Sayeed Muhammad: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the ICT adviser to the prime minister, in his Facebook account yesterday blamed BNP and Jamaat for spreading false stories online to incite the students who are demanding road safety. His status reads: “Our Awami League Government has agreed to all the demands of the student road safety protesters and…
The Guardian, UK: A 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab on Friday became the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new law banning full-face Islamic veils in public places, media reported. Police were called to a shopping centre in Horsholm, in the north-eastern region of Nordsjaelland, where the woman had become involved…
Times of Israel: Iranian authorities have barely mentioned days of raging protests in several major cities including Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad and Tehran, which are driven by concerns over the economy as well as wider anger at the political system. The rulers of Iran may have a good reason to hide the scale of the demonstrations….
Reuters: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged on Saturday to provide nearly $300 million in new security funding for Southeast Asia, as China forges ahead with plans to bolster its engagement in the region. Pompeo unveiled the figure to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of…
UNB: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Myanmar on Saturday to immediately release two Reuters journalists held on charges of possessing secret documents. Pompeo said in a tweet he raised U.S. concerns about the two reporters “detained in Burma for doing their job” during a meeting with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Kyaw Tin on…
Abrar Hussain: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has urged protesters demanding safer roads to be ‘patient’ and call off their demonstrations. The minister made the remarks during the convocation ceremony of Sylhet Metropolitan University on yesterday morning. He added that the government has accepted all of the students’ demands, adding that some of the demands…
Desk report: At least 25,120 people died in road accidents across the country in the past three and a half years, reports the daily star. This record suggests 20 people were killed in Bangladesh every day. Another 62,482 people were injured in the road accidents that occured in the three and a half years, according…
Hossen Sohel: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia declared traffic week throughout the country from today. Thanking the students for their initiative to maintain and regulating traffic rules, DMP chief said that from today traffic week will begin and requested the students to go back to their studies. “From now on police will maintain…
UNB: Three people were killed and 30 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka on Friday evening.The deceased could not be identified immediately.
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy Director General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy : In the 21st century, human civilization has reached the pinnacle of glory in science and technology. Scientists discovered the truth about atoms; man landed on the moon and man-made satellites are rocketing in the far sky and around the universe. Scientists…