By Fatema Miah Ramadan is an Arabic month which is well known to the world, obviously to the Muslims also to Non-Muslims because of the importance of Muslims preserving the fast. Ra madan is the Ninth Lunar calendar month of Arabic year and the Arabic Lunar calendar months are followed by entire Muslim (Ummah) population throughout the world. Ramadan word ...

Joint Declaration between Bangladesh and India during Visit of Prime Minister of India to Bangladesh June 6-7, 2015   1.                  At the invitation of the Prime Minister of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of India, Mr.  Narendra Modi, paid a State visit to Bangladesh from 6-7June ...

Dr. Abu Reza Indian need for an optimal mode of transit across Bangladesh is well recognised. To extend friendly cooperation to India, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman displayed his foresight and sagacity by restoring the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade in 1972 which had been suspended by the Pakistan authorities in 1965. The protocol, importantly, was conditioned on the ...

Bangla Mirror  Desk: Schools will be able to monitor radicalisation of pupils online using new spy software which detects key words used by extremists, it has been announced. Up to 40 per cent of secondary head teachers are expected to adopt the software, which is an upgrade of existing anti-bullying technology already used in their schools. Several companies are producing ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has arrived in London to visit United Kingdom for five day on June 12. A highly placed source at the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ganabhaban said that this will be her five-day personal visit to Britain. During her visit, Prime Minister Hasina will spend time with her younger sister Sheikh ...

Bangla Mirror desk: A businessman has become the first person in the UK to be jailed under forced marriage laws introduced a year ago. The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Wednesday after making a 25-year-old woman marry him under threat last year. The man, who was already married, “systematically” ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Children from disadvantaged backgrounds or with special needs may be marked down in critical primary school assessments because of unconscious bias affecting their teachers, according to research published on Tuesday. The research also suggests familiar gender stereotypes – that boys are good at maths and girls are better at reading – may create a vicious cycle, and ...

Kishoreganj’s absconding Razakar commander Syed Md Hasan Ali will have to die for massacring his own people to stop Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan, a court says.   The first war crimes tribunal delivered the verdict on Tuesday after five out of the six charges had been proven beyond doubt. The verdict by the International Crimes Tribunal-1 said the “death be ...

Former Speaker of Parliament Sheikh Razzak Ali has died aged 87. Ali’s family said he breathed his last around 2:45pm on Sunday at his residence at Faraziparha in Khulna City. His sister-in-law Shamima Sultana Shilu told bdnews24.com the veteran politician was suffering from cancer. He said the family was yet to decide about the time of his Namaz-e-Janaza. Ali, a ...

 Narendra Modi greeted as he alights in Dhaka on two-day maiden state visit to Bangladesh. A red carpet has been rolled out for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has arrived in Dhaka on a two-day state visit, his first to Bangladesh after assuming power. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina welcomed him near the VVIP Tarmac of the Hazrat Shahjalal ...