Desk Report: Bangladesh Cricket Board is looking to send some of the country’s leading cricketers to county cricket to hone their skill sets. To make headway in this regard, the board has asked newly appointed head coach Steve Rhodes to try and make some arrangements so that some of his charges have the opportunity to…
Arab News: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte thinks political dynasties are bad. But the way the prevailing political winds are blowing, it looks like a dynasty of his own might be taking shape. Nine months away from mid-term elections that could determine the success or failure of his presidency, his daughter, Sara Duterte, is fast emerging…
BBC: New Zealand’s minister for women has cycled to hospital to give birth to her first child at 42 weeks. The Green Party’s Julie Genter said she went by bicycle to be induced because “there wasn’t enough space in the car”. She posted pictures on Instagram of her and her partner enjoying the “beautiful Sunday…
Saba Ali/NDTV For a minute, it felt good, somewhat thrilling, to walk down Main Street exposed. I zipped past the family-friendly brunch district, footloose and fancy free. I’m a Muslim woman who’s worn a head covering for more than two decades, and I had decided to take my headscarf off for one sunny morning. Something…
CNN: A New Zealand lawmaker made her own way to a hospital to have her baby, covering the kilometers from her suburban home to a maternity ward on a bicycle. The move neatly ties together Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter’s roles as Minister for Woman and Associate Minister for Transport and for Health. Genter,…
Kabir Humayun: Mem-bers of Bangladesh Coast Guard have rescued 10 workers after a brick-laden trawler capsized in the Meghna river in Munshiganj yesterday. The rescued people are Abdul Mannan, 32, Md Harun, 27, Md Alamgir, 23, Md Ismail, 30, Md Nurul Haque, 28, Md Moin Uddin, 36, Md Abu Bakar, 26, Md Hatem, 22, Md…
Masood Kamal, Senior News Editor, Banglavision: I felt bad seeing newspaper in the morning. Students are being arrested for joining the protests demanding road safety. The newspaper I went through, had named 99 students arrested. Eid-ul-Azha is just a few days away. It feels really bad to think how grief their parents are in. I…
Reuters: Sudanese-born British national Salih Khater was charged with two counts of attempted murder on Saturday and will appear in court on Monday after a car careered into people and a barrier at Britain’s parliament earlier this week, police said. Khater will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with the attempted murders of…
AP: A California woman said Saturday that she had to drive herself to the hospital and give birth without her husband after he was detained by immigration agents. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the man was detained because he was wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant in a homicide case in Mexico. Maria…
UNB: Though the traditional markets still remain the key source of charm for cattle collection, digital platforms, like previous four years, bring greater comfort to consumers in buying their sacrificial animals ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. There are growing numbers of consumers who prefer buying sacrificial animals through online portals to avoid hassles in traditional cattle…