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…
Desk Report: Teenagers who smoke and drink alcohol are causing visible damage to their arteries by the age of 17, a study has revealed. Tests showed stiffening of the arteries had begun by this relatively young age.These physical changes have been linked with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel problems, such as stroke…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
UNB On three accounts, Kofi Annan, perhaps one of the most distinguished and illustrious UN Secretary-General, was quite different from rest of the lot. One, he was the first UN Secretary-General ever to come from a lifelong career in the UN bureaucracy. Two, he was also the first UN Secretary-General from sub-Saharan Africa, a courtly…