Desk Report: Vehicles were seen moving slowly on Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Tangail highways on Friday following rush of home-bound people ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, creating suffering to people, reports the daily sun. According to highway police, the number of passenger vehicles and good-laden started to increase from early morning which created the traffic jam. A 15-km tailback…
Sayeed Muhammad: The funeral was attended by leaders from both sides of the aisle and representatives from SAARC nations yesterday. The mortal remains of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee were cremated at Smriti Sthal in New Delhi. Vajpayee, 93, passed away on Thursday, August 16, 2018, reports The Hindu. Indian and world leaders offered…
Al Arabiya: Saudi Arabia has contributed $100 million to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, more specifically supporting stabilization projects in areas liberated from the terrorist group in northeast Syria. This is the largest contribution to the coalition to date for these areas in specific, and it is an implementation of the pledge made by…
BSS: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has issued a set of directives asking the authorities concerned to take up different measures including keeping doors of the running buses always closed and stopping getting in and down of passengers without stoppage to ensure road safety in the capital. The directives came from a meeting of the…
Sayeed Muhammad: Wife of former commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Lt Col Hasinur Rahman has pleaded to the prime minister for directing law enforcers to find her husband, who has remained unaccounted for since on August 8. “Please bring my husband back. He [Hasniur] is innocent and not involved with anything. I beg…
Afsan Chowdhury, Researcher, Political Analyst: It will be disconcerting for the incumbent government to take a stand against school, college students involved with the movement for safe roads. The school, college students involved with the movement for road safety were below 18 years of age. So, it will be discomfiting for the government to take…
Reuters: Nine planes were forced to make emergency changes to their routes within Chilean, Argentine and Peruvian airspace on Thursday because of bomb threats issued to Chile’s civil aviation authority, its director general told journalists. At least two of the planes were operated by LATAM Airlines and three by Sky, a low-cost Chilean airline, the…
Maj Gen (retd) AK Mohammad Ali Shikder, Security Analyst Security of the state faced a threat following celebrity photographer Shahidul Alam’s provocative statement taking advantage of the road safety protests. When the state’s public security falls into a threat, the state security also finds itself in a threat. The activities that cause a state to…
M Humayun Kabir: Home-bound passengers have thronged in thousands at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka yesterday, the first day of Eid journey, on trains. While visiting the station, a large number of home-goers were seen waiting in queues in front of platforms to get standing tickets. Talking to the Daily Star, Sitangshu Chakraborty, station…
AFP: China’s Communist Party has sacked a dozen provincial and local officials and vowed to punish a pharmaceutical firm over a vaccine scandal that inflamed public fears over the safety of domestically produced drugs. The government has been struggling to shore up public confidence in the pharmaceutical sector following the revelation last month that a…