Monthly Archives

November 2023

We want all parties will join polls: EC Ahsan Habib

Election Commissioner (Retd) Brig Gen Md Ahsan Habib Khan today said the Election Commission expects the participation of all registered political parties in the 12th national election slated for January 7 next year. "We and people of…

Violence Against Women IFIC hosts seminar

IFIC Bank recently hosted a day-long seminar on Raising Awareness to Eliminate Violence Against Women in Bangladesh. This seminar, conducted in collaboration with the Faculty of Law at Dhaka University, coincided with the observance of…

Jaya Ahsan’s Iranian film debut makes waves at IFFI

Jaya Ahsan's first Iranian film "Fereshta" received major accolades from audiences following its screening at the 54th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. The Iran-Bangladesh joint production,…

Russia must rival Western AI: Putin

President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that the West had a "dangerous" monopoly over artificial intelligence and Russia needed to rival "biased" Western chatbots with its own technology. The race to develop AI has heated up since the…

Gazans fill streets, head home as truce begins

With children and pets in their arms and their belongings loaded onto donkey carts or car roofs , thousands of displaced Gazans headed home yesterday as a four-day Israel-Hamas truce began. The din of war was replaced by the horns of…

Dhaka urges Delhi to close Teesta-water sharing deal

Dhaka requested New Delhi to expedite the process of signing the Teesta River water deal and other treaties concerning shared rivers during the Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) yesterday. Previously, in 2011, Bangladesh and India…

Climate Action: UK to work closely with Bangladesh

The UK and Bangladesh will continue to work closely to turn climate commitments into action and have common objectives for COP28, said British Deputy High Commissioner and Development Director, Matt Cannell. "It is vital that COP28 keeps…

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