(BSS) – Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hold an emergency press conference on the country’s ongoing political situation this afternoon. The press conference will be held at the BNP Chairperson’s political office in Gulshan here at 1 pm. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will spoke at the press conference, BNP Assistant Office Secretary Taiful Islam Tipu said. Earlier, on Monday, BNP also held an emergency press conference on the ongoing political situation.
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(BSS) – National Consensus Commission Vice-Chairman Professor Ali Riaz today said every political party in Bangladesh shares a unified stance on restoring the caretaker government system. “All political parties in Bangladesh hold unanimous view on reinstatement of the caretaker government and there is a specific consensus on this issue,” he said. Ali Riaz made the statement in a press briefing held at the Doel Hall of the Foreign Service Academy in the capital, marking the conclusion of the eighth day of the second phase of talks between political parties and the National Consensus Commission. Mentioning that a concrete consensus has…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today directed authorities concerned to introduce e-learning at least 100 schools in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) within this year by resolving all crises immediately. He gave the directives at a meeting at the State Guest House Jamuna here. The meeting was attended by Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma, Liberation War Affairs and Disaster Affairs Adviser Faruk-e-Azam, Food and Land Adviser Ali Imam Majumder, Principal Secretary to the Chief Adviser M Siraz Uddin Miah and officials concerned. The officials said there are three types of challenges in introducing virtual learning in schools in…
Iran officially suspended its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog on Wednesday, a move the United States described as “unacceptable”. It came after last month’s 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel, which saw unprecedented Israeli and US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and sharply escalated tensions between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency. On June 25, a day after a ceasefire took hold, Iranian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to suspend cooperation with the Vienna-based IAEA. State media confirmed on Wednesday that the legislation had now taken effect. The law aims to “ensure full support for the inherent rights of the…
– A bilateral meeting was held in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, between Bangladesh Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain and Moroccan Minister of National Education, Preschool, and Sports Mohammed Saad Berrada on Wednesday. At the onset of the meeting, Minister Mohammed Saad Berrada highlighted Morocco’s integrated education and sports framework, according to a message received here. He made special mention of Morocco’s “Study and Sports” model, which plays a significant role in reducing school dropout rates among students. He also emphasised the country’s policy and institutional initiatives to expand access to preschool education. Adviser Asif Mahmud expressed…
(BSS/AFP) – Firefighters in Spain have said they found two bodies after a blaze in the northeast of the country, which is in the midst of a brutal heatwave. The heatwave across Europe this week broke high temperature records, caused the closure of schools and increased the risk of fire. Authorities in Spain’s Catalonia region on Tuesday confined about 14,000 people to their homes due to two wildfires that broke out almost simultaneously in the province of Lerida. In one of the blazes, near the city of Cosco, “two people were found lifeless by firefighters”, the fire and emergency service…
(BSS/AFP) – Venezuela’s government-aligned National Assembly declared UN rights chief Volker Turk “persona non grata” on Tuesday, after a recent report by his office described a continued deteriorating rights situation in the country. Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, last week denounced “arbitrary detentions, violations of due process and enforced disappearances” over the past year by President Nicolas Maduro’s government. The Venezuelan attorney general’s office called Turk’s report an “aggression.” National Assembly speaker Jorge Rodriguez, a close Maduro ally, called for the government to end any involvement with Turk’s office. “There will be time to come back…
(BSS/AFP) – The deadly May collision of a Mexican Navy vessel with the Brooklyn Bridge resulted in over half a million dollars in damages to the sailing ship, US investigators said, without pinpointing a cause. A preliminary report by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released Monday detailed the minute-by-minute movements of the Cuauhtemoc on May 17, when the training ship departed Manhattan on its way to Iceland. After moving astern away from its docking location at Pier 17, a pilot on board the vessel directed it to go forward, the report said. However, the ship began moving backwards…
(BSS) – Hasnat Abdullah, a key coordinator of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, said extensive state pressure and repression even couldn’t force them to dialogue as the movement leaders were resolute in point of no return cherishing the stance of no dialogue wading martyrs’ blood during July uprising. “We were steadfast in point of no return as we were in unwavering determination that we won’t join any reconciliatory dialogue stepping in martyrs’ blood during July uprising,” he said. Hasnat, now the chief organizer of the southern region of the National Citizens’ Party (NCP), was targeted by state forces and was abducted,…
The quota reform movement has swayed the students across the country on the July 2 last year as they perceived that reinstating of quota in government jobs by a court order is apparently a discrimination for meritorious students, hinting a growing wave of resistance. On the second day of the student-led demonstration, demanding the reinstatement of the 2018 circular abolishing quotas in first- and second-class public service recruitment, the capital’s Shahbagh intersection once again turned into an epicenter of mass protest as demonstrators occupied the area. The second day of the last year’s July uprising unfolded with a massive leap…
