700+ migrants missing or feared dead in Mediterranean shipwrecks
At least 65 migrants have died from shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea in the past week. And with hundreds still missing, officials fear the death toll could soar above 700.
Marco Rubio: I'd 'maybe' run for re-election if my friend wasn't
Marco Rubio said he would consider running for re-election to the Senate if Florida's lieutenant governor, a close friend of his, had not entered the race to succeed him.
Kurds: Peshmerga eye Mosul in advance on ISIS territor
Thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga troops are involved in an offensive to regain formerly Kurdish villages near the ISIS-held town of Mosul, Kurdish officials say.
Zia’s 35th death anniv today
Today is the 35th death anniversary of late president Ziaur Rahman, also the founder of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Investment in nat’l savings tools soars to Tk 26,488cr in 10 months
The net investment in the national savings certificates and bonds in the first 10 months of the current financial year 2015-16 stood at Tk 26,487.72 crore and is set to surpass the revised (upward) annual target of Tk 28,000 crore at the end of the fiscal year due to the clients’ rush for the tools.
Enhanced budget for plain land minorities demanded
Politicians, civil society members and leaders of ethnic minority groups on Sunday demanded that the government allocate enhanced budget for the country’s plain land ethnic minority peoples to improve their social status and livelihood.
3 more killed in electoral violence
Three more people were killed in electoral violence in Narayanganj and Panchagarh on Sunday and Saturday night, taking to 114 the death toll from electoral violence in the maiden partisan elections to union parishads.
President asks Bangladesh peacekeepers to work with professionalism
President Abdul Hamid has urged the Bangladesh peacekeepers in the UN peacekeeping mission to continue to work maintaining professionalism, honesty, devotion and sincerity saying that Bangladesh is always ready to establish peace in any corner of the world under the UN Security Council.
আজব টকশোর নিরপেক্ষ ময়নাতদন্ত! (গোলাম মাওলা রনি)
কক্সবাজারের লাবণী পয়েন্টের ঝিনুক মার্কেটের ব্যবসায়ীরা সেদিন একটু আশ্চর্য হয়েই পরস্পরকে জিজ্ঞাসা করতে লাগলেন, লোকটি কে? কিন্তু ব্যবসায়ীদের মধ্যে কেউই লোকটির পরিচয়, পদ-পদবি সম্পর্কে অবহিত ছিলেন না। লোকটি ২-৩ জন স্থানীয় ষণ্ডাগণ্ডা প্রকৃতির যুবক এবং ৩-৪ জন বন্দুকধারী পুলিশের কনস্টেবলকে নিজের বডিগার্ড বানিয়ে ঝিনুক মার্কেটে ঘুরে বেড়াচ্ছিলেন এবং এ দোকান ও দোকানে উঁকিঝুঁকি মেরে শামুক-ঝিনুকের মালা এবং বার্মিজ আচার এবং জুতা-স্যান্ডেলের দরদাম জিজ্ঞাসা করছিলেন।
Japan with Bangladesh in its dev journey
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday assured his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina of continuing his county’s support to materialise her Vision-2021 for elevating Bangladesh to a middle-income country by 2021.
