Russia Today: The former Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo had been issued with a fine of $21.4 million after being found to have breached Spanish tax laws, but this sum has been reduced by Spanish tax authorities, El Mundo reports. The arrangement between the tax authorities and Ronaldo, who recently signed for Italian champions Juventus,…
Abrar Hussain: In response to Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader’s remarks regarding dialogue, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said his party has some ‘specific demands’ on which discussions should be held. He made the remarks at a press conference in party’s Naya Paltan party office yesterday, reports Banglanews. Quader had initially…
MEMO: Israeli occupation authorities began a massive settlement project that will annex large parts of four villages surrounding the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, isolating them, the Palestinian Information Centre reported yesterday. As a result, the villages of Biter, Wadi Fokin, Nahhalin and Hosan west of Bethlehem, home to some 20,000 Palestinians, would be…
AP: An earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has killed 387 people, authorities said on Saturday, adding hundreds of thousands of displaced people were still short of clean water, food and medicine nearly a week on. The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake Sunday levelled tens of thousands of homes, mosques and businesses across Lombok, just one…
Abrar Hussain: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia has announced a three-day extension to the ongoing Traffic Week countrywide. He made with the announcement at a press briefing held at the DMP Media Centre yesterday noon, reported Banglanews. “Meanwhile, we are gaining positive results of the Traffic Week that began on August 5. Progress…
Sayeed Muhammad: The Awami League and BNP candidates in the Sylhet City Corporation mayoral race have expressed their satisfaction with the environment of the re-election to two centres yesterday, where the polls were suspended. BNP-backed aspirant Ariful Haque Chowdhury visited the Ward-24 Gazi Burhan Uddin Garam Dewan Government Primary School polling centre at 12noon, reports…
Arab News: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s partnership with the United States may be in jeopardy as ties strain, warning Ankara could start looking for new allies, in an op-ed published in the New York Times on Saturday. Relations between the two NATO allies have sunk to their lowest point in decades over a…
Desk Report: Majority of the city dwellers are faced with mounting pressure due to abnormal rise in house rents over the last few years, reports Daily Sun. In absence of a proper law and slack monitoring by the authorities concerned, the situation continues to deteriorate, allege city dwellers. Those who belong to the lower or…
Reuters: Gay McDougall, a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, cited estimates that 2 million Uighurs and Muslim minorities were forced into “political camps for indoctrination” in the western Xinjiang autonomous region. “We are deeply concerned at the many numerous and credible reports that we have received that in the…
Prof. Nazrul Islam, Former Chairman, UGC: To make people obey traffic laws, efforts should be underway throughout the whole year, not just one week. The effort should be constant. The current situation of road transport is due to years of indiscipline, corruption and anarchy. These problems cannot be solved in a mere week or even…