UNB: Stocks finished lower Sunday, breaking a three-day winning streak, as risk-averse investors chose to book quick gain on sector-wise stocks. Market insiders said the retail investors went for booking profits, especially banking sector issues, which triggered a selling pressure in the market.
WIO News: En route to mountainous Tajikistan’s “roof of the world” lies a hastily-erected memorial to four bike tourists killed in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group late last month. The attack comes as a deep blow to Tajikistan, which has been trying to promote the authoritarian country as a tourism hotspot, simplifying visa…
AFP: A bell tolled yesterday (Aug 6) in Hiroshima as Japan marked 73 years since the world’s first atomic bombing, with the city’s mayor warning that rising nationalism worldwide threatened peace. The skies over Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park were clear, just as they were on Aug 6, 1945, when an American B-29 bomber dropped its deadly…
The Guardian, UK: Deaths caused by the drug fentanyl rose by nearly 30% last year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. While statistics show that the rate of deaths from drug poisoning in England and Wales has remained steady – 66.1 deaths per 1 million people (3,756 deaths) – fatalities involving the…
AP: A human rights group urged Bangladesh’s government on Monday to abandon plans to relocate Rohingya Muslim refugees to a small, uninhabited island said to be at severe risk of serious flooding. Human Rights Watch said in a report released in Bangkok, Thailand, that international experts have identified six sites near the existing camp housing…
UNB: A retired headmaster of a primary school was killed after being hit by an autorickshaw in front of a bank in Kalai upazila headquarters yesterday morning.
M Humayun Kabir: At least 40 people, mostly students of North South University (NSU), Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB) and other nearby universities, were injured in clashes with police and attackers at Bashundhara Residential Area in the city yesterday. The injured were rushed to Apollo Hospital, according to a doctor at the hospital’s emergency department….
Ideapod: Did you also envy the child in class who could memorize everything, for whom any test or exam was a piece of cake due to a good memory? Did you also think this enviable person was much smarter than you? Science has just proven this wrong! First of all, a good memory doesn’t equate…
Rasheda K Chowdhury, Distinguished Academic : After countless losses of life as well as injustices, the students could not remain silent any longer. This is an expression of pent-up anger after seeing so much injustice for so long. These protests are the explosions of this anger. The students are not doing politics; in fact, this…
UNB: Global bank HSBC reported Monday that its pre-tax profit in the first half of the year rose 4.6 percent as its strategy focused on growing markets paid off.The London-based bank’s $10.7 billion pre-tax profit in January-June compared with $10.2 billion a year earlier. Quarterly pre-tax profit surged to $5.96 billion from $4.8 billion in…