Ex-UN Secy Gen Kofi Annan dies aged 80

Sayeed Muhammad: Former UN secretary-general and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan has passed away at the age of 80. Originally from Ghana, the diplomat, breathed his last in the Swiss city of Geneva, where he had [more]

BTRC asks users to lodge complaint for internet speed, poor QoS

BSS: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has urged the users to file complaint if they are not provided promised internet speed and quality of service (QoS) by the providers. “As [more]

Yazidi ‘ex-sex slave’ trapped both in Iraq and in German exile

Arab News: A young Yazidi woman who fled to Germany but returned home to northern Iraq says she cannot escape her Daesh captor who held her as a sex slave for three months. Ashwaq Hajji, 19, says she ran into [more]

CHT bloodbath continues as six gunned down in Khagrachhari

Sayeed Muhammad: Just two and half months into the killing of five people in a political dispute in a single day in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Khagrachhari in the latest blow saw six people being shot [more]

Rule of law is found wanting in the country

Prof Dr Ajoy Roy, Physicist, Educationist:  The quota reformists are being targeted and becoming of victims of torture. They are also being apprehended from wherever they are found. Even the female students [more]

24,000 Rohingyas murdered in Rakhine since Aug 2017 : Study

UNB: Over 24,000 Rohingyas were murdered and 18,000 Rohingya women and girls raped during Myanmar's crackdown in Rakhine State since August last year, says a research report. The report says over 41,192 [more]

Constitution doesn’t allow retreating from electoral process: Quader

BSS: The ruling Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said there is no scope to backtrack from next general election process as per the constitution. In reply to BNP’s recent demand [more]