Gaza conflict deaths pass 800 as Kerry pushes ceasefire
Efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and the militant Hamas movement are intensifying as more people have been killed in the 18-day conflict. US...
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Baby Maudud no more
Noted journalist and former MP N Mahfuza Khatun Baby Maudud died after battling with cancer on Friday noon. She died while undergoing treatment at the...
Algeria passenger plane wreckage found in Mali
The wreckage of a plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found in Mali,...
Visa for UK now from Delhi
The British High Commission in Dhaka is going to lose its authority to decide on visas from October as part of its government’s global move...
Commentary / Our shame is ours : Others will do business
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited England last week to attend a conference on issue of child marriage convened by British Prime Minister David Cameron. It...
Inefficiency and professional non-integrity causing more damage to the banking sector
LOOTING, fraudulence and embezzlement – all have taken hold of the country’s banking sector during the last couple of years. This has been further proven...
Spirituality and piety mark the Night of Power
LAILATUL-QADR, also known as Shab-e-Qadr, is the anniversary of two very important dates in Islam that occurred in the month of Ramzan. It is the...
Emerging neighbourhood relations in South Asia
Saleh Akram :Noticeably visible changes are occurring in today’s world. Asia is also changing and its potentials are being closely monitored by the western supremos....
Does Ukraine have a future?
Jonathan Power :When one sets out to answer the riddle about the future of Ukraine the answers that come depend to some extent on how...
Place of woman in Islam
K M Zubair :Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for...