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In this exclusive interview with VOA Bangla,  Raihan Ahmed talks about his works on child welfare. His research interest involves child welfare, program monitoring, performance outcome, and contract management.  [Read more]

AFP, Dakar Muslim presidents, kings and other senior leaders held closed talks at a summit yesterday to hammer out a new charter for the world’s biggest Islamic group, officials said. Organisation of the Islamic Conference leaders say a new charter is necessary to modernise and reform the group of 57 nations concentrated in Asia, Africa [...]

UNB, DakarChief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday called for using the vast resources of the Muslim countries to assist the Muslim Ummah and satisfy its various needs.He made the call while addressing the general discussion of the 11th summit of the Islamic conference on the second and concluding day at the King Fahd Complex.Dr Ahmed [...]

Sports ReporterSouth Africa whitewashed Bangladesh 3-0 in the three-match ODI series when the Proteas defeated the Tigers by seven wickets in the third and last ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Friday.Bangladesh tasted nine-wicket defeat by South Africa in the first ODI in Chittagong on March 9 and then the Tigers conceded [...]

Barisal CorrespondentsUpazila Nirbahi Officer of Nalchhiti under Jhalakati district was assaulted and Land Revenue Office was ransacked by an angry mob following torture of a local Freedom Fighter and a journalist on Friday morning.Police rescued the UNO and the injured freedom fighter from the local land revenue office after two hours.Ranjit Kumar Das, Additional Deputy [...]

UNB, DhakaCondition of ailing Awami League general secretary Abdul Jalil, now undergoing treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, was learnt to have deteriorated.DR Baren Chakravorti said the doctors of the Mount Elizabeth Hospital would observe Jalil for another three months before starting his kidney dialysis.Dr Chakravorti, who recently visited Singapore, said he had talks [...]

Staff ReporterThe World Bank has dropped a broad hint that it would either abandon or influence the Government to “reform” the Female Secondary School Stipend Programme (FSSSP), an official project financed by it, which earned global acclaim for Bangladesh due to its success to trigger higher girls’ enrollment in school than that of other third [...]

Staff ReporterThousands of Muslims demonstrated on the city roads yesterday protesting against the government move to give equal rights to women in inheritance. Witnesses said about ten thousand Muslims participate in the protest rally after the Juma prayers at the Baitul Mukaram National Mosque. They brought out procession, which was joined by others from different [...]

Barisal CorrespondentEleven people, including the driver of a Nasimon (locally assembled tempo) were killed and twelve other passengers were injured on Friday morning after the tempo carrying members of a bridal party was overrun by a rice-laden truck on the Barisal-Dhaka Highway.Amirurrazam, officer in charge of Gournadi Police Station said the wedding ceremony of Ramen [...]