Muhammad Zamir, Former Ambassador, International Affairs Analyst West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has rightly pointed out that the BJP-led central government is hatching conspiracy to drive Bengali-speaking population out of Assam. People migrated to Assam from different places like Tripura, Nagaland and Mizoram. The plan to axe Bengali-speaking people from Assam is never acceptable….
Hossen Sohel: A pick-up van ran over a student when a group of them attempted to stop the vehicle at Shonir Akhra area yesterday. Demanding justice for two college students killed by a speeding bus on Airport Road on Sunday, students of various educational institutes occupied strategic locations of the capital and staged demonstrations for…
UNB: The Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) of Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) has nominated Bangladesh as the Vice Chairman of IORA for the period of 2019-21 and eventually as the Chairman for the period of 2021-23. Head of Bangladesh delegation and Secretary (Maritime Affairs Unit) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rear Admiral Md…
The Times of Israel: US president blasts the ‘horrible, one-sided’ 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers; head of powerful Revolutionary Guards dismisses idea of Trump meeting Rouhani US President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that talks with arch foe Iran were perhaps imminent, despite skepticism from Iran and outright rejection of the idea from…
AFP: The pumpkin is diced, the chicken carved and the eggs beaten into an omelette, but the people preparing the food are not chefs – they are scientists testing produce from Japan’s Fukushima region. Seven years after the March 2011 nuclear disaster caused by a devastating tsunami, rigorous testing shows no radioactive threat from Fukushima’s produce,…
Hindustan Times: Eleven minor girls, including five-year-olds, were rescued by the police in the famous temple town of Yadagirigutta in Telangana’s Yadadri Bhongir district from sex traffickers, who allegedly administered sex hormones to them so that they could attain early puberty and pushed into flesh trade. Eight alleged traffickers from the Dommari community were arrested…
Daily Mail, UK: The US will urge the international community to keep up sanctions pressure against North Korea at a security forum in Singapore this week, as concerns mount that Pyongyang has made little progress towards denuclearisation. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his North Korean counterpart will attend the gathering in the city-state where…
Reuters: An English court has cleared the way to consider whether it will allow the families of some of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to make a claim on Iranian assets in Britain. The relatives want the English High Court to enforce a 2012 decision by a U.S. court…
UNB: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday interrogated the former managing director (MD) of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) SM Nurul Aurangzeb over the ‘disappearance of coal’ from Barapukuria coal mine. ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB that the investigation officer of ACC deputy director Md Shamsul Alam quizzed Nurul Aurangzeb…
AFP: India has banned the import of a rabies vaccine from a Chinese manufacturer embroiled in a safety scandal, the head of India’s drug regulator told a newspaper in comments published Wednesday. “The vaccine is being used in India, but we don’t have the exact details of the total number of units imported or where…