Kabir Humayun: A suspected robber was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police personnel in Ongkurpur area of Baliakandi upazila in the district on Sunday. Deceased Badu Sheikh, 40, hailing from Gobinadapur village was an accused in seven robbery cases, reports UNB. Hasina Begum, officer-in-charge of Baliakandi Police Station, said a team of police conducted a…
Reuters: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday declared that foreigners will not be granted visas to live in the giant Forest City real estate project on the country’s southern tip, a major threat to the marketing strategy for the development. It is not his first broadside against the plan by Chinese developer Country Garden…
Kabir Humayun: Rejecting a Nepal newspaper report over the investigation findings carried out by the Nepal authority on the US-Bangla aircraft crash, US-Bangla Airlines said the report was ‘fictitious’ and ‘irreverent’. Talking to The Daily Star over the exclusive report of Kathmandu Post, Kamrul Islam, general manager (marketing support and public relations) of US-Bangla Airlines…
Desk Report: The country’s gross investment is projected to exceed its gross national savings in this fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, apparently due to rise in the public sector investment, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reports Financial Express. The gross investment is projected to stand at 32.3 per cent of the gross domestic product…
Desk report: The government is now aiming to train thousands of Madrasah teachers in information and communication technology (ICT) and modern Arabic to increase their employability overseas, especially to tap further the Middle East job market, reports the financial express. The Ministry of Education has recently chalked out a project, under which 19,200 Madrasah teachers…
Sayeed Muhammad: Rama Chowdhury, one of the 200,000 Biranganas of the Liberation War, has been suffering old age complications at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Chittagong Medical College Hospital. Parts of her body swelled up due to shortage of blood, with blood pressure gone out of control, making it concerning to revive to life, Alauddin…
Reuters: Iran and Syria signed a deal for military cooperation in a meeting between the defense ministers of the two countries in Damascus, the Tasnim news agency reported on Monday. Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami traveled to Damascus on Sunday for a two-day visit, meeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and senior military officials, Tasnim reported….
Big Think: For nearly four billion years, Earth and the Moon have been inseparable as they’ve journeyed together through the cosmic void. It’s our only permanent satellite we’ll ever know. But new research has unearthed (…unmooned?) evidence that our planet occasionally captures “mini-moons” every once in a while. These tiny asteroids zoom around our planet…
BSS: The government has directed owners in city to beautify their buses with a paint job by September 30. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said it to reporters after a Road Transport Advisory Council meeting in secretariat on Monday afternoon (August 27). In the meeting, decision has been made to enforce traffic law…
Dr. Delwar Hossain, Professor of International Relations, Dhaka University: Myanmar literally buried the report prepared by Annan Commission formed to probe Rohingya massacre. When the commission was constituted, the crackdown on the Rohinga minorities was fanned. Most of the Rohingya refugees are now given shelter in Bangladesh. If the Annan Commission’s recommendation has to be…