. In the ninth month of war between Palestinian Hamas fighters and Israeli forces, the Civil Defence agency in Gaza City, in the territory’s north, reported 10 bodies recovered from Israeli strikes on three separate homes. In Rafah, in Gaza’s far south near Egypt, witnesses reported clashes between Hamas and Israeli...
Bagerhat Correspondent : A deer s caught by the members of the Tiger Team and the locals from the village Dakkhin Chalitabunia under Sharankhola Upazila (in Bagerhat district), adjacent to the Eastern Sundarbans on Wednesday (June 12) at night at 10 was released in the forest at the same night. At that time another deer that arrived at the village after crossing the river Bhola that separates human habitations from Sundarbans returned back to Sundarbans after crossing the river. It...
Moulvibazar correspondent : The use of modern technology in agriculture has increased food production manifold. Further development in this sector is possible if some more conventional methods are used to increase water supply management and food production in the agricultural sector. After the official opening of the 3-day agricultural technology fair organized by the Kulaura Upazila Agriculture Office, a discussion meeting was held on Monday, in the hall of the Agriculture Office. Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel, MP said these words...
Staff Reporter : As the auspicious occasion of Eid-ul-Azha draws near, expatriates have illuminated the economic landscape of Bangladesh with a remarkable remittance inflow of $1.45 billion through banking channels in the initial 12 days of June, as reported by Bangladesh Bank’s latest data. This figure marks a substantial increase from the $840 million received during the corresponding period last year. Bankers attribute this surge in remittances to the impending Eid-ul-Azha festivities, a time when remittance flows traditionally surge. Moreover,...
Madukhali (Faridpur) Correspondent : While working in Madhukhali of Faridpur, a daily labour laborer named Shakeel (17) fell from a building under construction, and he later died. He is from Hakruil village of Nachol police station in Chapainawabganj district. The incident took place on Wednesday (June 12) at around 8 o’clock in the morning after falling from the five-storey building of Madhukhali Upazila Parishad’s new building. Shakeel was seriously injured when he fell down while working on the building in...
UNB : With just two days to go till Eid-ul-Azha, the sales of sacrificial animals in Dhaka’s makeshift cattle markets (haats) gained momentum on Saturday. Though the sales started to increase from Friday, they gained further momentum on Saturday, said Md Saiful Islam Babu, younger brother of Md Hossain Khan, lessee of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute makeshift cattle market. He said that the way sales are increasing, there may not be any unsold cows tomorrow. Visiting Dhaka Polytechnic Institute’s makeshift cattle...
Reuters : A magistrate in Kenya who was shot by a police officer as she presided over a court session has died, the country’s chief justice, Martha Koome, announced on Saturday. Monica Kivuti, a magistrate at the Makadara Law Courts in Nairobi, was shot on Thursday after rejecting a bail request for the police officer’s wife. The assailant was in turn shot and killed by other police officers. In a post on the X social media platform, Koome said Kivuti...