Author: Asian Bangla

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Hiroyasu Izumi on Sunday hoped that the Rohingya issue will be resolved as soon as possible in a peaceful manner. UNB NEWS Ambassador Izumi was addressing at the inaugural session of a two-day international conference on ‘Bangladesh in International Peace-building: Experience from Japan’ in the city. The Japanese Ambassador said his country supports Bangladesh for the safe repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar. Chairman, parliamentary standing committee on ministry of foreign affairs, Dr Dipu Moni, MP, spoke at the event as the chief guest. Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS)…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday promised to bring to justice those responsible for the accident that took the lives of two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and College. unb “This is completely unforgivable because the driver was driving the bus defying all the [traffic] rules, resulting in the loss of two lives…many students were also injured,” she said. The Prime Minister said this while speaking at a programme at Armed Forces Medical College ground after laying the foundation stone of an underpass at a road adjacent to Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and College…

Asianbangla, Desk :The country is unlikely to face any shortage of cattle during the Eid-ul-Azha this year as the supply of locally-reared cattle is quite enough to meet the demand of sacrificial animals, said officials. According to the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry, there are now 1.16 crore sacrificial animals in the country for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha against last year’s 1.04 crore. The ministry also said there are 44.57 lakh sacrificial cattle and buffalos while 71 lakh goats and sheep across the country. On the other hand, the number of healthy sacrificial cows and buffalos is 29.20 lakh while that of…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Unidentified assailants shot and injured three Jubo League men in the capital’s Wari area last night. Mohammad Jewel, 35, is general secretary; Robin, 30, and Kajol Islam, 35, are activists of ward-41 unit of the youth wing of the ruling Awami League, said the victims. With leg injuries, they were undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Sub-Inspector Bachchu Mia of DMCH police camp. Police suspect feud over money or internal affairs led to the gun attack. The three along with others were chatting at a butcher’s shop in Dakkhin Musundi area around 9:00pm, said Shah…

Hossain Zillur Rahman Howsoever one tries to explain it, the death of Dia and Rajib, the two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College, on the Airport Road ten or so fateful days ago, can never be called an “accident”. Accidents are accidental. This, in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s metaphor, was more of a “death foretold”—a tragic finale to a grisly chain of impunity and mis-governance that is blighting our roads and road transportation and indeed our collective future. For a country aspiring to Middle Income status, it is shocking how backward the state of road governance is and the types…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Sexual violence against ethnic minority women is used as one of the main tools to force the people living in hills to migrate elsewhere leaving their ancestral lands, say experts and human right activists. UNB Pallab Chakma, Executive Director of Kapaeeng Foundation (KF), a human rights organisation working for promoting and protecting rights of the ethnic minorities in Bangladesh, told UNB that ‘indigenous’ people are being evicted from their ancestral lands which is being grabbed by other communities in the hill tracts, creating insecurity among them. Continuous threats from influential quarters and local political leaders also lead…

Shah Husain Imam This is entitled not to a freaky triumphalism but to a celebration of human compassion for the collective risk to lives on roads. This found a powerful utterance and demonstration through our tender-aged progeny’s intelligent intervention for a few days. Apolitical, non-partisan and wholly dedicated to a long-neglected public interest, their message had an irresistible moral appeal. The youngsters offered us a stand-alone luminous time-warp, detached from more-of-the-same monotone and unprejudiced by any spoilt sequel. Those boys and girls in their early to mid-teens made a statement from July 29 to August 5 with quiet dignity and…

Asianbangla Desk : The Israel-Gaza border was quiet yesterday after an Egyptian-brokered truce ended a surge in violence that had shaken southern Israel and the Gaza Strip for two days. Reuters But the ceasefire will face its first test later in the day, as Palestinians in Gaza planned on resuming weekly border protests, which at times have become violent. After a quiet night, Israel’s military told residents in the south, who had spent much of the past two days in rocket shelters, they could return to their daily routines. A rise in cross-border rockets and air strikes in recent weeks…

Asianbangla Desk : Pakistan’s World Cup cricket hero Imran Khan will be sworn in as prime minister next week, his party said yesterday, announcing it has the numbers to form a coalition government in the nuclear-armed nation. Afp, Islamabad Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said the entire squad that Khan captained to victory in the 1992 World Cup were invited to the ceremony, as well as Indian cricket greats Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Navjot Singh Sidhu. PTI emerged victorious in the July 25 elections, the country’s second-ever democratic transition of power, but fell short of an outright majority. The…

Asianbangla Desk : Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday unveiled details of plans to build a US Space Force that would become the sixth branch of America’s massive military, saying the time has come to prepare for “the next battlefield.” Afp, Washington President Donald Trump ordered the creation of Space Force in June, arguing the Pentagon needs it to tackle vulnerabilities in space and assert US dominance in orbit. Its creation however is not a done deal, as it needs to be approved by Congress, and the concept has met with some skepticism from lawmakers and defense officials wary of…