M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she had not built a Digital Bangladesh for spreading rumours on social media. She came up with the remarks during the foundation laying ceremony for the new underpass to be built near Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College on Dhaka’s Airport Road, reports bdnews24.com. Addressing the students…
Hossen Sohel: Two children were among 10 victims injured in a shooting in the Moss Side area of Manchester. Police said the victims had “pellet-type wounds that are not believed to be serious”. One man is in a serious condition in hospital with leg wounds, reports BBC. The shooting took place yesterday at a street…
Desk Report: The National Mourning Day, commemorating the 45th anniversary of Bangabandhu’s tragic assassination, will be observed across the country on August 15th. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in a military putsch on August 15 in 1975, along with most of his family members. The predawn attacks left a total of 24 people killed….
Russia Today: While its opponents are investing in wars, Beijing is investing in infrastructure. China seeks to build a tunnel that would connect its mainland with Taiwan. If realized, shuttle trains would run through a 135km undersea section of the tunnel at up to 250kph by 2030 from China to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a…
Reuters: Iran and four ex-Soviet nations, including Russia, agreed in principle on Sunday how to divide up the potentially huge oil and gas resources of the Caspian Sea, paving way for more energy exploration and pipeline projects. However, the delimitation of the seabed – which has caused most disputes – will require additional agreements between…
-Prof. AAMS Arefin Siddique, Former Vice Chancellor, University of Dhaka: When Bangabandhu was murdered on August 15, 1975, it was as if the whole nation was murdered. Bangladesh couldn’t move forward since that day. The nation went in a completely Pakistan-centric direction. After murdering Bangabandhu, the conspirators declared Bangladesh Betar as ‘Radio Bangladesh’; and instead…
Reuters: The number of violent attacks on refugees and asylum shelters in Germany has fallen sharply in the first half of this year, data from the interior ministry seen by Reuters showed on Sunday. Police registered 704 such cases from January to June, down more than a third from the 1,127 reported in the first…
UNB: Knowledge Industry (KI) and Safety and Rights Society (SRS) on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to investigate workplace deaths across the country, and help the victims’ families realise compensation. KI Managing Director Mahamudul Haque and SRS Executive Director Sekendar Ali Mina inked the deal at SRS office in the capital’s Mohammadpur area….
Reuters: Security forces on Sunday pulled the bodies of three suspected militants out of a partially collapsed building in a city in central Jordan following a shoot out, a government spokeswoman said. Security forces had raided the building in a search for those responsible for a bomb attack on a police van on Friday that…
NDTV: Two inmates died at a shelter for women with mental disabilities in Bihar, their postmortem was also conducted at Patna Medical College, but the officials of the state-run facility didn’t bother to inform the police. A 40-year-old woman and a girl, 16, were taken to the hospital on Friday, but the doctors declared them…