Dhaka North and South City Corporations have adopted a plan to remove the waste of sacrificial animals within 12 hours and about 20,267 cleaning workers were kept ready for this. The Eid leaves of the waste management department employees of the two city corporations have been canceled to remove the waste of sacrificial animals. The hotline was opened for waste removal within the stipulated time, and for this, the two city authorities have provided about 1.39 million plastic, poly bags and bio-degradable bags. City corporation officials said that the administrators of the two cities will inaugurate the formal waste removal…
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BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia today exchanged Eid greetings with the party’s standing committee members as they met her at her Feroza residence in Gulshan in the late evening today. After coming out from Firoza, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, “This is a moment of joy for us today. Our leader around whom we have been doing politics for a long time and BNP has achieved a lot of success under her leadership. When we talk to the leader who has brought qualitative change in Bangladeshi politics, we naturally feel newly inspired.” “She always expresses her unwavering…
An aid ship with 12 activists on board, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, has reached the Egyptian coast and is nearing the besieged Palestinian territory, organisers said on Saturday. The Madleen, part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, left Sicily last week with a cargo of relief supplies “to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza”. “We are now sailing off the Egyptian coast,” German human rights activist Yasemin Acar told AFP. “We are all good,” she added. In a statement from London on Saturday, the International Committee for Breaking the Siege of Gaza — a member organisation of the flotilla coalition…
LGRD and Co-operatives Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain today said not animal, but pride, jealousy, and injustice should be sacrificed. “Let sacrifice be a new expression of social change,” he said at his verified Facebook page today. Asif, also Adviser of Sports Ministry, said, “Sacrifice of animal is our religious duty, but standing by people is a human duty. Let’s not let anyone be deprived of the joy of Eid, let’s build a beautiful society with equality and cooperation.”
The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, was celebrated today across the country with due solemnity, religious fervor and zeal. Eid-ul-Azha is celebrated on the 10th day of Zilhajj, the final month of the Hijri calendar, commemorating the event that took place around 4,500 years ago when Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) offered to sacrifice his beloved son Hazrat Ismail (AS) who willingly submitted to his father’s will in devotion to Allah. But the Almighty Allah, in His benign mercy, spared Hazrat Ismail (AS) and instead sent a ram to be sacrificed. To commemorate this historic event, the…
The main Eid Jamaat was held at the Jatiya Eidgah Maidan at 7.30 am with the arrangement of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC). Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, Chief Justice, judges of the Supreme Court and High Court divisions, members of the Council of Advisers, leaders of various political parties, senior government officials, and diplomats of various Muslim countries stationed in Dhaka, along with thousands of Muslim devotees offered prayers at the main Eid jamaat (congregation). Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Khatib Maulana Mufti Mohammad Abdul Malek conducted the prayers. Special munajat was offered seeking divine blessings for peace and…
(BSS/AFP) – Elon Musk is “very welcome” in Europe, a spokesperson for the European Commission quipped Friday, following the tech billionaire’s spectacular public falling-out with US President Donald Trump. The Trump-Musk political marriage blew up on Thursday as the president declared himself “very disappointed” in criticisms from his former aide and top donor — before the pair hurled insults at each other on social media. At the commission’s daily briefing, spokesperson Paula Pinho was asked whether Musk had reached out to the European Union with a view to relocating his businesses, or setting up new ones. “He’s very welcome,” she…
(BSS/AFP) – The US trade deficit more than halved in April, government data showed Thursday, pulling back from a record on a plunge in imports as President Donald Trump’s global tariffs kicked in. While the White House has framed the tariffs as a means to address perceived trade imbalances, it is unclear if the narrowing is sustainable as analysts believe businesses had merely paused further imports while waiting for countries to strike deals. The world’s biggest economy logged a trade gap of $61.6 billion in the same month that Trump unveiled 10 percent levies on almost all trading partners. This…
(BSS/AFP) – Asian markets stuttered Friday as optimism from “very positive” talks between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping was wiped out by the stunning public row between the US leader and Elon Musk. The much-anticipated discussions between the heads of the world’s biggest economies fuelled hopes for an easing of tensions following the US leader’s “Liberation Day” global tariff blitz that targeted Beijing particularly hard. However, investors remained wary after an extraordinary social media row between Trump and billionaire former aide Musk that saw the two trade insults and threats, and sent Wall Street into the red. Wall Street’s…
EU countries have backed a plan to allow airlines to incur longer flight delays before having to compensate passengers — a contested move intended to be offset by several new passenger rights. At present, passengers in Europe have a right to between 250 and 600 euros ($285-685) in compensation, depending on flight distance, for delays of three hours or more. But airlines complain that leaves them a hefty bill, and often leads them to cancel flights rather than run them with a long delay, due to knock-on effects on flight schedules. A majority of EU states agreed late Thursday to…
