(BSS/AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday slammed the international community for turning a blind eye to widespread starvation in the Gaza Strip, calling it a “moral crisis that challenges the global conscience.” “I cannot explain the level of indifference and inaction we see by too many in the international community — the lack of compassion, the lack of truth, the lack of humanity,” Guterres told Amnesty International’s global assembly via video link. “This is not just a humanitarian crisis. It is a moral crisis that challenges the global conscience. We will continue to speak out at every opportunity.”…
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The Information Commission will be constituted soon. “The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has taken the initiative in this connection,” said a press ministry release. A notification regarding the formation of the Information Commission will be issued in a few days. According to the Right to Information Act, 2009, this commission will be formed with one Chief Information Commissioner and two Information Commissioners. At least one of the two Information Commissioners will be a woman.
Party symbols will no longer be used in local government election, Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain said today. He made this information public at a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital this afternoon. Asif Mahmud said the council of advisers today approved amendments to four relevant laws placed by the Local Government Division. The meeting of the council was held at the Chief Adviser’s Office (CAO) here with Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in the chair.
(BSS) – Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam has said there is no reason for the government to conceal the figures of the casualties in the Bangladesh Air Force training jet crash into Milestone School and College building in the capital’s Uttara on Monday. “I can unequivocally say that there is no reason for the government to show the incident less important than it really happened,” he wrote in a facebook post today. In his post, Shafiqul Alam said yesterday they visited Milestone College and met the bereaved families and students and teachers who are still reeling from the shock…
Too much moose meat and a set of antlers strapped to a wing brought a small plane down in Alaska, killing its pilot, according to a crash report published this week. Eugene Peltola died hours after his aircraft — carrying over 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of moose meat — plunged into mountains near St Mary’s in southwest Alaska in September 2023. A report released Tuesday by the US National Transportation Safety Board found the hefty meat cargo meant the plane was more than 100 pounds over its takeoff weight when it left a remote airstrip in the Yukon Delta National…
Brazil on Wednesday announced its intention to join a South African-led case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in which Israel stands accused of committing “genocide” in Gaza. The foreign ministry in Brasilia said the country was “in the final phase of presenting a formal intervention” in the case already formally joined by states including Colombia, Libya and Mexico, and supported by many others. In December 2023, South Africa brought a case to the United Nations’ highest court in The Hague, alleging Israel’s Gaza offensive breached the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of…
(BSS) – BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia returned to her Gulshan residence Firoza after health check-up at Evercare Hospital here. The BNP Chairperson reached her Gulshan residence at about 2.52 am today.
(BSS) – Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested former Chief Justice A. B. M. Khairul Haque from the capital’s Dhanmondi area this morning Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) confirmed it to BSS. Khairul Haque was arrested as he was accused in three cases on specific charges, he said Khairul was brought to the DB office at Mintoo Road here.
(BSS) – Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR) Directorate director Lieutenant Colonel Sami Ud Dowla Chowdhury has said rumours were spreading on social media about the death toll in Monday’s Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet crash on a building of Milestone School and College at Uttara here. “Many people believe the rumours without understanding,” he said in a text to media on Wednesday. The ISPR director said immediately after the incident, Bangladesh Army responded with utmost efforts to the incident without any prior instructions. “We have no intention or attempt to conceal any information about our children. I myself and the…
Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus today held a meeting with 13 more political parties on recent situation of the country following the meeting with four parties last night. The meeting began at 3 pm at his official residence Jamuna, CA’s Deputy Press Secretary Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said. Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) general secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince, Gano Forum general secretary Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal general secretary Bazlur Rashid Firoz, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leader Tania Rob, Gano Sanghati Andolon chief coordinator Jonayed Saki, AB Party chief Mujibur Rahman Manju, Nagorik Oikya leader Shahidullah…
