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MNA Editorial Desk: A red carpet was rolled out as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday on a three-day official visit. President Abdul Hamid received the Palestinian leader near the VVIP tarmac of Hazarat Shahjalal International Airport amid a 21-gun salute, while a tiny tot presented him a bouquet. The Palestinian president was taken to Hotel Le Meridien Dhaka on the Airport Road through a ceremonial motorcade where he will be staying during the visit. Palestinian foreign minister Reyad Al Malki, chief justice of Palestine and the religious affairs minister Mahmoud al-Habbas, the Palestinian Authority spokesman and ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Over a thousand music lovers are enjoying the shows every evening at the Jazz & Blues Festival that began on Sunday. The festival has been organized by Blues Commutations with the aim to promote western classical jazz and blues in the country. The festival commenced with the performance of local singer Armeen Musa who entertained the audience covering some famous and romantic blues such as Hoagy Carmichael’s The Nearness of You and Simply Red’s Holding Back the Years. British drummer and pianist Gary Husband then took the stage and played notations of famous jazz music ...

MNA National Desk: Fright returns to people as a strong earthquake was felt in capital city of Dhaka and others parts of the country at about 3pm. US Geological Survey says that the earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale but Indian Met Department said the intensity was 5.7. The epicentre was at Tripura’s Ambassa, 170 kilometres northeast of Dhaka and originated at a depth of 36 kilometres. The region experienced an devastating earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale in the year of 1897. Over 1,600 people had died in that earthquake specially in the undivided Assam province and ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Cost of living increased by 6.47 per cent while prices of commodities and services by 5.81 per cent in the capital in the just concluded year, reported news agency. Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) revealed this information in a study report published on Sunday. According to CAB statistics, cost of living had increased by 6.38 per cent in 2015, which was 0.09 per cent more than the rise in 2016. Except a few items, commodity prices remained stable, to a large extent, in 2016 compared to the previous year’s, said the CAB report. The CAB study report ...

MNA Business Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated the month-long Dhaka international trade fair (DITF) announcing the ‘leather’ as the ‘product of the year’ for 2017, reported news agency. Asking all concerned to take necessary steps to provide necessary cooperation and incentives to the leather sector the prime minister said, the government wants to boost up the rising leather sector to explore it’s all potentials. Leather export has been increased by about 71 times over the last four decades and Bangladesh produces leather goods for top global brands, she said. Urging the business persons and exporters to remain ...

(JnU Correspondent) MNA National Desk: Jagannath University held a competition event titled ‘Regional Zoology Olympiad 2016’ of Dhaka ‘B’ region on Tuesday. Zoology Department of Jagannath University (JnU) in collaboration with Zoological Society of Bangladesh (ZSB) arranged the event on the campus at around 11:00am on October 25, 2016 with the Department’s Chairperson Prof. Dr. Md. Saiful Islam in the chair. About 100 students from the 11 institutions of the Dhaka ‘B’ region took part in the competition. JnU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof. Dr. Mijanur Rahman was present as Chief Guest while Dhaka University’s Zoology Department Prof. Dr. Gulsan Ara Latifa ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Police have killed a suspected militant and three women have injured during a raid in Dhaka’s Azimpur. Five police officers were also injured in gunfight on Saturday evening. The injured suspects and policemen were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. According to RAB sources, the law enforcers locked into a gunfight after conducting a raid in a militant den near BDR-2 gate area of city’s Azimpur at around 7.45pm on Saturday. Acting DMP Commissioner Shahabuddin Qureshi told the media at the police barricade near the house that the deceased suspect could not be recognized immediately. Deputy Commissioner ...

MNA National Desk: The Jagannath University (JnU) will get a new campus at Dhaka’s Keraniganj at the outer edge of the capital. “We are really happy as the Cabinet has decided to do so,” Nurul Islam Nahid told a media briefing on Monday. The Education Minister also said that the new campus will be constructed at the site in Keraniganj, where the government has already cleared a project to build a 10-storey building as a residential hall for students. The JnU students protesting for construction of residential halls for them on the empty space of recently abandoned Dhaka Central Jail ...

MNA Editorial Desk: John Kerry, US secretary of state, is scheduled to visit in Dhaka next Monday to discuss bilateral issues, especially America’s cooperation in addressing militancy in Bangladesh. During his first-ever visit to the country, the top US diplomat is expected to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and foreign minister AS Mahmood Ali, a high-level source in the government confirmed. John Kerry may also meet professional groups, representatives of the civil society and a delegation of the media. According to the schedule, John Kerry will be coming to Dhaka from Geneva only for a day before he moves to ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Nine terrorists have been killed in an operation of law enforcement agencies at Kalyanpur of Dhaka city. The law enforcers conducted an operation at the hideout of the terrorists, at a building named ‘Jahaz Building’ on the road 5 near the Kalyanpur Bus stand. Police confirmed that, nine terrorists were killed in the operation. The operation was conducted from 5:51am to 6:51am in the morning though the process started around 12am of last night. It was reported that, few members of the law enforcement agencies were injured during this operation. The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Shahidul ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Law enforcement agencies have found the source of the arms used in the recent militant attacks in Dhaka’s Holey Artisan Bakery and Sholakia, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque said. He told this in a program held at Police Staff College in Mirpur area in Dhaka on Monday. He said that, “The arms used in the attacks were not very modern. We have found the source from where the attackers got them (arms). The masterminds of the attacks have been identified and they are under surveillance.” However, law enforcement agencies were trying to combat militancy ...

MNA Editorial Desk: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has released a list of 260 people missing from numerous parts of Bangladesh in present times. The government had been collecting information on youths reported missing for some time. However, the five gunmen who attacked an upscale cafe in Dhaka on July 1 and killed 20 hostages had been missing for several months, according to their families. One of the Sholakia attackers had also been missing for the past four months. Law enforcement agencies had exposed the names of 10 other missing youths. Apart from that list, fresh information is still reaching ...

MNA Business Desk: The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered 154 tanneries at Dhaka’s Hazaribagh to pay Tk. 10,000 per day as compensation for polluting the environment until they shift to Savar. The court also ordered to donate fifty percent of the fined money to the National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh. A four-member bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order upon a petition filed by the Tannery Owners Association and Bangladesh Leather, Leather Goods and Footwear Exporters’ Association. Bangladesh government tried repeatedly to relocate the tanners from the area, but failed. The latest attempt was a March ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has claimed that the law enforcement agency (Police) and his ministry had prior information of the Gulshan and Sholakia attacks. Kamal at the time of talking at a conversation in Dhaka on Sunday said, “The government had information that something might happen in Gulshan and had made all kinds of preparations for it. We know who is behind this and who supported them.” the minister shared this at Krishibid auditorium. Kamal later claimed that as soon as the Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner got the info of gunfire at Holey Artisan Bakery on ...

MNA Editorial Desk: A huge number of unfit motor vehicles are plying on the city roads of Dhaka in violation of set laws and posing threat to commuters’ safety, besides contributing to traffic congestion and environmental hazards. The suffering public is only too aware of the total lawlessness in the transport sector. The alarming number of vehicles on the road without fitness is an indication of the appalling state of affairs. The road communication system is proceeding in a totally uncontrolled and undisciplined manner. It seems as if there is no one in charge of the sector. Neither the communications ...

MNA Business Desk: As news agency reports, the government contracted $275 million loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for improving and expanding water supply system in Dhaka in 17 July. Mohammad Mejbahuddin, Senior Secretary, Economic Relations Division (ERD), and Kazuhiko Higuchi, Country Director, Bangladesh Resident Mission of ADB, signed the agreement on behalf of Bangladesh and ADB respectively at a ceremony at ERD, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. Sewerage Authority (DWASA) and Dhaka Water Supply will implement $408 million project. Of the amount, ADB will provide $275 million from its general capital resources under a soft-term loan agreement. “Dhaka city is ...

MNA National Desk: Nisha Desai Biswal, the US point person for South Asia, has visited Dhaka terror attack site, the Gushan cafe that terrorists stormed on July 1 and killed 20 people including nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian and an American citizen of Bangladesh origin. The Islamic State (IS) has supposedly demanded responsibility for the occurrence at Holey Artisan Bakery, in Gulshan diplomatic zone, which is visited by foreigners. The US assistant secretary of State remained there for around 20 minutes on Monday. She will also leave on Monday, finishing her two-day visit, for Sri Lanka after meeting Prime ...

MNA Editorial Desk: US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal has arrived in Dhaka on Sunday morning. She will make a two-day visit to talk about Bangladesh’s security situation with the government following the Gulshan and Sholakia terror attacks. Biswal is likely to have meetings with Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque at state guesthouse Padma. She will later meet with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday. Through her visit, Biswal is expected to offer US support for an inquiry into the July 1 attack on the ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Dhaka city drainage system has become a curse. People of the city, instead of enjoying cooler weather and heavy rain, now had to deal with making their ways through flood and sewage water before Eid. Parts of the city went under water. In the densely populated city, woes of people knew no bounds. In 1954, 1956, 1988, 1998 devastating floods occurred submerging 70 percent or more of the country. Along with the country most of the Dhaka city except pockets of high spots went under various depths of water. There was flood water in old city, eastern ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Reportedly, Mumbai cops begin investigation against Zakir Naik. Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra Chief Minister, has ordered the Mumbai Police officials to open an investigation against Islamic preacher Zakir Naik. The investigation will take a probe into his public documents, according to a news report. The Maharashtra government has also ordered the law enforcement officials to check out all the recordings of Zakir Naik’s speeches. Mumbai Police confirmed that Zakir Naik’s public documents, videos and social media posts are being examined. The decision by Maharashtra government came a day after Bangladesh asked India to examine the speeches of Naik ...

MNA National Desk: A massive fire has broken out at a 14-storey building at Badda in Dhaka. The fire service said the fire at the ‘BTI Premier Plaza’, started on Wednesday and took 26 fire-fighting units more than three hours to tame it. Ataur Rahman, duty officer of the Fire Service and Civil Defense (FSCD) control room, ensured that the fire exploded at the building at about 3:00am. The building has shops from the ground floor up to third floor, while the rest is housingflats. No fatalities have been reported. Some residents of the building have been taken to local ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Dhaka mayors will now get the rank and status of a minister. Mayors of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) have been given full ministerial status. And the mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation has been given the status of deputy minister. The cabinet division issued a gazette notification yesterday in this regard, said Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam. “The status of mayors for the other city corporations remains unchanged,” he said The government took the decision in this regard on Tuesday, said a gazette notification issued by the Cabinet Division. Dhaka North ...

The number of people suffering feral dog bites across the country increased in recent times with a rising dog population on the streets of Dhaka in the absence of culling and sterilization. At least 42 per cent of dog bite victims were children, mostly boys under 15. Physicians at the IDH (Infectious Disease Hospital) said that, attacks by stray dogs increased in recent times. The number of people visiting hospital after suffering dog bites also increased, they said. At least 200 dog bite victims from the capital and the nearby areas took treatment each day, shows the records of the ...