Abrar Hussain Dhaka University (DU) authorities discharged Prof Anwarullah Chowdhury from his post yesterday. The decision which has been informed sending a letter from university registrar office will be effective from today. Prof Anwarullah Chowdhury, a former vice-chancellor of DU, had to step down 16 years ago in the face of a student protests, reports…
Abrar Hussain A White House chief of staff said Tuesday that “Dreamers” are not top targets for deportation as long as they lack criminal records. A federal judge has indefinitely blocked Trump from terminating DACA’s protections for the so-called Dreamers, who were brought to the U.S. as children and are living here illegally. The program shields…
Sofian Khan The US House of Representatives joined the Senate on Tuesday seeking to over US economic aid to Pakistan while the Trump administration has already suspended military aid.A bill introduced in the House said that non-defence aid to Pakistan should also end and the money set aside for this purpose should be invested in…
Sofian Khan A decade after he swept to power in the Maldives’ first democratic elections, exiled opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed is again pushing for change by force if necessary as his island homeland spirals into crisis. Nasheed made history in 2008 when he defeated Maumoon Abdul Gayoom then Asia’s longest-serving leader after three decades of…
Abrar Hussain The Mal-dives’ Supreme Court has revoked an order to release high-profile political prisoners a day after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency and arrested two top judges on corruption charges.The remaining three judges of the supreme court said they were rescinding their 1 February order to release the prisoners “in light of…
Sofian Khan The Islamic State (IS) extremist group still poses “a significant and evolving threat around the world” regardless the recent setbacks in Syria, Iraq and the southern Philippines that forced the militants to relinquish strongholds, United Nations (UN) experts said.Their report to the UNSC circulated Tuesday said IS “has lost its focus on conquering and…
Sofian Khan Andrzej Duda has signed a bill to penalize people who discuss to Poland’s role during the Holocaust. Some Polish officials have called for the law, which has been pushed despite criticism by Israel and the United States.Despite objections from the United States and Israel, on Tuesday Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a controversial Holocaust…
Abrar Hussain African migrants facing deportation at a detention centre in Israel’s Negev desert have said that they would rather be imprisoned than sent to a country they know nothing about.”I won’t go there,” Abda Ishmael, a 28-year-old Eritrean, said in fluent Hebrew outside Holot, an open facility housing at least 1 200 migrants and…
Sofian Khan The United States President Donald Trump asked for a military parade and according to a Pentagon spokesman Charlie Summers, the Pentagon is reviewing potential dates. The spokesman described the planning process as being in its “infancy.” “President Trump is incredibly supportive of America’s great service members who risk their lives every day to keep…
Abrar Hussain A Ha-ripur Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) yesterday announced its verdict in the Mashal Khan lynching case – handing one person two death sentences, five persons multiple terms of life imprisonment, and 25 others four years in jail, but acquitted 26 others for want of sufficient evidence. All sentences are concurrent, which means that the…