UNB: The government is procuring 300 double-decker, 200 air-conditioned and 100 single-decker non-AC buses under the second Indian Line of Credit (LoC) to Bangladesh. A contract signing ceremony between Bangladesh and India for the procurement of 300 double-decker buses for the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation under the second LoC extended by India to Bangladesh was…
Ali Abo Rezeg/Daily Sabah, Turkey For more than a month, the Palestinian territories have been immersed in shuttle diplomacy lead by the head of Egyptian intelligence, Abbas Kaamil, and U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov. The two envoys have made a handful of visits and held meetings with Hamas leaders…
Reuters: At least eight people were killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint in western Iraq, the local mayor said on Wednesday. The attacker drove a car rigged with explosives into the checkpoint in Qaim district, which was jointly manned by the army and Shi’ite militias, mayor Ahmed…
Water world: The winners of the 2018 Urban Drinking Water Challenge, a global innovation competition to deploy and scale decentralized drinking water solutions for fast-growing, water-scarce cities, were showcased at an award ceremony hosted by Founding Partners Bluewater and 11th Hour Racing as well as Imagine H2O. Over 160 startups from 37 countries registered for…
William Saunderson-Meyer, South African journalist/Reuters On Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.” He then quoted Fox News host Tucker Carlson: “South African Government is now seizing land…
Phys.Org: The Chinese kindergarten children giggled as they worked to solve puzzles assigned by their new teaching assistant: a roundish, short educator with a screen for a face. Just under 60 centimetres (two feet) high, the autonomous robot named Keeko has been a hit in several kindergartens, telling stories and challenging children with logic problems….
Sayeed Muhammad: The police have allowed BNP to hold a rally marking its 40th founding anniversary in Dhaka’s Nayapaltan on September 1. BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anne confirmed the development yesterday afternoon, reports The Daily Star. Earlier in the day, a delegation of the party went to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) headquarters in…
Desk Report: Even after greater electricity coverage, a large portion of the rural population still depends on kerosene as their source of light and means of cooking and they are not getting the benefit of power sector subsidy as they have to pay more on the fossil fuel, finds a new study, reports Daily Sun….
The Guardian, UK: More than 50,000 people evacuated their homes in central Myanmar on Wednesday after a dam breach flooded towns and villages and caused the closure of a major highway, two officials said. Fire authorities sent a team to the Swar irrigation dam after the breach at 5.30 am (11pm GMT) unleashed water into…
Desk Report: Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon declared the capital’s Dhanmondi area free from waste, after inaugurating five Secondary Transfer Stations (STS) for dumping waste beside Kalabagan playground in the city, reports Daily Star. The mayor said, “With the introduction of the STS, no waste or container carrying waste will be seen…