Worried DU students leaving residential halls after clashes
Worried students are leaving Dhaka University’s residential halls after clashes between the quota reform protesters and the Bangladesh Chhatra League. According to the students, the leaders and activists of the Chhatra League harassed and beat many students on Monday night for taking part in the movement, triggering panic among the students of the university’s halls of residence. Many students from nearly all dormitories, including Bijoy Ekattor Hall, Ruqayyah Hall, Kabi Jasimuddin Hall and Surja Sen Hall, have been leaving the campus since early on Tuesday. They questioned them about their involvement in the quota movement and checked their Facebook accounts. Announcements were made by loudspeakers at several halls instructing the students not to participate in the quota movement.
Source:bd News24
July 16, 2024 09:37 UTC
Gas Crisis To Last Another Week
Gas Crisis To Last Another WeekThe gas crisis, ongoing for nearly two months because of damage to the floating LNG terminal during Cyclone Remal, may last another week, said the State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid. A memorandum of understanding, or MoU, was signed between Bangladesh Coal Power Generation Company Limited and PT Pertamina Power at the InterContinental, Dhaka hotel, on Monday. After the event, he said, “We were hopeful that the gas issue would be resolved by the 16th of July.”“The FSRU was damaged in the storm. This is a Summit FSRU.”“Another issue with the pipeline has surfaced. We are optimistic that we will move towards uninterrupted gas supply within another week,”he added.
Source:Energy Bangla
July 16, 2024 09:26 UTC
Federal judge dismisses Trump classified documents case over concerns with prosecutor's appointment
Corsicana, TX (75110)TodayA mix of clouds and sun early followed by cloudy skies this afternoon. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph..TonightRain showers early then thundershowers overnight. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%.
Source:Daily Sun
July 16, 2024 03:10 UTC
Record number of UK Cabinet ministers defeated in general election
LONDON, July 5, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - A record number of Cabinet ministers lost their seats on Friday in Britain's general election, leaving only a couple of obvious contenders for the party leadership if Rishi Sunak resigns. A former defence secretary, she tried twice to become Tory leader, and was tipped to try again after Thursday's election, with Sunak expected to stand down. Other Tory casualties included Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, Transport and Science Secretary Michelle Donelan. "I think that we have seen in this election an astonishing ill-discipline within the party", said former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland, after losing his seat. "What is crystal clear to me tonight -- it is not so much that Labour won but that the Conservatives lost," he added.
Source:Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
July 05, 2024 17:57 UTC
6 killed, 28 injured in Dinajpur road accident
DINAJPUR, July 5, 2024 (BSS)- Six people, including a child, were killed and 28 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Panchbari Bazar Chackrampur area under Dinajpur Sadar upazila in the district early today. Kotwali police station officer-in-charge (OC) Farid Hossain confirmed the matter. The incident occurred when a Ranisankail-bound bus of Nabil Paribahan from Dhaka and a mango-laden truck from Dinajpur rammed into each other on Dinajpur-Phulbari Highway in front of the Ariyan Petro pump near Panchbari Bazaar Chakrampur area around 6.30am today, leaving the truck driver and helper of the bus dead on the spot and four others succumbed to their injuries while being taken to the hospital, said Farid Hossain. The others injured were admitted to the local M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital. The vehicular movement resumed after the wrecked bus was removed from the road, he said, adding that they were trying to ascertain the identities of the deceased.
Source:Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
July 05, 2024 13:18 UTC
India's World Cup winners return to PM Modi praise, victory parade
NEW DELHI, July 4, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - India's T20 World Cup winners returned home to a heroes' welcome Thursday, greeted by huge crowds of euphoric fans and praised by a grinning Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a private reception. Frenzied crowds shouted "India, India" after the team landed at Delhi airport from the Caribbean, having been delayed for days by Hurricane Beryl. They took a victory lap in front of thousands more fans at Wankhede Stadium, the site of India's last World Cup win for the 50-over edition of the tournament in 2011. "This is surreal, watching my team with the World Cup," emotional fan Rohit Khanna told AFP before the team landed. "It's a dream for me to witness India return home from a World Cup," said a shirtless fan with a Kohli tattoo on his chest.
Source:Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
July 04, 2024 16:39 UTC
BNP spreads misleading info, fails to understand regional connectivity: Hasan
DHAKA, July 4, 2024 (BSS) – Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said BNP is spreading misleading information over Bangladesh-India Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on connectivity as they are unable to understand the issue of regional connectivity. “We are working to expand the regional connectivity to other countries in the South Asia,” the foreign minister said. Criticizing BNP leaders’ misleading remarks over Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent visit to India, Hasan said their statements have failed to draw public attention. About Bangladesh foreign policy, Hasan said Bangabandhu’s worthy daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is running the country following Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s foreign policy of ‘Friendship to all, malice to none’. Highlighting the country’s development and progress, the foreign minister said many countries are now investing in Bangladesh witnessing the country’s unprecedented development.
Source:Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
July 04, 2024 13:05 UTC
Two students drown in Rangamati floodwaters
Two students have drowned in the floodwaters of Rangamati’s Baghaichhari Upazila. The body of one of the flood victims was recovered from the Narikel Bagan near Baghaichhari Municipality around 5:30am on Thursday, reports bdnews24.com. Another body was pulled out from Bongoltali Union’s Balukhali village in Baghaichhari Upazila on Wednesday afternoon. He drowned due to the sudden onrush of the floodwaters,” said Mithel. Earlier, on Wednesday afternoon, Sohamoni Chakma drowned in the floodwaters in Balukhali village.
Source:bd News24
July 04, 2024 12:18 UTC
China weather agency says extreme summer heat to persist
BEIJING, July 4, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - China's weather agency expects extreme heat to persist across the country this summer as climate change pushes global temperatures higher, state media reported Thursday. The Asian nation is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases that scientists say cause global warming and make extreme weather more frequent and intense. Swathes of northern China have already been baked by heat waves this summer, while unseasonably torrential rains have triggered deadly floods and landslides across much of the south. "Against the climatic backdrop of global warming, average temperatures will rise and the occurrence of high-temperature weather will tend to be frequent," the centre said, according to CCTV. Heat records at 20 local weather stations broke historical records, the report added.
Source:Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
July 04, 2024 10:28 UTC
China warns of hotter, longer heatwaves as climate change intensifies
REUTERSCracks run through the bed of Jinxiuchuan reservoir amid an orange alert for a heatwave in the drought-hit region, in Jinan, Shandong province, China, June 19, 2024. REUTERSChina is facing hotter and longer heatwaves and more frequent and unpredictable heavy rain as a result of climate change, the weather bureau warned on Thursday, as the world's second biggest economy braces for another scorching summer. "China is a region that is sensitive to global climate change, a region where the impact will be significant," said Yuan Jiashuang, vice-director of the CMA's National Climate Centre, at a briefing. The weather bureau said on Thursday that it expects temperatures in most areas across China to be relatively high over the next few months, signalling a second consecutive summer of extreme heat. The weather bureau also said that two typhoons could make landfall in mainland China in July.
Source:bd News24
July 04, 2024 08:23 UTC
Labour tipped for historic win as UK voters go to the polls
Labour tipped for historic win as UK voters go to the pollsLONDON, July 4, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Britain voted Thursday in a general election widely expected to hand the opposition Labour party a landslide win and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule. That would almost certainly put Labour leader Keir Starmer, 61, in Downing Street, as leader of the largest party in parliament. Centre-left Labour is projected to win its first general election since 2005 by historic proportions, with a flurry of election-eve polls all forecasting its biggest-ever victory. But Starmer was taking nothing for granted as he urged voters not to stay at home. The Lib Dems were tipped to scoop dozens of seats -- up from their current tally of 15 -- while Nigel Farage's anti-immigrant Reform UK party was set to win a handful.
Source:Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
July 04, 2024 07:13 UTC
Not politics, not interest rates: India's surging economy at risk from water
Bengaluru, India's tech hub of 14 million people, reeled under a water shortage this year and had to rely on tanker deliveries. That is adding urgency to public and private-sector efforts to conserve the resource, find ways to recycle waste water and reduce the country’s over-reliance on the annual monsoon, especially in the agricultural sector. Some industries are investing in waste water recycling and rain harvesting to cut their dependence on fresh water. Between 2021 and 2026, it plans to invest about $36 billion to ensure equitable water distribution, reuse of waste water and mapping of water bodies, the government has said. If we save just 10% of water used in agriculture, it will take care of the water problems of all the Indian cities."
Source:bd News24
July 04, 2024 05:26 UTC
Nepal PM loses majority after coalition partner quits
KATHMANDU, July 3, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Embattled Nepali Prime Minister PushpaKamal Dahal lost his government's majority Wednesday after his key coalitionpartner withdrew support, triggering fresh political uncertainty in Kathmandu'svolatile parliament. The Maoists have played a key role in Nepal's politics for more than 20years, after waging a decade-long insurgency against government forces thatclaimed more than 16,000 lives. The civil war ended in a 2006 peace deal, which saw rebel leader Dahalbecome Nepal's first post-war prime minister. The three main parties -- the Maoists, CPN-UML, and the NC -- have sincemonopolised politics, forming varying brittle coalitions with one another. Nepal, a Himalayan nation of 30 million people, is sandwiched betweenpowerful neighbours India and China -- with both New Delhi and Beijingcampaigning for influence.
Source:Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
July 03, 2024 23:27 UTC
Daily Horoscope for July 03, 2024
General Daily Insight for July 03, 2024 Emotion comes to the forefront. Wait a moment and decide if what you’re saying will actually get your message across. Taurus April 20 – May 20 You might be worried about a decision that you were once sure of. Scorpio October 23 – November 21 Breaking free from the current expectations of others can minimize possible chaos. Sagittarius November 22 – December 21 You and someone else might be lifting each other up while the other is down.
Source:Daily Sun
July 03, 2024 23:19 UTC