DU Correspondent : A group of Dhaka University (DU) students staged a demonstration demanding a complete ban on all forms of politics on campus, including student, teacher, and staff politics. They also called for the DU Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) elections to be held to elect student representatives. The students made their demands known at a protest rally held at the Anti-terrorist Raju Memorial Sculpture on Friday. Prior to the rally, they brought out a procession and marched across the...
Day: September 14, 2024
Staff Reporter : A six-member US delegation, led by Brent Neiman, Deputy Under Secretary of the US Department of the Treasury, is scheduled to visit Dhaka for a three-day trip starting on Saturday. The delegation includes Donald Lu, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the US Department of State, and Anjali Kaur, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia at USAID. They will be arriving via Delhi, not directly from Washington. According to information from the US Embassy in...
Staff Reporter : BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said there are conspiracies going on to damage...
AFP, New Delhi : A top political opponent of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was granted bail on Friday after...
AFP, Pyinmana : Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar waded or swam through chin-high waters, fleeing severe floods around remote capital...
AFP, Geneva : The WHO said Friday it had for the first time prequalified an mpox vaccine — a move expected to speed up access to the jabs to fight an epidemic raging in Africa. The announcement came on the heels of the arrival of the first MVA-BN vaccines to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of the epidemic.“This first prequalification of a vaccine against mpox is an important step in our fight against the disease, both in the...
International Desk : Retiring before the statutory age will not be allowed, as China faces an ageing and shrinking populationChina will “gradually raise” its retirement age for the first time since the 1950s, as the country confronts an ageing population and a dwindling pension budget. The top legislative body on Friday approved proposals to raise the statutory retirement age from 50 to 55 for women in blue-collar jobs, and from 55 to 58 for females in white-collar jobs.China’s current retirement...
AFP, Charlotte : Donald Trump said Thursday he would not take part in another debate with Kamala Harris, as the...
Aljazeera : There was a faint glimmer of hope in the past week for Ukraine, that after months of pleading with Washington, it may be starting to move the strategic needle in favour of allowing deep strikes inside Russia using weapons made in the United States.Until now, the US has allowed Ukraine to use its weapons for counter-battery fire at short range across the border.On the same day, his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, told reporters in London that he...
Aljazeera : President Vladimir Putin has warned that if Western nations allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons to strike inside...
Entertainment Report : On August 12, Liaquat Ali Lucky resigned from the post of Director General of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy....
Sheikh Arif Bulbon : Popular TV actress Nayma Alam Maha has started promoting a new serial. Another serial starring her...