Al Jazeera : Hezbollah confirms Nasrallah’s death as Israel says it hit the group’s leaders at their headquarters in south...
Day: September 29, 2024
Staff Reporter : Eighty-five Bangladeshi nationals are set to return home after serving various prison terms in Myanmar. According to a press release from the Bangladesh Embassy in Yangon, they left Sittwe port in Rakhine, Myanmar, on Saturday and are expected to arrive in Bangladesh early Sunday. The returnees are being transported aboard the Myanmar Naval Ship UMS Chin Dwin, which is also in Bangladesh to repatriate members of Myanmar’s defense forces who crossed into Bangladesh due to conflict in...
Business Desk : Internet users in Bangladesh may experience slow speed or disruption for four hours due to maintenance work on the submarine cable system at Patuakhali’s Kuakata station.Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC (SCPLC) issued a notice in this regard, apologizing for the inconvenience.According to a statement from the company’s General Manager of Operations and Maintenance, Saidur Rahman, the SEA-ME-WE 5 (SMW5) consortium will install a lighting filter in the country’s second submarine cable system at Kuakata from 2am to 6am...
AFP : Donald Trump on Friday accused Google of showing only “bad stories” about him and vowed to have the...
AFP : Tens of thousands of US dockworkers plan to strike next week if there is no breakthrough on contract talks, just a month before November’s closely contested presidential election.A walkout affecting 14 large ports on the East and Gulf Coast could start at midnight on Tuesday October 1, posing a potentially significant headwind to the US economy.Negotiations on a new contract began in May but have stalled in recent weeks.The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), which represents shipping companies...
Business Report : South Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Park Young-sik on Saturday reiterated his country’s commitment to continuing its long-standing...
Dr Mohammad Didare Alam Muhsin : One of the main demands of the recent anti-discrimination student movement was to ban...
The country is facing a severe growing health crisis as dengue cases continue to rise alarmingly. An English newspaper on Saturday reported that the situation is deteriorating with over 27,000 hospitalisations and 143 deaths already recorded this year, especially as the country experiences persistent rains that provide ideal breeding conditions for Aedes mosquitoes, the primary carriers of the dengue virus. This ongoing health catastrophe demands immediate action and heightened awareness from authorities and citizens. Experts have repeatedly warned that the...
Agency : A boat carrying migrants capsized off Spain’s Canary islands overnight, killing at least nine people and leaving 48 missing, the national maritime rescue service said on Saturday.Eighty-four people were on board and 27 were rescued after rescuers responded to a distress call received shortly after midnight from off El Hierro, one of the islands in the archipelago, a statement said.This follows the death of 39 migrants in early September when their boat sank off Senegal while attempting a...
AFP : Kamala Harris pledged on Friday she would tighten the border and fix America’s broken immigration system on her...
BBC : At least 45 people have died and millions have been left without power as Hurricane Helene roared through...