Dhaka, Oct : 21 – A 22-day a group art exhibition of oriental art titled Praccher Prachin Dhara (Ancient Lineage of the East) will begin at the Gallery Cosmos in the city’s Mohakhali area on Tuesday. Rensje Teerink, Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh, will inaugurate the exhibition as the special guest. The show was ...

Photo : Pro-Brexit protesters hold out their placards and flags as traffic moves past the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. London, Oct 22 : British lawmakers from across the political spectrum are expected to challenge Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s drive to push his European Union divorce bill through the House of Commons by Thursday, potentially scuttling ...

Photo : Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau arrives at the poling station with his son Hadrian, his wife Sophie and daughter Ella-Grace in Montreal, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. Toronto, Oct 22 : Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was set to win a second term in Canada’s national elections Monday, losing the majority but delivering unexpectedly strong results despite ...

Photo : In this Sept. 23, 2019 file photo, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks as he meets with President Donald Trump at the InterContinental Barclay hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. Cairo, Oct 22 : The latest breakdown in talks with Ethiopia over its construction of a massive upstream Nile dam has left Egypt with dwindling ...

Faridpur, Oct 22 : District administration in separate drives from Monday night till Tuesday morning jailed nine fishermen for catching hilsa from the  Padma and the Arial Khan rivers defying a government ban and destroyed 20,000 meters current nets. The jailed fishermen are Shahajahan, Salam, Joynal, Alal Shikder, Rashed, Abdur Sardar, Sharif Sardar, Arshad Mondol and Piar Mondol. All of ...

Rabiul Alam. Chattogram, Oct 22 : Police arrested a youth from a hotel at Laldighi here on Monday night for reportedly sharing a provocative status on his Facebook wall against the Chattogram Police Commissioner. The arrestee was identified as Rabiul Alam, 28, son of Ahmed Hossain of Purba Puichhari village in Bashkhali upazila. Mohammad Mohsin, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station, ...

Photo: Courtesy Dhaka, Oct 22 : Over 19 million children — a quarter of them under 5 — spread across Bangladesh are at the front line of climate change disasters, a UN report says mentioning that climate change threatens child nutrition here. In 2018, 58.7 million children under 5 were stunted and almost 25.9 million were wasted in South Asia, ...

Photo: Courtesy Tokyo (Japan), Oct 22 : President Abdul Hamid joined the enthronement ceremony of Japanese Emperor Naruhito at the State Hall of Imperial Palace at 1pm (local time) on Tuesday. The enthronement ceremony was held as a part of national ceremony ( from Oct 22 to October 31) to celebrate the enthronement of the Emperor. President Abdul Hamid’s wife ...

National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reform (NICAR) today conditionally approved formation of Faridpur City Corporation (FCC), seven new police stations and one municipality in its meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. “The NICAR gave approval to 15 proposals including conditional formation of Faridpur City Corporation (FCC), seven new police stations and one municipality,” Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul ...

Sylhet Office : US Ambassador to Bangladesh Robert Miller on Monday visited Ratargul, one of the largest swamp forests of Asian continent. He arrived at the Chourongi ghat area of Ratargul at 1.30 in the afternoon, and visited the swamp forest area by boat for about two hours. At one stage, he took a walk through the dry area of ...