Kabir Humayun: This year’s ‘Shaheed Altaf Mahmud Padak’ will be conferred on eminent cultural personalities Hasan Imam and Ferdousi Mazumder for their contribution to their respective fields. The awards will be handed over by Shaheed Altaf Mahmud Foundation at a progr ...বিস্তারিত
M Humayun Kabir: Bangladesh has praised the UN investigators’ report on the Rohingya issue. “Bangladesh believes this is the most comprehensive, factual and crucial report since the attack in August last year,” State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam said, ...বিস্তারিত
Sayeed Muhammad: Art and photography installations calling for the release of Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam have gone up around the Valley, with Kathmandu set to welcome several heads of state, including Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The leaders will be ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: Yemeni Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia’s Najran region near the border between the two countries, the Houthi-controlled Masirah TV said on Wednesday. The Badr-1 missile targeted “a new military camp,” it said, without indicat ...বিস্তারিত
Kabir Humayun: The Election Commission is mulling to finalise over 40,000 polling stations across the country on September 6. As the national election inches closer, the commission has already asked its field-level officials to send lists of possible polling stations to the ...বিস্তারিত
BBC: An Australian government MP has revealed she will not contest the next election, condemning the parliament's "bullying and intimidation" of women. Julia Banks branded a party coup that ousted Malcolm Turnbull as PM last week as "the final straw" in her decision. In a ...বিস্তারিত
IB Times: After the devastating Kerala floods, there was another deluge. Official statistics now reveal that Keralites consumed liquor worth Rs 516 crore in the ten days after the floods. It was as if the floodgates opened at the hundreds of beverages outlets in the stat ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan will skip next month’s United Nations General Assembly session to focus his attention on the country’s economy, said his foreign minister. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will head the Pakistani delegation at 73rd ...বিস্তারিত
M Humayun Kabir: Rejecting a report by United Nations investigators that called for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, a Myanmar government spokesman yesterday said the international community was making "false allegations". His comments came a day after the UN rep ...বিস্তারিত
Md. Rizwanul Islam, Associate Professor, Department of Law, North South University: Lobbying or persuasion for gaining undue benefit is not only one of our national diseases; it is so ingrained in our culture that most of us not only consider lobbying as natural and fair bu ...বিস্তারিত