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Myanmar halts UN visit to Rakhine

Myanmar halts UN visit to Rakhine
The United Nations says a planned visit to Myanmar’s Rakhine state, which has seen a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims, has been cancelled by the authorities, report agencies. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council was scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss the violence in Myanmar and hear a briefing from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the Rohingya crisis. The visit of the diplomats would have been the first by UN officials to the area since violence broke out on 25 August. UN aid personnel were forced to leave Rakhine when the military began a crackdown on Rohingya militants behind attacks on security personnel. A UN spokesperson in Yangon told the BBC no reason was given for the move. The UN has been pushing to visit Rakhine to investigate…

PM’s birthday a muted affair due to Rohingya crisis

PM’s birthday a muted affair due to Rohingya crisis

The ruling Awami League (AL) and its affiliated organisations yesterday observed the 71st birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by organising various humanitarian events and hosting discussions on her life and achievements. Hasina, the eldest of the five children of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman…
Noise pollution turns acute in Dhaka

Noise pollution turns acute in Dhaka

Noise pollution, also known as sound pollution, has turned acute in the capital city as it always goes far beyond the permissible level, putting the public health at risk, says a new survey of the Department of Environment (DoE), reports UNB. The survey conducted at 70 points of the city this year reveals…
ACC’s probe to 
rice crisis

ACC’s probe to rice crisis

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has formed a three-member committee to probe allegations of illegal stockpiling of rice by hoarders. The move comes in the wake of falling rice prices discouraging traders and importers to help the market get back to its normal state. However, following repeated…
Who will build up the nation?

Who will build up the nation?

In The Republic, Plato, a great renowned Greek philosopher and teacher of Aristotle, desires to ban poets and poems from his ideal (Utopian) state with some certain conditions. According to him, poems are the mother of lies and poems are twice far away from the truth. As the same time, he mentions when…
Work with professional                       efficiency, says Shajahan

Work with professional efficiency, says Shajahan

CHITTAGONG: Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday urged the seafarers of National Maritime Institute (NMI) to work with professional efficiency so foreign shipping companies recruit more Bangladeshis in their vessels, reports BSS. The minister was addressing as chief guest the passing out parade…
    Muhith rules out WB’s GDP growth forecast

    Muhith rules out WB’s GDP growth forecast

    Economists have expressed mixed reaction over the remarkable gap in the GDP growth projections by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank (WB) and the government. In his budget speech, finance minister AMA Muhith set a target of 7.4 per cent GDP for the current fiscal year, while the WB projected…
    Shipping ban 
for storm-hit island lifted

    Shipping ban for storm-hit island lifted

    London:  President Donald Trump has waived shipping restrictions to help fuel and supplies reach storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, the White House has said, reports BBC. Mr Trump "has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico", a statement said on Twitter. Puerto Rico had pressed the…
    Khurshid Alam to receive lifetime achievement award

    Khurshid Alam to receive lifetime achievement award

    Veteran singer Khurshid Alam, a glittering star in the sky of the music, is going to receive a lifetime achievement award for his immense contribution to the country’s music arena DhakaLive has news that the lifetime achievement award will be handed over to Khurshid Alam at the 12th edition of…
    Bangladesh fail to read wickets properly

    Bangladesh fail to read wickets properly

    There is a myth—if you can’t differentiate the pitch from the outfield never opt to bowl in South African wicket.  There is no guarantee that the myth will be true always, in cricket every team at least tries to follow the tradition to keep them in safe zone at least psychologically.…
    International Right to Information              Day observed

    International Right to Information Day observed

    GAIBANDHA: International Right to Information Day was observed today in the district as elsewhere in the country with the theme ‘Powering Sustainable Development with Access to Information’, reports BSS. The district administration and Sachetan Nagarik Committee (SNC), district unit, in…
    High prices paid for low-end laptops

    High prices paid for low-end laptops

    It is alleged that a syndicate of the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) is involved in purchasing 50,000 low-end laptops at high prices instead of the high performance ones for multimedia classrooms in 20 districts. Primary and mass education ministry and DPE sources said the DPE had purchased…
    The lost jewels of bad king John

    The lost jewels of bad king John

    Under the Crosskeys Bridge in Lincolnshire, England, farmland stretches flat and green and the River Nene lies brown and shallow. When the North Sea tide rises, 6km away, it flows upriver as fast as a human runner. Around the time of the full and new moons, the water can outrun a galloping horse as…
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