‘Lebanon takes its time, and so it should!’
SO THE agony lingers on in Lebanon. Yet again, it is taking months to form a government acceptable to everybody, or which the government can sell to everybody.
100-year Delta Plan threat to deltaic equilibrium: experts
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 threatens the natural equilibrium that sustained the world’s largest delta for centuries, said geologists and hydrologists.
BNP to reconstitute front organisations by April
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party as part of its plan to revamp the party to overcome its debacle in the December 30 parliamentary elections, marred by flaws and fraud, has initiated a move to reconstitution three fornt organisations.
Vitamin A plus campaign today without ‘substandard’ Indian capsule
The national vitamin A plus campaign postponed about three weeks ago after problems were found in texture of vitamin capsules will be held today with locally produced vitamin capsules.
Bangladeshi-origin Anisha Faruk elected Oxford University SU president
Anisha Faruk, a Bangladeshi-origin student and former co-chair of the Oxford University Labour Club, has been elected president of the Oxford University Student Union.
Act properly to advance Bangladesh, PM tells army
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the Armed Forces to play the due role in advancing the nation as well as maintaining democratic and constitutional stability of Bangladesh.
Chinese student sentenced to a year in prison for taking photos of naval base
A 20-year-old Chinese student was sentenced to a year in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally taking pictures at a key US defense intelligence facility in Florida.
Two killed in Istanbul building collapse
At least two people were killed and six wounded after an eight-storey residential building collapsed in Istanbul of Turkey on Wednesday, the governor’s office said.
Candidates vaunt poverty
Affidavits of mayoral candidates for the forthcoming by-election to Dhaka North City Corporation show that they are poor, some having no car and some no house.
JOF leaders, activists protest at ‘vote robbery’
Jatiya Oikya Front went on demonstration wearing black badges in the Dhaka city on Wednesday protesting against the vote ‘robbery’ in the December 30 parliamentary elections.
