Author: Asian Bangla

Asianbangla, Dhaka : For five long hours since 1:30pm, Dhanmondi Road-3 became a battlefield yesterday. On one side of it were thousands of school and college students. On the other end, a small group of people, allegedly belonging to Chhatra League and other front organisations of the ruling Awami League. Both groups were armed with stones and sticks, chasing each other intermittently. Rumours of deaths and sexual harassment of some protesters were rife, which further angered the students who dislodged the bamboo sticks fringing the road divider, gathered stones and shouted slogans. Then came the attack. A group of alleged BCL…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday ruled out any possibility of entering into discussion with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party if it didn’t seek apology and give up celebrating August 15 as the ‘fake birthday’ of the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia. The road transport and bridges minister also lambasted Khaleda for celebrating birthday on the National Mourning Day and anniversary of death of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He also said that BNP’s arrogance closed the door on holding any dialogue with them. BNP awarded the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and its founder Ziaur…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : “I am suffering, of course. But the student protest is logical. Suppose, I’m standing by the road; now what if a bus runs over me?” said Md Ainuddin, who came to Birdem hospital at Shahbagh from Rajbari for treatment. 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 various streets,…

Asianbangla, Patuakhali : The businessmen in Kuakata sea beach area are worried as erosion has taken a serious turn in recent days due to tidal surge. Locals said tidal surge is the main cause of erosion in Kuakata. At least 10 feet of a paved road at Kuakata Zero Point were washed away this season as heavy tidal surge hit the shore. Investors, people’s representatives and journalists had been holding programmes, including human chains in different areas for the last two weeks, demanding steps for protection of the area. Local people, journalists, tourists and businessmen formed a human chain on the…

Asianbangla Desk : More than 150 Islamic State fighters surrendered to Afghan security forces in the northwestern province of Jawzjan after they were defeated and driven out by the Taliban, Taliban and government officials said yesterday. Reuters. The defeat represents a major setback for the group, which first appeared in eastern Afghanistan around four years ago and which had gained a foothold in southern Jawzjan, where it fought for control of smuggling routes into neighbouring Turkmenistan. “The evil phenomenon of Daesh has completely been eliminated and people have been freed from its tortures in Jawzjan province of Afghanistan,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah…

Asianbangla Desk : Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday told his troops they were close to winning the country’s seven-year civil war after inflicting a succession of defeats on rebels. AFP Early last year, government forces held just 17 percent of national territory but a series of blistering offensives has since forced the rebels out of many of their strongholds, putting Assad’s government in control of nearly two-thirds of the country. “Our date with victory is near,” Assad wrote in an open letter to the rank and file. “They (the rebels) were ultimately forced to leave — humiliated, rolled back, their tails…

Asianbangla Desk : Bangladesh held on to its status as the second biggest apparel supplier in the world in 2017, accounting for 6.5 percent share of the market, according to data from the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In 2017, Bangladesh exported garment items worth $29 billion, the data said. In 2016, Bangladesh’s share of the global apparel market was 6.4 percent. China remained the largest apparel supplier globally, although its share shrank to 34.9 percent. The value of exported clothing items from China last year was $158 billion. Vietnam came in third with its 5.9 percent market share, the WTO data…

Asianbangla Desk : It will be a totally new experience for the Bangladesh cricketers when they take part in their maiden international match in the United States of America on Saturday. The visitors will take on West Indies in the remaining two matches of the three-match T20I series, scheduled for August 4 and 5 at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium in Florida. It will also be a marked change in atmosphere from the Caribbean. But Shakib Al Hasan and his troops will have to get used to the change pretty fast if they are to save the three-T20I series after…

Pakistani soldiers patrol a street with a billboard featuring an image of Imran Khan in Rawalpindi. Photo: Aamir Qures Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd) This was the second consecutive election in Pakistan held following the completion of full tenure of the incumbent government, but Nawaz Sharif added his name, once again, to the ingloriously long list of prime ministers not to have completed his or her full term in office. The circumstances of decoupling the leader of the ruling party from politics and election, and his subsequent conviction on charges of corruption and incarceration have raised serious…

Asianbangla Desk : In the mountains of central Vietnam, a colossal pair of hands lifts a golden thread of walkway high above the clifftops, as if the mountain itself has sprouted limbs. Reuters. “I feel like I’m walking on clouds,” said Vuong Thuy Linh, a tourist from Hanoi. “It’s so unique”. Cau Vang or the “Golden Bridge” in Vietnam’s Ba Na Hills has attracted scores of tourists since it opened in June, eager to see a novel piece of architecture famed for its unusual design. The pedestrian walkway, designed by TA Landscape Architecture in Ho Chi Minh City, sits at over…