M Humayun Kabir: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda yesterday said that it cannot be guaranteed that general elections will be held without any anomaly. The CEC said this while talking to reporters at the Election Training Institute at Agargaon, reports The Daily Star. Replying to a query on whether there is congenial atmosphere…
Independent, UK: Aziz Asbar was one of Syria’s most important rocket scientists, bent on amassing an arsenal of precision-guided missiles that could be launched with pinpoint accuracy against Israeli cities hundreds of miles away. He had free access to the highest levels of the Syrian and Iranian governments, and his own security detail. He led…
BBC: A US college student has made sure her graduation snaps are ones to remember – after posing in her cap and sash with a 14ft (4m) alligator.Makenzie Noland is a student at Texas A&M University who will graduate on Friday with a degree in wildlife and fisheries sciences.The senior has been interning at a…
BBC: Australia’s population will reach 25 million for the first time on Tuesday, according to official estimates. The milestone, driven significantly by migration, has magnified debate about the merits of a “big or little” Australia, and congestion in cities. The most contentious aspect has been migration: is it growing too fast, or will it continue…
Desk Report: Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon today said bus route franchise system can be a possible solution to the crisis that the transport sector in the country is currently facing now. He came up with the remark at a press briefing at Nagar Bhaban in the capital yesterday. Under the bus…
UNB: Two children drowned in a pond in Rangabali upazila of Patuakhali on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Hridoy, 4, son of Riaz Hawlader, and Asma, 5, daughter of Ashrab Hawlader. Both of them were hailed from Kamalnagar upazila of Laxmipur district.
The Sun Daily: An Israeli strike on Tuesday killed two militants of the Gaza Strip’s ruling Hamas movement after shots were fired at soldiers, Gazan and Israeli officials said. Hamas’s military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, confirmed in a statement that the dead men were its fighters and named them as Ahmed Murjan and Abdel-Hafez…
BBC: Authorities have identified the masterminds of the apparent drone assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as well as the people who assisted them, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said Monday. The investigation, which involves four prosecutors, has yielded the locations from where the drones were piloted, as well as the arrests of two…
Sayeed Muhammad: India has arrested Mohammed Jahidul Islam, a leader of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), for his involvement in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya explosion, said the country’s National Investigation Agency (NIA). A team of NIA arrested Jahidul, who has several alias names such as Kausar, Munna, Mizan and Boma Mizan, during a raid at his Ramanagara…
M Humayun Kabir: The European Union (EU) yesterday expressed concern over recent violent scenes in Dhaka and sought investigation into the actions against protesters and journalists to hold perpetrators accountable. “Incidents of unlawful or disproportionate violence or action against protestors, journalists or others need to stop; those that happened must be investigated and perpetrators be…