State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam on Tuesday said the US’s 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Bangladesh contains some “fundamental shortcomings and mistakes” and Dhaka will raise those to Washington. “We will raise these shortcomings with the US side so that such things do not exist in the next year’s report,” he told reporters at ...

President M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday (March 21, 2023) evening received credentials from the ambassadors of Turkey and Philippines to Bangladesh in two subsequent ceremonies and they were ceremonially welcomed at Bangabhaban in Dhaka. The envoys are Ramis Sen of the Republic of Turkey and Leo Tito L. Ausan Jr. of the Republic of the Philippines. Receiving their credentials, the ...

The crescent moon was not sighted on Tuesday evening in Saudi Arabia and Thursday, March 23, will be the start of the holy month of Ramadan, the Kingdom’s Supreme Court has said, reports Arab News. The kingdom’s supreme court ruled on Tuesday evening that the Islamic calendar month of Shaban, which precedes Ramadan, will end on Wednesday, meaning Ramadan will ...

Two people from Sylhet Division have died after being walloped at their workplace in Portugal’s agricultural and tourist town of Beja. They died on Monday (March 20) afternoon local time while driving a construction site. The deceased are Suhed Ahmed (32) of village Kargaon Ujanpara of Laxnaband union of Golapganj police station of Sylhet district and Shaheen Ahmed (47) of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has insisted on proper utilisation of the projects coming out of the tendency to construct buildings and purchasing foreign cars. She gave the insistence at a meeting of the ECNEC held at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. The meeting approved a total of 9 projects with an overall of estimated cost of ...

Extreme heat is already here, so heat wave alerts are now in effect. Additionally, even though you may apply copious amounts of sunscreen to exposed skin to protect it, body parts like the underarms take the biggest hit, particularly in warm weather. Razor bumps, roughness, dark scars, patchiness, and skin irritation are all visible there. While washing your underarms frequently, ...

The Reserve Bank of India, in its monthly bulletin on Tuesday, noted that consumer price inflation (or retail inflation) in India remained high while core inflation defied to reflect the softening of various input costs. “Consumer price inflation remains high and core inflation continues to defy the distinct softening of input costs,” RBI said in the ‘State of the Economy’ ...

We have all heard that “age doesn’t matter if your heart is full of life,” while it may be true in some sense, one needs to be attentive about their age and address the complexities it brings into life. As women move to their 30’s, the body instantly starts experiencing the turbulence of hormonal changes. They become more susceptible to ...

BNP vice-chairman Shaukat Mahmood has been expelled from the party. Shayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the party’s media cell, confirmed the matter this on Tuesday. He is the former president and general secretary of Jatiya Press Club. Shaukat Mahmood was expelled from all posts and his primary membership of the party was cancelled on charge of his involvement in ...

Goainghat upazila administration of Sylhet took the initiative to make a master plan two years ago to bring Ratargul Jalaban (Swamp Forest) under planned management. At that time, the teachers of Shahjalal Science and Technology University were also said to be associated with it. But the work has not yet started according to that plan. And the officials of the ...