Risky job without safety measures

    Desk Report: Thousands of workers at different dockyards in Nesarabad upazila work without any safety measures and equipment, risking their lives, reports Daily Star. As a result, accidents often occur there, some of them fatal. Recently, two people were electrocuted at two separate dockyards there. On a visit to several dockyards, this correspondent saw electric…

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      French and British fishermen clash in scallop war skirmish

      AFP: Stone-throwing, insults and dangerous maneuvers on the high seas: French and British fishermen clashed in the English Channel over a hoard of scallops Tuesday, the latest flare-up in a years-long war over the prized shellfish. The British were heavily outnumbered at five boats to around 35 French vessels, according to maritime official Ingrid Parot,…

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        Drug dealers discover new tactics

        Desk Report: Drug dealers have innovated a new tactics to supply drugs as an anti-narcotics drive is going on across the country, reports Daily Sun. According to latest information, Yaba pills were smuggled in hidden caskets of cosmetics through Sundarban Courier Service (pvt) Ltd from Chattogram to Dhaka on Monday. A team of Rapid Action…

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          Israeli court lines up behind unauthorized settlement

          Reuters: An Israeli court has given legal recognition to a Jewish settlement built without Israeli government authorization on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, breaking new judicial ground. Israel’s ultranationalist justice minister on Wednesday hailed the Jerusalem District Court’s decision, announced late on Tuesday, relating to Mitzpe Kramim, an outpost established in…

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            China dithers working with any new project in Myanmar

            Air Commodore (Retd) Ishfaq Ilahi Choudhury, International Affairs and Security Analyst: Bangladesh will reap benefit of the pressure on Myanmar, wherever it comes from. The UN report, released on Monday, which accused Myanmar’s military of carrying out mass killings and gang rapes with “genocidal intent”, is a great achievement for Bangladesh. The report also called…

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              Female journalist hacked to death in Pabna

              M Humayun Kabir: Suborna Nodi, the Pabna correspondent of Ananda TV, was hacked to death by unidentified criminals near her house in the district town on Tuesday night. Some four to five criminals attacked and hacked 30-year-old Nodi, daughter of Ayub Ali of Radhanagar village, when she was entering home from her office around 10pm,…

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                Syrian entrepreneur opening bars in Damascus

                BBC: When civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, tourism was hit badly, forcing Somar Hazim to close his boutique hotel in Damascus. While millions of Syrians fled their country, Somar decided to stay despite having lost his business.Three years ago he started a new company and opened one of the first bars in the…

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                  Communist poet held over plot to assassinate PM Modi

                  Hossen Sohel: Maoist ideologue and writer P Varavara Rao was arrested in Hyderabad for his alleged involvement in a plot to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reports NDTV. Police said, they arrested five activists, including Rao, on Tuesday for alleged Maoist links but Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the government just wanted to “jail…

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