Day: March 23, 2024
Sylhet Bureau : The march of death on the Sylhet-Jaintapur-Tamabil highway does not seem to stop. A total of 30 people lost their lives on this road in 14 months, including 16 people in 2023 and 14 people till March 18 this year. Of these, 20 people have died in the last five months. Locals are angry about the death of six people, including women and children, of Patra community on this highway last Monday. They were going to a...
Sr. Staff Reporter, kishoreganj : Bangladesh Mohila Parishad of Kishoreganj district unit arranged a meeting and human chain at Gurudhayal Govt. College Shaheed minar square on Wednesday afternoon to protest the incitement of suicide of a student of Jagannath University’s law department. Mohila Parishad district president advocate Maya Bhowmick presided over the protest rally. It was addressed among others by district general secretary Atia Hossain, Mohila Awami League district secretary Bilkis Begum, Jahanara Islam, Advocate Pratibha Sheel and Legal Aid...
Chattogram Bureau : A court in Chattogram sent Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) councilor Noor Mostafa Tinu to jail in the case of beating up a young man named Mehedi Hasan Rakib of Panchlaish police station and threatening to kill him in the ward office. Chittagong Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sarkar Hasan Shahriar’s court gave this order on Tuesday (March 19). Noor Mostafa Tinu, Councilor of Chakbazar Ward No. 16 of CCC. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court General Record Office (GRO) Branch...
City Desk : Enforcement of policies is the key to combat water pollution for ensuring safe drinking water in Bangladesh, an official of the United States (US) said here today on the eve of the World Water Day. “There can be gaps between policies and enforcement, but the question is how big the gap is as it will determine the quality of the water,” he said at a debriefing session in the capital, reports BSS. The official said that policies...
Al Jazeera : The European Commission is planning to impose tariffs on imports of grain from Russia and Belarus in...
Al Jazeera : Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has promoted his son as head of the army, raising concerns that he...
AFP : Joe Biden may be struggling against Donald Trump in the polls ahead of November’s US presidential election but...
BBC Online : A million people are without power across Ukraine after Russian missiles targeted energy infrastructure. There is no...