Desk Report: Japan provided a record amount of foreign aid to Bangladesh last year as the country was Asia’s second largest Official Development Assistance (ODA) recipient, officials said on Saturday, reports Financial Express. Official sources said Japan, the largest bilateral development partner of Bangladesh, disbursed Japanese Yen (JPY) 152.5 billion (US$ 1.54 billion) worth of…
Sky News: The key ingredients were absent from a number of supermarket and branded vanilla ice creams. One in five of the vanilla ice creams examined by Which? contained none of the three ingredients consumers might reasonably expect to find in them. Just half of the 24 ice creams in the survey contained all three…
Muhammad Zamir, Former Ambassador, International Affairs Analyst: Myanmar is now worried over the growing international pressure. Aung San Suu Kyi refuses to confess the ethnic cleansing carried out on the Rohingyas in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. Now she claims that they have implemented 81 percent of the 88 recommendations put forward by Kofi Annan…
Anadolu Agency: Arab members of Knesset (Israel’s parliament) are seeking UN censure of Israel over a recent law recognizing Israel as the “nation-state of the Jewish people”, The Jerusalem Post daily reported. “The Palestinian delegation, in cooperation with Knesset members from the Arab parties, is planning steps aimed at smearing Israel and damaging its image…
The Guardian, UK: Shocking footage has been played to a coronial inquest of the lead-up to the death of an Indigenous man who died after being restrained while on remand in a South Australian jail. Wayne Fella Morrison, 29, died at Royal Adelaide hospital on 26 September 2016, three days after the altercation with corrections…
Desk Report: Authorities are curbing small vehicles from plying on the Natore-Pabna highway following Saturday’s devastating road crash; mounting sufferings on locals, reports The Daily Star. Three-wheelers like easy bikes and CNG-run auto-rickshaws, and illegal human hauliers were being barred since yesterday, our local correspondent reports. Banpara Highway Police Outpost Sub-Inspector Habibur Rahman confirmed The…
AP: A French prosecutor said Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred is being held in police custody on suspicion of committing a rape in the town of Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera. Draguignan prosecutor’s office said Lamjarred, 33, was arrested on Sunday, without providing details. Police custody for rape-related cases can last up to 48 hours. Lamjarred…
Arab News: Israel reopened its only crossing for people with the Gaza Strip on Monday, a week after shutting it over violence along the border with the Palestinian enclave. The reopening, following days of relative calm, comes as Egypt holds talks with Palestinian officials as part of efforts to reach a long-term truce with Israel….
Kabir Humayun: A second-grader girl was violated by a septuagenarian in Gojanagar area in Nabinagar municipality of Brahmanbaria district on Friday. Kulsuma Begum, victim’s mother, filed a case with Nabinagar Police Station on the day of the incident, reports UNB. Till Sunday, police had still failed to arrest the main accused although they have detained…
NDTV: The army has ordered disciplinary action against Major Leetul Gogoi, who was detained by the police in Srinagar after a row in a hotel involving a Kashmiri woman. An army court of inquiry has held Major Gogoi guilty of “fraternising with a local in spite of instructions to the contrary and being away from…