Palestinians return to ruined Gaza homes
Al Jazeera : Tens of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians are making their way back to devastated areas in northern Gaza as Israeli forces stop operations as agreed under phase one of the ceasefire...
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From Gaza to Dhaka: Detention, defiance Shahidul Alam’s trip
Al Mamun Harun Ur Rashid : Shahidul Alam, a renowned Bangladeshi photographer and human rights activist, delineated an ordeal of psychological torments during his captivity in filthy Israeli detention camps full of death threats,...
CA to leave for Rome today
Staff Reporter : Chief Adviser to the Interim Government Prof Muhammad Yunus will leave Dhaka for Rome, the capital city of Italy, on Sunday to attend a flagship event of the World Food Forum...
Despite Huge Budgets: Dhaka residents still wade thru knee-deep water
Abu Jakir : Every monsoon, as the skies open over Dhaka, the streets of one of the world’s most densely populated cities turn into shallow canals. Cars stall mid-road, rickshaw pullers wade through knee-deep...
‘Our work is not over yet,’ says Shahidul Alam upon returning home
NN ONLINE: Renowned photographer and human rights activist Shahidul Alam returned home from Turkey early Saturday following his release from an Israeli prison. Shahidul was freed from Israeli custody on Friday and travelled...
‘If they can’t fix it, let’s fish it’: Hasnat’s protest on Cumilla road
UNB : In a unique form of protest, chief organiser of South Region of National Citizen Party (NCP) Hasnat Abdullah released live fish into the pothole-ridden Debidwar-Chandina regional road in Debidwar upazila of Cumilla...
Weak Monitoring: Vegetable prices quadruple from farm to market
Muhammad Ayub Ali : Vegetable prices are soaring in Dhaka’s retail markets—almost four times higher than what farmers receive in producing regions. The steep price difference, experts say, stems from multiple handovers, extortion along...
‘Gaza’s Rafah crossing to reopen Tuesday’
AFP : An EU mission at the Rafah border point between Gaza and Egypt will resume following the ceasefire, with the pedestrian crossing due to reopen on October 14, Italy said Friday. The EUBAM...
No uncertainty over election in Feb Press Secretary
Staff Reporter : Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said that there was no uncertainty over the upcoming parliamentary election scheduled to be held in early February next year. He asserted that all doubts...
Eminent academic Syed Manzoorul Islam dies
Staff Reporter : Syed Manzoorul Islam, emeritus professor of English at the University of Dhaka and a distinguished writer, passed away on Friday at the age of 74. He breathed his last at 5pm...
Extreme heat hits BD economy
Tasnuba Akhter Rifa : Severe impacts of climate change hits Bangladesh with rising temperature that is increasingly crossing tolerable limits. Such warming caused national economic loss of Tk 21,000 crore annually in agriculture, industrial...
A party trying to take bureaucracy under control: Fakhrul
Staff Reporter : BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday accused the government of trying to bring the bureaucracy under the influence of a single party as the national election approaches, and...