After the killing of Police Super (SP) Babul Akhter’s wife Mahmuda Khatun Mitu in Chittagong, Bangladesh another police officer of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Muhammad Sanwar Hossain declares a ‘new war’ against the militant. He said on his facebook post that the new war will be to uproot the extremist. DMP Counter Terrorism and…
Thirty-seven years ago, on February 18, “greatest” heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) visited the South Asian nation of Bangladesh, then only seven years old at the time, born of a deadly civil war in 1971. In February 1978, after he had lost the heavyweight title to Leon Spinks, Ali journeyed to Bangladesh with…
The Indian government is ready with draft amendments to citizenship law that will exempt minority citizens of Bangladesh and Pakistan who have come to India out of fear of religious prosecution from being tagged as “illegal migrants”. Here is all about the existing law and the draft amendment: Who is a refugee? A refugee, according…
India Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh during a review meeting on Thursday order that the border with Bangladesh in Assam be sealed. The decision comes days after Assam Chief MinisterSarbananda Sonowal had said that the borders with the eastern neighbour will be sealed within two year’s time to put an end to infiltration. According to…
US President Barack Obama has written to the family members of slain LGBT magazine “Roopbaan” editor Xulhaz Mannan extending his condolences over the killing. The letter was handed over to family members of Xulhaz on Thursday morning from the director of USAID mission in Bangladesh, Minhaz Mannan, the elder brother of Xulhaz, said. Minhaz said…
The same parts of the brain activated by winning money and eating chocolate is activated when teenagers see large numbers of social media “likes” on their own photos, a new study has found. Scientists from UCLA’s (University of California, Los Angeles) Brain Mapping Centre conducting a study involving 32 teenagers aged between 13 and 18.…
A hoarding at the Mohammad V University in Moroccan capital Rabat, where India vice-president Hamid Ansari was scheduled to address on Wednesday, depicted a map of India which showed Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan as its parts. The hoarding was placed at the entrance of the venue. The college authorities pasted a white tape over…
It was at a void deck in Sembawang that the group which came to be known as the Islamic State in Bangladesh (ISB) began in January. Its leader, Bangladeshi draftsman Rahman Mizanur, 31, met three of his countrymen – Miah Rubel, 26; Zzaman Daulat, 34; and Sohag Ibrahim, 27 – and discussed the arrests…
Dear Fahim Bhai, I am constrained to have to point out that your recent news coverage on GPA 5 students has sent shock waves all across the nation. On social media as you are surely aware – it has gone viral. While I thank you ever so much for the timely intervention on a…
MaasrangaTV, a Bangladeshi private satellite TV channel produced a visual package report on depth of knowledge who obtained GPA 5 in last SSC examination. Through the social network the report went viral and made mixed reaction. Online users became astonished watching the poor knowledge of some GPA 5 holders. At the same time they…
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