February2024
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Bangladesh and Egypt to form parliamentary friendly group
Feb 7, 2024Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the speaker of Jatiya Sangsad (JS), was visited by Egyptian Ambassador to Bangladesh Omar Mohim Aldin Ahmed Fahmi today in her office. According to a release, the topics of discussion during the... -
Human footprints 100,000 years old found in Morocco
Feb 7, 2024More than 80 of the earliest human footprints in North Africa, which date back to 100,000 years, have been found by Moroccan archaeologists. Archaeologists from Morocco, Spain, France, and Germany found the footprints on the coast... -
UK papers urge public to support king as cancer treatment starts
Feb 7, 2024Every national newspaper in Britain announced on Tuesday that King Charles III had cancer. Articles praised the king for disclosing his condition and urged readers to support him. The tabloid The Sun claimed that more people... -
Russia claims to have thwarted Ukrainian drone attack
Feb 7, 2024On Tuesday morning, Russia asserted that it had prevented a drone strike launched by Kyiv during the night in the western Belgorod region that borders Ukraine. “Tonight, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out... -
Govt. to formulate ad policy for online media: Mohammad Ali Arafat
Feb 7, 2024Today, Mohammad Ali Arafat, the State Minister for Information and Broadcasting, said that an online media advertisement strategy will be developed. “There is a necessity of a policy to determine government advertisement rates for online newspapers... -
Biman to buy aircraft considering commercial profitability: Faruk
Feb 7, 2024Muhammad Faruk Khan, the minister of civil aviation and tourism, announced today that Biman Bangladesh Airlines will buy a plane from either the European aerospace behemoth Airbus or the US-based Boeing, depending on which one would... -
Iran’s ‘oldest’ woman dies at 125: reports
Feb 7, 2024At 125 years old, an Iranian woman who was thought to be the nation’s oldest woman has away, according to local media on Tuesday. Masoumeh Sanei Toroghi was born in the northern city of Mashhad on... -
Blinken starts Mideast tour to press for Gaza truce
Feb 7, 2024In an attempt to broker a fresh ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken touched down in Saudi Arabia on Monday as part of his ongoing tour of the Middle East’s crises.... -
BGMEA for branding Bangladesh to propel country forward
Feb 7, 2024The President of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), Faruque Hassan, emphasized the need of branding Bangladesh in order to draw in foreign investment and strengthen the nation’s standing internationally. During a business conference... -
Dhaka summons Myanmar’s envoy over escalated frontier violence
Feb 7, 2024Due to the increased violence across the border that resulted in the deaths of two persons in Cox’s Bazar over night and the recent inflow of more than 116 military and paramilitary Burmese personnel, Bangladesh called...