UNB The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices’ most significant case on the hot-button issue in nearly a quarter-century. One of this election-year term’s biggest cases is being argued Wednesday before a court altered by the death of…
UNB A bill titled ‘Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation Bill, 2016’ was passed in Parliament on Sunday, aiming to scrap the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation Ordinance, 1976 promulgated during the military regime. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid moved the Bill in the House, which was passed by voice vote. The Ordinance,…
BSS Terra, a mobile-first international payment networking company, is planning to launch its operation in Bangladesh to facilitate cross-border mobile to mobile money transfer. The India-based company is now awaiting necessary approval from Bangladesh Bank (BB) for formal launching of its operation here, the local representative of this company told BSS. Founder and Chief Executive…
BSS Syria’s fragile ceasefire entered its second day on Sunday, with battlezones across the war-scarred country largely quiet for the first time in five years despite some sporadic breaches. The temporary truce, brokered by Washington and Moscow, is seen as a crucial step towards ending a conflict that has claimed 270,000 lives and displaced more…
BSS Apple and the US government are squaring off in an epic legal battle with wide-ranging implications for how technology firms must work with law enforcement. The iPhone maker is being asked to provide “reasonable assistance” to the investigation of the last year’s deadly San Bernardino attacks by disabling security preventing the FBI from accessing…
BSS “Spotlight” triumphed Saturday at the Spirit Awards, the latest of a string of honors it has picked up in Hollywood’s annual prize giving season, with the Oscars just one day away. The movie, about the Boston Globe’s investigation into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church,took best film as well as best director for…
UNB Turkey all but turned a blind eye last year as more than 850,000 people, most of them Syrians, slipped into Greece from Turkey on smugglers’ boats. Now it’s promised the European Union that will change. Since reaching a deal with the EU in November, Turkey has stepped up its counter-smuggling efforts, increasing…
UNB It’s so unlikely you have to pinch yourself to believe it. Donald Trump, a property billionaire and reality TV star with no political experience, loud, vulgar and with a preposterous hairstyle, is well on his way to becoming the Republican party’s presidential candidate, reports NDTV. He’s storming into Super Tuesday, when 11 US…
UNB Cristiano Ronaldo says Real Madrid could be leading the Spanish league if everyone on the team was at his level. After a 1-0 home loss to rival Atletico Madrid on Saturday virtually ended the team’s chances of winning the title, Ronaldo criticized Spanish media for blaming him for the team’s poor performances and…
UNB A newly sworn-in police officer on her first shift with her Virginia department was shot and killed Saturday and two of her colleagues were wounded in a confrontation stemming from a call about an argument. Officers received a call around 5:30 Saturday evening in Woodbridge, about 30 miles southwest of the nation’s capital,…