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Rayhan Ahmed Topader: Student protests spread like wildfire across the capital and elsewhere in the country yesterday, with the demonstrators vowing to remain on the streets until their demands for road safety are met. Angered by police beating on the previous day, thousands of students in uniforms and schoolbags on their back poured onto the streets of Dhaka and blocked ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader: European Union leaders have defended a migration deal struck during talks in Brussels as doubts emerged about whether they would fulfil their promises to build secure centres for processing asylum claims of people rescued at sea. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said Europe had made a step in the right direction on migration as she prepared to ...

  F R Chowdhury: It was Wednesday 18-July-2018, I was still on my morning breakfast listening to the TV news. The headline news was about a court verdict that gave £210,000.oo damages to Sir Cliff Richard for breach of his privacy by BBC. The story relates to a police search of Sir Richard’s house to look for suspected evidence of ...

  By Advocate Md Halim Bepari, London Introduction: Green Card is a lawful officially granted permanent resident. A Green Card holder is someone who has been granted authorization to live and work in the Country. As proof of that status, a person is granted a permanent resident card, commonly called a “Green Card.”Green Card called ‘Carta di Soggiorno’ in European ...

Gulshan killing tarnished our image as a nation. We are normally considered as a peace loving moderate nation. If this type of atrocity continues to occur, it may pose a question in future as to how we continue to work as a peace keeper of the nations by being employed as peace keeping force by the UN.  As such this ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader : EIGHT SYRIANS, most of them women and childr- en, have been killed by Turkish border guards while fleeing their war-torn homeland.The group was trying to cross into Turkey via a mountain smuggling route at the western end of the frontier when they were pushed back by Turkish forces firing live rounds.Mobile phone footage obtained by the ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader : India is the home of Twenty20 cricket. Interestingly, theirs was a reluctant journey because they initially shied away for fear of it having a negative impact on television earnings. How ridiculous that seems now. The introduction of the Indian Premier League set the tone for Twenty 20.At best colourful, enter- taining and a serious money-spinner, at worst ...

In 2003, UK with USA and 46 other countries went to the warin Iraq on the grounds of Saddam Hossain had mass destruction weapons which could be activated within 45 minutes. Most of the fellow MPs along with people at large were opposing the UK’s invasion of Iraq, but Mr. Tony Blair being the then prime minister of the UK ...

By Fatema Miah : 70.8 North, 69.2 East. It’s the Latitude Long co-ordinate location of a section of the Yamal Peninsula in Siberian Russia. A typically chilly region of frozen but now thawing ground more than 4 degrees of Latitude north of the Arctic Circle. A place that saw the appearance of odd, disturbing (and now controversial) methane blowholes pockmarking ...

Words of Peace from the Land of Peace   Dr. Mozammel Haque : Makkah al-Mukarramah: I wish all of you a happy Eid Mubarak 2016 from the Masjid-al-Haram in the Balad al-Ameen. The Saudi Royal Court announced that Wednesday has been declared as the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr, a celebration marking the end of fasting in Ramadan. The declaration was ...