Abrar Hussain: A recent research has claimed that nearly 11,000 women in Bangladesh die of uterus cancer annually, while about fifty million females are at risk to be affected by the disease. The research, conducted by a team of uterus cancer experts, highlighted that the illiterate, underprivileged and sex workers are at the greatest risk…
Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, political analyst, founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra: Even the incumbent government is not satisfied with the Election Commission. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader told the EC to speak carefully. Recently, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) said that the commission cannot guarantee irregularity-free national elections. Such kind of comment from the CEC is…
The Hill: Germany’s top economic official is criticizing President Trump over U.S. trade policies, saying that the escalating tariff dispute is “destroying” economic progress in his country. “This trade war is slowing down and destroying economic growth – and it creates new uncertainties,” Economy Minister Peter Altmaier told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper, according to…
BBC: A 12-year-old boy has been found alive in the wreckage of a plane crash which killed eight people in Indonesia. Photos from the scene show the boy conscious and looking at the camera. He was found with the wreckage on a mountainside near the border with Papua New Guinea on Sunday morning. The Swiss-made…
Reuters: Washington was bracing for a white nationalist rally on Sunday organized to coincide with the anniversary of last year’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The “Unite the Right 2” event was scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Several counterprotests have…
M Humayun Kabir: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said the international conspirators who were behind the massacre of August 15, 1975 are still active. He was speaking as the chief guest at a discussion session on National Mourning Day organised by the district Awami League’s south chapter. He also said foreigners have questioned the…
Anadolu Agency: At least 32 people were killed in an explosion in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency. The blast took place in Sarmada district, where civilians displaced from the northern Homs province live, White Helmets director in Idlib Mustafa Haj Youssef told Anadolu Agency. He said…
BBC: A theme park in France is set to deploy six “intelligent” birds to pick up rubbish and spruce up the grounds. The rooks at the Puy du Fou theme park in the west of the country have been taught to collect cigarette ends and other small bits of rubbish. They then deposit the litter…
Reuters: The airline worker who stole an empty airplane from a Seattle airport on a flight that ended in his death once ran a bakery with his wife and enjoyed the benefits that came with his job to travel the world, social media posts showed. Richard Russell, who liked to be called Beebo, was a…
Hossen Sohel: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is confident of being re-elected with an even bigger majority in parliament in 2019, dismissing opposition attempts to rouse opinion against his government for failing to deliver on promises of swift economic development and more jobs for young people, reports Reuters. Modi told the Times of India in…