Opinion
The Breast Cancer Awareness Month, marked in countries across the world every October, helps to increase attention and support for the awareness, early detection and treatment as well as palliative care of this disease. Though breast cancer is recognized as one of the top cancers affecting Banglades...
When I first watched Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action summit, my reaction was no different from Trump— “seems like a very happy young girl, looking forward to a bright and wonderful future, so nice to see.” But at the same time I found her rh...
Of late German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier vowed his country would never forget the atrocities of the Nazi period as he asked forgiveness from Poland during a series of commemorative events to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. Speaking at the ceremony in Warsaw...
BNP Vice Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu has recently been sued for “issuing a death threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina” during a TV talk show. Dudu issued the death threat to the PM during a talk show titled “Raj Kahon” on DBC news on Tuesday where he said that “Hasina ...
Of late, during a presentation on ‘Land Acquisition and Biodiversity Preservation Plan’ in adjacent areas of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Complex at Tungipara in Gopalganj, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rightly said that all villages will have to be ...
Some 200,000 Rohingyas rallied in a Bangladesh refugee camp to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees. Myanmar should take the full responsibility for the failure of the second attempt to repatriate the...
It is alarming to note that at least 224 people have been killed in road accidents across the country between August 6 and August 17. Another 866 people have also been injured in 203 accidents recorded across the country. Reportedly, most of the fatalities occurred when holidaymakers were trav...
Sixteen years ago, in the broad daylight of August 21, Islamist militants launched an atrocious grenade attack on a rally of the erstwhile opposition Awami League at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka. The barbaric onslaught that left 24 dead and more than 300 injured was carried out in accordance with a p...
August 15 is upon us again, a bleak reminder of that gruesome event in which the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most members of his family lost their lives. On this day, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members were brutally murdered by a handful of felonious army off...
National,Front Page
Dhaka is ready to please its residents’ appetite for enjoying the capital’s less polluted air and traffic free roads. The usual hustle and bustle of Dhaka has entered a short period of tranquility as millions of the dwellers have started to head out for ancestral home to celebrate the Ei...
A recent report of the Forest Department has revealed that the influx of the displaced Rohingyas has been causing extensive damage to forest resources of the Cox’s Bazar region. The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in a critical humanitarian emergency. The report reveals that Rohingy...
While addressing a meeting of Awami League (AL) leaders and workers through a teleconference from London, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the countrymen not to pay heed to rumors and hand over the rumor-mongers to the police. It is a pity that when the world is on the brink of the four...
Relentless efforts on the part of the government have successfully reinvigorated the country’s ICT sector in the past ten years. Different initiatives have been implemented by the government’s ICT wing to take the country’s ICT sector to the level of the first world countries....
We cannot rebut US President Donald Trump and his administration’s credit for the ingenuity in their efforts towards engaging North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un. The challenge now for the Trump administration is translating this renewed contact into a process that leads to some degree of d...
Thousands of years before the era of Roman empire, Iron Age was ushered into the world with the clank and clatter of the blacksmith's anvil. The transformation from the Bronze Age took place at different times in different parts of the world, but when and where it did, the dark metal brought wit...
From news rooms to parliament we often hear that ‘journalists are the mirror of the society’. But their journey to becoming a mirror to reflect the ugly events of our society is thorny indeed. In order to serve the people journalists have to dig up the truth or story behind the story tha...
It is heartening to note that while addressing the inaugural ceremony of a two-day international conference on climate change adaptation in Dhaka on Wednesday, former UN General-Secretary and the current chairman of the Global Commission on Adaptation Ban Ki-moon termed Bangladesh as the b...
Prime Minister’s ICT adviser and son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has rightly said that Digital Security Act 2018 will protect citizen’s data and privacy. According to him, digital security act has been made not to suppress freedom of expression rather to protect citizens and stop spreading of lies ...
Special Supplement,Magazine
As an impressionable listener of music I have found the deepest musical expression of emotion in the soul of flamenco.Flamenco is a fiery blend of voice, nylon string guitar and dance that has been burning in the heart of Spain for nearly 500 years. Flamenco is not only a Spanish musical art form or...
The news of cyberattcks on three local banks last month has exposed the tottering state of the country’s security systems in banking sector against a growing threat of scammers. Of the three, Dutch Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) was the biggest victim, losing as much as USD 3 million (around Tk 25...
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