Ashoura is marked on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, by all Muslims.
It marks the day Nuh (Noah) left the Ark and the day Musa (Moses) was saved from the Pharaoh of Egypt by God.
The Prophet Muhammad used to fast on Ashoura in Mecca, where it became a common tradition for the early Muslims. Ashoura th...
Activists pull down statue of Canada’s 1st Prime Minister MacDonald
Activists in Montreal have pulled down a statue of Canada's first prime minister Sir John A MacDonald, who was linked to cruel policies that killed many indigenous people in the late 19th Century.
Video captured the moment the statue's head flew off and bounced on the pavement nearby. Quebec's head of government condemned it as "unacceptable". "Destroying parts of our history is not the solution," said François Legault.BD seeks UK’s GSP facility untill 2030
Bangladesh has sought an extension of the UK’s GSP facility to Bangladeshi products until 2030 to boost trade and also its greater support for a faster post-pandemic SDGs recovery.
“We want post-Brexit UK to continue its GSP, allowing zero-tariff access of Bangladeshi products to its markets until 2030, greater flexibility and concessions in Bangladesh’s post-LDC graduation threshold … in the post-Covid global economic downturn,” Bangladesh High Commissioner to UK Saida Muna Tasneem said. She also sought higher climate financing by the UK for moving towards Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s low-carbon climate-resilient development strategies while addressing the UK parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Gr...International Youth Day (IYD) 2020 observed
On the occasion of International Youth Day (IYD), recently JAAGO Foundation hosted a day-long series of webinars on Youth in Leadership, in Innovation, in Policy Engagement, in Crisis Management, in Entrepreneurship and in Art & Culture.
6 different sessions were organized to promote youth empowerment in the development of Bangladesh. Day-long event was attended by Mr. Nahim Razzaq, Member of Parliament (MP), Sonia Bashir Kabir, Founder, SBK Foundation; Mr.Mominul Islam, Managing Director & CEO IPDC Finance; Farah Kabir, Country Director, Actionaid Bangladesh; Mr. Hussain Elius, Cofounder of Pathao, Ayman Sadiq, Founder & CEO, Robi 10 Minute School and Mr. Korvi Rakshand, Founder & Executive Director- JAAGO Foundation...EUJF organizes green journalism workshop
Along with the theme of “Citizen Journalism for Sustainability and Development”, Eastern University Journalist Forum (EUJF) organized an online workshop on “Green Journalism” jointly with environmental web portal bdenvironment.com. This exclusive workshop was held on 28 August (Friday).
In the workshop, Iftekhar Mahmud, Special Correspondent of Prothom Alo, Sheikh Rokon, Secretary General of
Riverine People attended as resource person and the program has hosted by Md. Ashrafu...
Pressuring Bangladesh to do more will not help the Rohingya
What the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh need is not more aid, but a way to return home to Myanmar safely, writes Nasir Uddin .
