BDnews24: Some operators are defying the decision by the owners to cancel the system of operating buses on daily deposits or contracts with workers in an effort to curb road accidents in Dhaka. Owners’ organisation Dhaka Road Transport Association cancelled membership of five companies on Thursday for not following their decision. In the system that…
BBC: A federal judge has ordered a mother and her daughter to be flown back to the United States, after learning they had been deported mid-appeal. The two were being represented in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who said they had fled “extreme sexual and gang violence”. The judge said it…
BDnews24: Bangladesh girls have begun the defence of their SAFF Under-15 Women’s Championship in some style by thumping Pakistan 14-0 in Bhutan. Midfielder Shamsunnahar scored four goals; Tohura Khatun, Sajeda Khatun and Anai Mogini two each; and Monica Chakma, Maria Manda, Ankhi Khatun and defender Shamsunnahar one apiece for the reigning champions at the Changlimithang…
The election of Imran Khan represents a turnabout in policy in South Asia in ways few expect. Khan will close the door on America’s longtime policy toward the Caspian Basin, a policy of dominance, regime change and military colonization. That policy will die a needed and painful death. First of all, where no Pakistani leader…
Hindustan Times: Blue lightemitted from smartphones and other digital devices can accelerate blindness by transforming vital molecules in the eye’s retina into cell killers, a study has found. Macular degeneration, an incurable eye disease that results in significant vision loss starting on average in a person’s 50s or 60s, is the death of photoreceptor cells…
GIzmodo: When it comes to naming the world’s fastest creature, it’s tempting to think of peregrine falcons, cheetahs, or marlins, but as researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology are apt to point out, we mustn’t forget Spirostomum ambiguum—a worm-like creature that reaches breakneck speeds through rapid shrinkage. Spirostomum ambiguum is a single-celled protozoan that’s often…
Reuters: Turkey will not lose the economic war it is engaged in, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday, after the lira tumbled to a record low against the U.S. dollar over economic worries and concerns over a row with the United States. “We will not lose the economic war,” Erdogan was quoted…
M Humayun Kabir: A Dhaka court yesterday put actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed on a two-day fresh remand in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Amirul Haider Chowdhury passed the order rejecting the bail petition, reports UNB. Earlier in the day, Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, inspector of Counter Terrorism…
CNN: Amateur fossil enthusiast Phil Mullaly knew he had found something special when he spotted something glimmering in a boulder. Mullaly was walking along Jan Juc, a renowned fossil site along Victoria’s Surf Coast in south Australia, when he spotted a partially exposed shark tooth in the rock. “I was immediately excited, it was just…
Manzurul Ahsan Khan, Former President Communist Party of Bangladesh: Bangabandhu is still relevant in Bangladesh because he and his ideology work as a North Star to us. We will keep proceeding by following his ideology. Bangabandhu had been assassinated on August 15, 1975 only to destroy Bangladesh. Local and international conspiracies were there to stop…