Just weeks after thousands of Rohingya refugees lost their homes to Cyclone Mocha, they face another blow as funding shortages force the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to cut food vouchers in Cox’s Bazar to just US$ 8, or less than 9 cents p…
A Bangladesh opposition stalwart was arrested yesterday, in Rajshahi city, some 256 km west of the capital Dhaka, for “threatening to kill” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a speech, on May 19.Rafiqul Alam, Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan …
The Newar community in the country including in the Kathmandu Valley celebrated the Sithi Nakha festival today by worshipping the water sources such as well, traditional water spouts, springs, ponds and taps. Prior to the worshiping, such water source…
What is beauty? What do we need – inner or outer beauty? What is its definition? Noted Bhutanese filmmaker Khyentse Norbu, also known as Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rimpoche, has spoken about this issue in his new film, ‘Dakini’. He is in Nepal for the …
Vice President Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav has said he would take initiative to complete the construction of the National Martyrs Memorial. The Memorial is under construction at Yagyadol (Jagdol) community forest area located at Gorkarneshwor municipality-…
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, has said all those accused and suspected in the fake Bhutanese refugee scandal will be investigated. Receiving a memorandum by a delegation of the CPN (UML)-aligned Youth Asso…
Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Rekha Sharma, has said that the republic has offered us such significant achievements which were once unimaginable for us. In her address during an inauguration of a photo exhibition themed “Our …
An aged citizen was shot dead at Karuniya of Dewahi Gonahi municipality-1 in Rautahat. The District Police Office, Rautahat identified the victim as Sheikh Taiyab, 70.He was reportedly at home till 12:00 midnight Wednesday. Police found his body some …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here today for home after wrapping up her three-day official visit to Qatar.A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage members, departed Hamad International Airport in Doha at 10.25pm…
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