New traditions but same old hospitality in modern Islamabad
[The Daily Star] - 02/28/2025
Since its foundation in the 1960s, Pakistan’s capital Islamabad has always been a well-planned city, with separate zones for administration, educational and commercial institutions and residential areas –unlike most major cities in the Indian sub-continent.
In Bangla newspapers
Manik Miah Avenue at the heart of Dhaka is abuzz with anticipation as the National Citizen Party (NCP), led by the (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
Ron Draper, who was the oldest living Test cricketer, has died in Gqeberha at the age of 98 years and 63 days, his (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
Dhaka police detectives have arrested Md Shafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bhanga Police Station in (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
A driver was killed when a truck hit another stationary truck from behind on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Louhajong, (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
A journalist received a death threat allegedly from some sand extractors in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila early (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
Nations cheered a last-gasp deal to map out nature funding to 2030 Thursday, breaking a deadlock at UN talks seen as (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
Nahid reads out National Citizen Party declaration
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
Akhter Hossen, a law graduate from Dhaka University, was one of the key organisers of the anti-discrimination (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
With the country at a crossroads, many citizens, particularly those from marginalised communities, are looking to (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
A suicide attack at an Islamic religious school in Pakistan known as the "University of Jihad" -- where (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
Talks resume in Cairo Friday on a second phase of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire that mediators hope will bring a lasting (…)
[The Daily Star] - 28/02/2025
