Diplomatic Correspondent :Bangladesh is expecting to raise the Teesta water sharing issue with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in New Delhi in the next week. Foreign Ministry stated that as the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would attend the G-20 Summit and it is expected that she would raise the unresolved issue of Teesta water sharing along with other issues with Narendra Modi. “We have been discussing the issue of Teesta water sharing...
The US Embassy in Dhaka on Sunday said “nothing can justify the brutal attacks and violence” over the weekend against the thousands of young people who have been peacefully exercising their democratic rights in supporting a safer Bangladesh.The Embassy, in a Facebook post, also said they also do not condone the actions of a few who have engaged in senseless property destruction, including of buses and other vehicles.The peaceful demonstrations of the past week in favor of better vehicle and...
“I do not seek justice I want sense to prevail” not an easy statement to be made by the father whose son has become victim in the hands of assassins. Only a man of great character and understanding of the senseless situation prevailing in the country could make it.Our government has no accountability. So it is not necessary for it to be sensible and accept responsibility. But no government can go on being incapable to ensure public safety. Besides, the...
The opening of some garment factories around the country’s industrial belts on Sunday has created the outcry from hungry workers who gathered at factory gates in many places in the hope that all of them will be taken and they will be able to survive with their families. On the other hand, the factory owners said they would allow only 30 per cent workers to join the work who live in the vicinity while around 50 per cent would be...
UNB, Brahmanbaria :Two suspected robbers were killed and six policemen were injured in an alleged gunfight between bandits and police at Shahbazpur in Sarail upazila on early Sunday.The deceased were identified as Abul Bashar, 26, son of Aktar Hossain, hailing from Habiganj district, and Enta Dakat alias Wahab, 32, a resident of Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila. Police arrested Bashar and Wahab on Friday night, said officer-in-charge of Sarail Police Station Mafizul Islam. Based on their information, police along with the arrestees...
UNB, Gazipur :Four suspected robbers were injured in a reported gunfight with detectives during a robbery incident at a sweater factory at Kadda Islampur in the city early Friday.A gang of robbers, numbering 15-16, entered the factory of ‘Ocean Sweater Limited’ around 2:30 am with the help of Hasan Ali, a security gourd, and looted valuables, including cotton and yarn, from the factory, said Iqbal Hossain, sub-inspector of the Detective Branch (DB) of police.Later the robbers took the valuables into...
A total of 4,144 persons were killed and 5,225 received injuries in road accidents across the country last year, which means 11 people lost their lives daily. Nirapod Sarak Chai [NSC], a voluntary organization that works on road accident, made the disclosure at a press conference held at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity in the city’s Segunbagicha on Sunday.The key-note paper, placed by Chairman of NSC and film actor Elias Kanchon, said that the number of death in 2015 was 5,003. The...
AFP -Kabul :At the age of just 14, Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has already surmounted legal hurdles preventing 25,000...
Our Correspondent :Some political activists, said to be of local unit Awami League and Rajshahi University unit Chhatra League, on Friday forced to postpone a recruitment test of the university for not relaxing some conditions of the test.Witnesses said a group of RU unit BCL staged demonstrations on the campus demanding cancellation of the test and put the main gate of Science Bhaban of the university under lock and key.Besides, local Awami League leaders and activists allegedly locked different gates...
Editorial Desk : The assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Mr Andrei Karlov in Turkish capital Ankara on Monday by an off-duty police officer shouting ‘Allahu Akbar and don’t forget Aleppo’ showed it as the accumulated anger among the Muslims all over the world for the massacre Russia is doing together with Assad in Syria. The war in Syria is a big power competition over international influence but it is only the Syrian people and Syria paying the deadly price. It...
As thousands of desperate refugees continued their march inside Austria in their frantic bid to build a new life in Europe, a good number of Bangladeshi migrants are reportedly there among the asylum seekers.Though a private television channel here quoting a Bangladeshi journalist in Austria claimed that there are so far 500 Bangladeshis got registered in Austrian camps, the Bangladesh Embassy in Austria did not give any specific number. Usually, no country does get involved with the host country when...