Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina asked the party leaders to sit with the  coordinators of the Quota Reform Movement to calm the country’s situation. The party’s presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Joint General Secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM Bahauddin Nasim have been assigned the responsibility. The ruling Awami League held an emergency meeting at Ganabhaban on Friday night ...

US Vice President Kamala Harris’s late entry into the White House race has galvanized young Democrats, a group whose participation will be crucial if the party hopes to defeat Donald Trump in November. When President Joe Biden announced on July 21 — with two simple messages on X — that he was withdrawing from the race and endorsing Harris, 28-year-old ...

The Conservatives can win the next general election but need to “confront some hard truths”, Robert Jenrick has said as he launched his campaign to replace Rishi Sunak as the party’s leader. Addressing supporters in his Newark constituency, he said the party should reject “defeatism” but also needed to be “grounded in realism”. He argued that the principle reason the ...

The Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement has announced nationwide demonstration for Saturday (August 3) and indefinite non-cooperation movement from Sunday in protest against killing attacking their peaceful procession. Asif Mahmud and Rifat Rashid, coordinator and assistant coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement, announced the programme through Facebook posts and video messages at 8:00pm on Friday (August 2). They also called upon the ...

A police constable was killed and another 25 were injured during clashes between police and protesters in Khulna city on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as constable Suman Gharami. Md Mozammel Haque, Khulna Metropolitan Police Commissioner, confirmed the matter. Eyewitnesses said the clash started in front of Khulna University (KU) at around 3:00 PM when police tried to disperse ...

The police have allegedly set barriers to the mass procession brought out by the students, under the platform of Students Against Demonstration, in Sylhet. When the protesting students attempted to march forward pushing the barriers aside, the policemen dispersed them firing tear gas shells, shotgun bullets, and sound grenades. Some seven people were detained from the spot. The incident took ...

Remittance inflow in the country declined 3.2 per cent to $1.91 billion in July compared to the same period last year. In July last year, remittance receipts were $1.97 billion, according to the Bangladesh Bank spokesperson Mezbaul Haque Remittance inflows and import LC openings declined over the past week as banks could not collect the money sent home by the ...

A court in Dhaka has granted bail to 42 HSC examinees who were arrested in connection with the cases filed with different police stations in the capital over violence during the quota reform movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam granted them bail in seperate orders on Friday. DMP’s prosecution branch’s deputy commissioner Anisur Rahman confirmed it. Earlier, the Ministry of ...

A study says that a vegan diet has no impact on the levels of carnitine and vitamin B2 in breast milk, two nutrients essential for a newborn’s growth. The Amsterdam University Medical Center’s study found these facts. Research has found that lactating mothers following a vegan diet compared to mothers with an omnivorous diet showed no difference in the human ...

A Michigan Medicine study found that high systolic blood pressure (the top number on the blood pressure reading and how hard the heart pumps blood to the arteries) increases the risk of the two most common types of strokes over time. The study looked at the average systolic blood pressure years before the first stroke in over 40,000 adults aged ...