Reuters: Singapore will scan travelers’ eyes at some of its border checkpoints, local media reported on Monday, in a trial of expensive technology that could one day replace fingerprint verification. It is the latest in a series of high-tech initiatives in the city-state, some of which have stoked privacy concerns among rights advocates, aimed at…
AFP: More than one thousand tourists were being evacuated from Indonesia’s tiny Gili islands on Monday after a powerful quake struck neighbouring Lombok, killing 91 people and injuring hundreds. The Gilis are three coral-fringed tropical islands popular with backpackers and divers, a few kilometres off the northwest coast of the larger Lombok island. Footage posted…
Reuters: An Iraqi court sentenced a French man and a German woman to life in prison on Monday after finding them guilty of belonging to Islamic State. Judge Suhail Abdullah read out the sentences in Iraq’s Central Criminal Court, saying he found French citizen Lahcen Ammar Gueboudj, 55, and the German, Nadia Rainer Hermann, 22,…
UNB: Three people died and another person fell sick after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank of an under-construction building in Bank Colony area of Nasrsingdi municipality yesterday.
Daily Telegraph: New mesh, higher fencing and more cameras will be installed on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a bid to stop people from illegally climbing the landmark. The NSW government will also increase six-fold the maximum fine to $22,000 – in line with the punishment for illegally scaling the Sydney Opera House. The move…
Kabir Humayun: A Dhaka court yesterday placed noted photographer and Managing Director of Drik Gallery Shahidul Alam on seven-day remand in a case filed against him under Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. The court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor passed the order. Earlier, DB inspector Arman Ali produced Shahidul before the…
Sayeed Muhammad: At least five people died as some 44 people were shot across the Midwestern US city of Chicago on Sunday, US media reported, saying the development that came in a wave of violence which police branded “totally unacceptable”. Fred Waller, chief of patrol at Chicago Police, told a press briefing on Sunday afternoon that…
Dr Muhammad Abdul Mazid, Former Chairman, NBR : We have a completely competitive market system. The interest rate is dependent on the ups and downs of demand and supply. In all, if there is no capital in the banks, how would they be able to provide loans? Fixing the interest rates comes way later. On…
Reuters: A road accident caused a large explosion and a fire near Bologna airport in northern Italy on Monday, police said, and local media reported some people had been injured. Police said they had closed off the motorway where the crash took place as well as the surrounding area in Borgo Panigale, on the outskirts…
Abrar Hussain: Law enforcers have arrested four more people for allegedly spreading ‘rumors’ on social media to ‘create unrest’. Social Media Monitoring and Cyber Security Division of Dhaka metropolitan Police arrested Mahbubur Rahman Arman, 30, Alamgir Hossein, 27, and Saidul Islam, 31, between 8:00 pm and 11:30 pm Sunday from different parts of Dhaka. Meanwhile,…