M Humayun Kabir: At least 50 tigers were beaten to death in the areas adjacent to the Sundarbans in the last 18 years. During the same period, a total of 332 people were killed by the big cats as they entered localities in search of food. The last incident of killing a tiger was reported…
William Hague/Gulf News: A small flame of statesmanship would be lit in a European scene steadily darkened by inflexibility and lack of leadership The last week has seen the most concerted British diplomatic push with its French neighbours in many years. Days after the new British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, raced straight to Paris from…
Desk Report: The government has appointed an internationally reputed lawyer to bring back the six fugitive convicted killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports the financial express. The convicts are absconding in different countries. “We have recently appointed a globally famous lawyer to pave the way for bringing back six convicted…
Ghacks: Google removed the direct Contacts link on Gmail when it launched the new Gmail interface some time ago. Users of the classic Gmail interface could still open contacts from the main menu; this option is being removed by Google according to a new post on the official GSuite Updates blog. The reason? Google states…
Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, Professor and Founder Chair, Dept. of Television, Film and Photography, University of Dhaka Facebook and Twitter have turned into rumor mill s in Bangladesh. Compared to Twitter, Facebook is used more ominously. The liberals who think the online based media as technologies of freedom may find this statement…
The Science Alert: Touching a star isn’t easy. The sun is an enormous, searing-hot orb of plasma that generates a chaos of magnetic fields and can unleash deadly blasts of particles at a moment’s notice. But that is precisely what NASA plans to do – 24 times or more – with its car-size Parker Solar…
Arab News: Populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr retained his lead in Iraq’s May parliamentary election, results of a nationwide recount of votes showed on Friday, positioning him to play a central role in forming the country’s next government. Iraq’s Independent High Election Commission (IHEC) released the results of the recount on its website early on…
CNN: High above one of the most hotly contested regions in the world, CNN was given a rare look Friday at the Chinese government’s rapidly expanding militarization of the South China Sea Aboard a US Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane, CNN got a view from 16,500 feet of low-lying coral reefs turned into garrisons with…
BBC: Reading English has been the same for centuries – you start at the top of the page and work left to right, line by line. But what if that was all about to change? The problem is that the movements of our eyes between words takes up time and slows us down. The BBC…
Sayeed Muhammad: In yet another positive move to the country’s power sector, Bangladesh has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nepal to increase cooperation in the power sector and expedite the process of importing hydro-electricity from Nepal. Apart from the import of hydro-electricity from Nepal through India, the MoU includes investments by Bangladesh in Nepal’s…