AP: Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa won election on Friday with just over 50 percent of the ballots as the ruling party maintained control of the government in the first vote since the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa received 50.8 percent of the vote while main opposition challenger Nelson Chamisa received 44.3 percent. The…
BDnews24:There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but police said at least two men had entered the mosque in the city of Gardez in the province of Paktia where about 60 people were praying. The blast hit the Khawaja Hassan mosque. “Emergency teams have collected 25 bodies from the mosque premises and…
M Humayun Kabir: Agitating students took to the streets in Dhaka today for the sixth consecutive day protesting Thurday’s attack on their fellows allegedly by police and ‘ruling party men’ in the capital’s Mirpur. While visiting different areas in the capital including Dhanmondi and Mirpur, the students were found assuming the role of traffic police…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a fresh cal to the student protesters, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged them not to step into any ‘instigation trap’. “After failing in the quota reform demos, the BNP and the fundamental forces are depending on the students and they want to instigate their movement,” said Quader, also the…
Arab News: Osama Bin Laden, the world’s former most wanted man for terrorism charges, was set on using Saudi citizens to destroy relations between the west and the east, according to officials in Riyadh, London and Washington DC. “There is no doubt that he deliberately chose Saudi citizens for the 9/11 plot,” a British intelligence…
M Humayun Kabir: Bus owners and workers have stopped operating transport services in different districts since yesterday morning citing safety of the workers and vehicles following student movement. The students of schools and colleges mainly from Dhaka took to the streets demanding safety on the roads and justice for their two fellows who were killed…
Abrar Hussain:Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad reportedly visited road crash victim Diya’s house yesterday and demanded death penalty of the bus driver that killed two students on the capital’s Airport Road. He later told reporters that he assured the family of financial assistance, reports Banglanews24. “When I was the president I enacted a law for…
The Hill: The White House is recruiting for a new Middle East policy team ahead of the release of its long-awaited Middle East peace plan, according to a new report on Friday. Staffers joining the team are being assigned for six months to a year, according to The Associated Press. The team is divided into…
Desk Report: Another school student lost her life in a hit-and-run accident in Shakhipur upazila, Tangail Friday morning, reports the Dhaka tribune. Sadia Jahan, 15, was crossing the road at Beltoli Bazar in Shakhipur’s Kalia union around 9:30am when a pick-up truck struck her from behind and ran over her. She was rushed to Shakhipur…
Abrar Hussain: Assailants, reportedly in coordinated attacks, have burnt down at least twelve schools for boys and girls in the country’s north before fleeing, alleged a Pakistani police officer as well as residents. Local police officer Mohammad Bashir says the attacks on schools took place before dawn yesterday near the northern town of Chilas, but…