Hossen Sohel: The Catholic church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting the stage for a showdown between the country’s biggest religion and the government, reports Reuters. Pope Francis, leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, is facing…
Arab News: Israel is gearing up for a visit from the Philippines president, who in the past compared his bloody anti-drug crackdown to Hitler and the Holocaust. A government statement Friday said Rodrigo Duterte will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tour the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial early next week. Duterte drew outrage in 2016…
A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, Professor of Television, Film, and Photography, Dhaka University: The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) involving seven South and South East Asian countries has just concluded its 4th summit in Nepal. What can the emerging economies like Bangladesh gain from this multilateral arrangement? In…
Times of Israel: The government of the United Arab Emirates used Israeli phone-hacking technology to spy on political and regional rivals as well as members of the media, with the Israeli company itself participating in the cyber attacks, The New York Times reported Friday. The Herzliya-based NSO Group uses its controversial Pegasus spyware program to…
Desk report: Baffled, hurt or indignant, many inside Myanmar are struggling to digest a week of opprobrium heaped on their country by the UN and even Facebook over the treatment of the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim group whose plight elicits little sympathy in the Buddhist-majority nation, reports the daily star. Last year’s military crackdown ostensibly…
Kabir Humayun: A case was filed against three people, including a bus driver and its owner, in connection with the death of a baby girl in an accident in Kushtia district town. Kushita Model Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Nasir Uddin said victim’s father Harunur Rashid filed the case against bus driver Khokon, its owner…
Wionews: Researchers from Google’s artificial intelligence department and Harvard University have come up with a model which will be capable of predicting earthquake aftershocks, the size and timing of the aftershocks and also the exact location using deep learning. The researchers published a paper earlier this week to exhibit how this dee leaning model would…
First Post: Looking at the depths of the Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm that has been raging on the planet for over 350 years, NASA scientists have found water above the planet’s deepest clouds. The team led by Gordon l Bjoraker, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space flight center in Maryland, US, were looking…
Reuters: A Cambodian court jailed an Australian filmmaker for six years on Friday after finding him guilty of espionage for flying a drone over an opposition party rally. James Ricketson, 69, was arrested last June after he was photographed flying the drone above the rally organized by the now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP)…
Desk report: More than 0.12 million tonnes of marine fish have been acquired from the Bay of Bengal in the last fiscal year, an increase by more than 11,000 tonnes over the previous year, reports the financial express. The collection from the Bangladesh water in the Bay of Bengal in 2017-18 reached 1, 22,088 tonnes…