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A soothing retreat

A soothing retreat
Hours after unveiling plans to hold rally in the capital’s Suhrawardy Uddyan on January 5, both the ruling Awami League and its arch rival BNP have backed out and decided to hold rallies in front of their respective party offices. The decisions, taken after police’s denial of permission to both the parties, came as a relief to common people who apprehended heating up of politics centring the observance of the January 5 programmes. On this day in 2014, through holding a general election, the present AL government assumed power for the second consecutive terms. But the then main opposition BNP and its allies, who boycotted the elections, termed the present government illegal. The ruling Awami League will observe the day as the Victory…

Ctg Port sets cargo handling record

Ctg Port sets cargo handling record

The Chittoagong Port authority (CPA) has set a new record of handling two million containers before one year against the target, after 41 years. “The consultant to CPA had set a target that Chittagong Port should able to handle 19.56 lakh twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) container and 42.47 lakh…
Demo against increased tuition fees in capital

Demo against increased tuition fees in capital

Students and guardians of Wiles Little Flower School and College (WLFSC) yesterday staged a demonstration in front of the school at Kakrail in the capital against the increase of tuition fees of the students, disrupting vehicular movement for about one hour, reports BSS. Witnesses said several hundred…
Modi’s peace initiative on Nawaz’s birthday

Modi�s peace initiative on Nawaz�s birthday

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise stopover in Pakistan on December 25, 2015 to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, the first time an Indian premier has visited the rival nation in over a decade. The visit, requested by Modi just hours earlier before he flew back home from Afghanistan,…
Russia and Ukraine finally break up

Russia and Ukraine finally break up

Russia and Ukraine have spent most of their post-Soviet history as Siamese twins, but for the last two years they've been undergoing political and economic separation surgery. It will probably be more or less complete in 2016, and though both twins are in for a grim period, the weaker one, Ukraine,…

8 injured in rival attack

Mymensingh: At least eight people, including a woman, were injured when criminals attacked their houses and hurled cocktails at Banshbari Colony in the town on Saturday night. The gang also seriously damaged a house and looted cash and gold ornaments from there, sources said. They are Papiya Sultana,…
    Bangladesh bears brunt of high migration costs

    Bangladesh bears brunt of high migration costs

    Razul Karim, a worker hailing from Jessore, aspires to migrate to Saudi Arabia.  “I had to return from Libya empty-handed a few years back due to prolonged political uncertainty in that country,” he said. “I collected the amount of money necessary to go to Libya by selling and…
    Beijing rejects Vietnam protest

    Beijing rejects Vietnam protest

    AFP, Beijing:  has rejected a protest from Vietnam after a Chinese plane landed on a contested reef in the South China Sea, saying the operation took place within Chinese territory. A Chinese "test flight" landed on Fiery Cross reef, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in an…
    Art show ‘Manifestation of the Human’ begins at AFD

    Art show �Manifestation of the Human� begins at AFD

    A solo drawing and painting exhibition titled ‘Manifestation of the Human’ by artist Md. Mainuddin has begun in its La Galerie & Galerie Zoom, Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) in the city’s Dhanmondi area. Eminent artists Professor Rafiqun Nabi, Abul Barq Alvi, Faculty…
    Mahmudullah looks to play fearless cricket

    Mahmudullah looks to play fearless cricket

    The expectation to continue the upward spiral is now understandably high on Bangladesh players following their amazing performance in the preceding year. From a team capable of producing occasional flashes of brilliance, they have evolved into consistent performers but that transformation happened in…
    Gaibandha Govt College goes digital

    Gaibandha Govt College goes digital

    Gaibandha Government College (GGC), the biggest academic institution in the district, has introduced digital system to collect all sorts of fees from the students, reports BSS. Official sources said the objective of introduction of digital system is to help the government build digital Bangladesh and…
    Saudis to face ‘divine revenge’, says Iran

    Saudis to face �divine revenge�, says Iran

    Saudi Arabia will face "divine revenge" for its execution of a prominent Shia cleric, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned, reports BBC. Ayatollah Khamenei described Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr as a "martyr" who acted peacefully. Protesters stormed the Saudi embassy…
    TAPI, Afghanistan’s peace pipe

    TAPI, Afghanistan�s peace pipe

    When, on December 10th, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani returned to Kabul from Islamabad, he was greeted by a Taliban attack that killed more than fifty people at the Kandahar airbase and the resignation of his intelligence chief, Rahmatullah Nabil, who cited a “lack of agreement on some policy…
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