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Rohingya villages still burning: AI

Rohingya villages still burning: AI
Contrary to the claim by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi that military operations were stopped on September 5, the Amnesty International has alleged that new fires are still torching villages in Rakhine State. “Amnesty International has assessed three new videos taken inside Rakhine State as recently as Friday afternoon showing large plumes of smoke rising from Rohingya villages, one of which was already deserted, as well as satellite imagery with smoke visible over burnt-out structures,” said a press release posted on the website of the London-based global rights body on Friday titled ‘Myanmar: Video and satellite evidence shows new fires still torching Rohingya villages’. Local sources in northern Rakhine State claim…

Army joins aid operation for Rohingyas

Army joins aid operation for Rohingyas

To bring discipline in aid operation for Rohingyas those took shelter recently fleeing the atrocities in Myanmar, members of Bangladesh Army yesterday joined the activities, setting up control room at Ukhiya Degree College, reports BSS. "We have started to work to bring the aid collection and distribution…
Call to patronise skilled-based 
innovation

Call to patronise skilled-based innovation

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday urged the industrialists and business personnel to patronize skill-based innovations of the students of technical education for the overall development of the country, reports BSS. “We have attached a priority to technical education aiming to transform…
PM’s UN speech

PM’s UN speech

The five pertinent points that the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made at the UN Genreal Assembly on Rohingya Friday deserves utmost attention of the UN, its Security Council members and more crucially, Myanmar itself, for solving the problem that Myanmar has created for Rohingya. Firstly,…
Between taazia and puja

Between taazia and puja

Durga puja has its own intricacies: on the one hand it brings festivities, on the other complications. This time around it is about pitching one community against the other, alleged to be scripted by none other than politicians and fundamentalists in India.  In the eye of the storm is West Bengal…
OMS rice programme begins

OMS rice programme begins

GAIBANDHA: Rice under government’s Open Market Sale (OMS) programme is being sold to the poor here through five outlets from September 18 creating a positive impact on the local market, reports BSS. Sources concerned said the OMS programme is aimed at helping the poor through arresting the price…
Wanderlust boosts domestic tourism

Wanderlust boosts domestic tourism

The domestic tourism market is showing signs of a surge with about 7 million tourists visiting various destinations in the country each every year. Beaches and hills remain the two foremost attractions. Cox’s Bazar, the world’s longest sea beach and a place of unparalleled natural beauty…
Iran tests ballistic missile, defying 
US warnings

Iran tests ballistic missile, defying US warnings

TEHRAN: Iran said on Saturday that it had successfully tested a new medium-range missile in defiance of warnings from Washington that such activities were grounds for abandoning their landmark nuclear deal, reports AFP. State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which…
SM Solaiman Pronodona 2017 goes to Protik Theatre

SM Solaiman Pronodona 2017 goes to Protik Theatre

Protik Theatre, a troupe based in Deundi Tea Garden of Habiganj, has been honoured with this year’s SM Solaiman Pronodona. To remember noted theatre personality SM Solaiman on the 16th death anniversary, Theatre Art Unit arranged a day-long programme titled ‘SM Solaiman Pronodona O Smarok…
Khulna take command over Barisal

Khulna take command over Barisal

Barisal Division have a deficit of 273 runs against Khulna Division at the end of the second day of the second round encounter in the Tier-1 of the Walton National Cricket League (NCL) at the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium (SANS) in Khulna yesterday. Barisal managed to score 171 for six when the stumps were…
Palm seeds plant begins in Bagerhat

Palm seeds plant begins in Bagerhat

Bagerhat: Hundreds of people die every year from lightning strikes in Bangladesh. Experts blame deforestation and the loss of taller trees like palms as those used to act as lightning conductors, reports UNB. In 2016, the country declared lightning as a natural disaster when the official toll topped…
Crisis looms as rivers dying out

Crisis looms as rivers dying out

The Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) estimate that some 1,300 small and large rivers once crisscrossed the country, but many of them have died out, thanks to the unplanned construction of embankments and culverts, encroachments, absence…
Regional implications of the Kurdish independence vote

Regional implications of the Kurdish independence vote

A historic independence vote later this month in Iraqi Kurdistan could accelerate the Kurdish path towards sovereignty and finally gift Iraq's Kurds with a state of their own after a century's worth of conflict, mass atrocities and genocide. While the referendum could generate the momentum for…
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