Reuters: Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party won the majority of seats in parliament after sweeping rural constituencies by huge margins, official results showed yesterday, setting the stage for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission results showed Mnangagwa’s ZANU-PF cruising to a big majority after picking up 109 seats against 41 for the opposition Movement…
Kabir Humayun: Siraj-ganj district administration has formed a five-member committee to probe into deaths of eight people by electrocution on Tuesday. The probe body headed by Additional DC (general) Moniruzzaman has been asked to submit the report within 24 hours, said Sirajganj DC Qamrun Nahar Siddika. The other committee members include Power Development Board executive…
UNB: A sub-inspector of Bakolia Police Station was suspended on Tuesday over recovery of Yaba tablets from his house in Paschim Bakalia area in the city. SM Mostain Hossain, deputy police commissioner, said the punitive action was taken against SI Khandaker Saifuddin in the night. Besides, a three-member probe committee, headed by Nobel Chakma, assistant…
AP: Afghan officials say more than 150 Daesh fighters have surrendered to government forces in the face of an onslaught by the Taliban in the northern Jawzjan province. Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, the provincial police chief, said 152 fighters surrendered Wednesday, including Habib-ul Rahman, their commander. Abdul Hai Hayat, the head of the provincial council,…
Reuters: New management close to Prime Minister Viktor Orban took over a prominent Hungarian news television channel on Wednesday, cementing his ruling Fidesz party’s dominance of the media as it solidifies its hold on power. Orban won a third successive landslide in elections in April and set his sights on imprinting his anti-immigration politics on…
Desk Report: The editor and publisher of leading business daily The Financial Express, AHM Moazzem Hossain, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Dhaka, reports Dhaka Tribune. Moazzem’s son Fahim Hossain told the Dhaka Tribune around 6:40pm at Square Hospital that his father had died in the afternoon there and the doctors would soon issue…
BBC: A US federal judge in Seattle has blocked the release of software that allows consumers to 3D-print firearms. Gun access advocacy group Defense Distributed was due to put downloadable gun blueprints online on Wednesday. The firm reached a settlement with the Trump administration in June to allow it to legally publish the instructions. But…
UNB: The reelection to two polling stations, where voting was postponed during Monday’s Sylhet City Corporation polls, will be held on August 11. The Election Commission on Wednesday fixed the date and sent a letter, signed by its joint secretary Farhad Ahmad Khan, to Returning Officer Md Alimuzzaman for taking necessary steps in this regard….
AP: A campaign to expand legal abortions in the homeland of Pope Francis is bitterly dividing Argentines — and increasingly even the profession that would be asked to carry them out. Hundreds of physicians have staged anti-abortion protests as an abortion rights bill moves toward a vote in the Senate next week. Some have demonstrated while…
BSS: The government has decided to observe the 88th birth anniversary of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib nationally with due respect on August 8. The Women and Child Affairs Ministry has taken elaborate programmes marking the anniversary, said an official release here yesterday. Marking the day, a discussion will be held at the Bangabandhu International Conference…