Former interim government adviser Mahfuz Alam has called on all parties to ensure that Eid-e-Miladunnabi (PBUH) celebrations take place without obstruction. He made the call in a Facebook post on Tuesday. Mahfuz Alam wrote, “All arrangements on the occasion of Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH) Continue Reading
The chiefs of the three armed forces paid a courtesy call on President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at Bangabhaban on Tuesday afternoon. Army Chief General Waqar-uz-Zaman, Navy Chief Admiral Khondaker Misbah-ul-Azeem and Air Chief Marshal Hassan Mahmud Khan met the President and exchanged views. The President congratulated the three service chiefs and wished them success Continue Reading
China’s next-generation long-range missiles and hypersonic weapons are creating new risks for key US military aircraft operating in the region, according to American defence experts. Citing a Bloomberg report, analysts say China is developing weapons systems capable of targeting military aircraft from long distances, potentially even when they are operating far from the US Continue Reading
The Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance will hold a long march from Dhaka to Chattogram on September 5 with six demands, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar announced on Tuesday (August 25). He made the announcement at a press conference organised by the 11-party alliance in Dhaka. At the press conference, He said, “Today’s press conference Continue Reading
The world’s oceans have recorded their highest-ever average temperatures, raising fresh concerns over the worsening impacts of climate change. Scientists have warned that the unprecedented warming, coupled with increasingly extreme climate patterns, could be developing into a “Super El Niño.” According to a report by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the average global Continue Reading
Allama Abdul Hamid, known as Madhupur Pir Sahib and convener of the Sammilit Khatme Nabuwat Parishad, has demanded that State Minister for Religious Affairs Shamim Kaiser Lincoln be replaced by a qualified scholar who follows the Hanafi school of thought. He also called for the repeal of what he described as a controversial transgender-related labour […]Continue Reading
The government has formed a cabinet committee to assist the Ministry of Agriculture with fertiliser-related issues. The Cabinet Division issued a notification on Monday (August 24) announcing the formation of the ‘Cabinet Committee to assist the Ministry of Agriculture on fertiliser issues’. Women and Children Affairs and Social Welfare Minister Abu Zafar Md Zahid Hossain Continue Reading
Strong criticism has been voiced over the appointment and recent activities of State Minister for Religious Affairs Shamim Kaiser Lincoln at a National Ulema-Mashaykh Convention in Dhaka on Tuesday (August 25). The convention began at 10am at the Diploma Engineers Institute in Kakrail. Maulana Abdur Rab Yusufi, senior vice-president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, was Continue Reading
The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) has raised gold prices again, taking the price of 22-carat gold to Tk 247,743 per bhori (11.664 grams). The new price, up to Tk 1,633 per bhori, came into effect at 10am on Tuesday (August 25). According to BAJUS, the increase follows a rise in the price of acid gold […]Continue Reading
India’s Allahabad High Court has dismissed a student’s plea seeking permission to wear a hijab with her school uniform, ruling that wearing a hijab is not an essential religious practice of Islam whose absence would undermine religious faith. The court also held that students do not have an individual right to alter an institution’s prescribed […]Continue Reading






















