M Humayun Kabir: UN investigators yesterday said Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for orchestrating the gravest crimes under law. In a report, they said the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi has allowed hate…
Desk Report: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday said the crisis over the sale of rawhide of sacrificial animals will be over soon as the government has taken steps in this regard, reports Daily Star. Talking to journalists at the Secretariat, he also said the government has no plan to export the rawhides to protect the…
Desk report: The country’s energy regulator is set to announce a fresh hike in natural gas tariff in September to foot the import bills of ‘expensive’ LNG, said officials, reports the financial express. The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) is now at the final stage of its scrutiny after holding public hearings over the tariff…
Desk Report: Pakis-tan’s new government has banned the discretionary use of state funds and first-class air travel by officials and leaders, including the president and the prime minister, as part of its austerity drive, reports NDTV. The decisions were made at a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday, according to Information Minister…
MEMO: Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Khaled Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, cousin of Manchester City owner and Arab billionaire Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, failed in a £2 billion ($2.55 billion) proposal to buy UK’s Liverpool Football Club, the Daily Mail reported late yesterday. The Emirati sheikh held talks with representatives of Liverpool’s owners from late…
UNB: Milk consumption has a large impact on linear growth in the crucial first 1,000 days of an infant’s life, potentially reducing stunting by as much as 10.4 point among children in Bangladesh, according to a new study done by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). “Increasing access to dairy products can be extremely…
M Humayun Kabir: Air pollution shortens an average Bangladeshi’s life by 1.87 years, say scientists. They also suggest that better air quality could lead to a significant extension of human lifespan around the world, reports UNB. This is the first time data on air pollution and lifespan has been studied together in order to examine…
Independent, UK: Vietnam has demanded Monsanto pay compensation to the victims of Agent Orange, which the company supplied to the US military during the Vietnam War. It came in response to the firm being ordered to pay $289m (£226m) to a school groundsman who claims his use of its Roundup weedkiller contributed to his terminal…
Sayeed Muhammad: Hundreds of people in Costa Rica have taken to the streets in San Jose in solidarity with Nicaraguan migrants who arrived there. Thousands of Nicaraguans have fled their country to escape the political crisis there, reports BBC, adding, the march was called after an anti-migrant demonstration a week ago ended in clashes and…
Arab News: Spokesman for the Arab coalition, Col. Turki Al-Malki has confirmed that Air Defense Forces intercepted a ballistic missile launched by Houthi militia toward Najran. Al-Maliki said that the missile was deliberately launched to target civilian and populated areas. The Saudi Royal Air Defense Force succeeded in intercepting and destroying the missile. The spokesman…