Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Executive Editor, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section: Local and international rights groups like International Labour Organisation (ILO), the European Union and the United States have continued in putting pressure on the government for reviewing the labour law. As a result, the cabinet on 3 September 2018 approved in principle the…
BDnews24: “Religious preaching will not work; appeasing big brothers will not work. The most effective way is the extermination of drug suspects — the loss of life in real sense,” Rahman said at an event in the port city on Tuesday, about four months after the law-enforcement agencies started a drug purge leading to the…
Reuters: A Malaysian court sentenced an American to death by hanging on Tuesday after finding him guilty of murdering his ex-wife, his lawyer said. Gerald Wayne Mickelson, 63, was accused of strangling Guilda Mickelson, 62, during an argument at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur in November 2016. Kuala Lumpur High Court rejected Mickelson’s plea of…
Reuters: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew amnesty for an opposition senator involved in a failed coup 15 years ago and ordered his arrest, in what would be the second detention of a lawmaker critical of him. Antonio Trillanes, Duterte’s most vocal opponent, has accused him of hiding wealth, and has supported petitions to…
BBC: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has defended a decision to have a plane make an extra flight so she can spend less time away from her baby. Ms Ardern, who still breastfeeds her baby, is headed to the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru for a day on Wednesday. The air force plane that…
Desk Report: Pakistan on Sunday kicked off the “Plant for Pakistan” campaign by Prime Minister Imran Khan who in the drive planted a sapling in the country’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The campaign “Ten Billion Trees Tsunami” aims at combating the effects of climate change by planting over ten billion trees across the country during the five-year…
Desk Report: Police yesterday arrested supervisor of the bus on which a mentally challenged woman was raped at Bangabandhu Bridge east end in the district on Thursday night . The supervisor, Md Ershad, 40, of Benukurshia village in Kalihati upazila, was arrested from his house. Later, police produced him before a Tangail court yesterday seeking…
Hossen Sohel: Aurora Prize Laureate Kyaw Hla Aung, a noted lawyer activist from Myanmar yesterday announced he would donate his $ 1 million award money towards humanitarian relief work among Rohingya refugees, reports PTI. He was given the award this year for his fight against injustice and advocating on behalf of the Rohingya people, PTI…
C.P. Surendran/ Gulf News No Indian government in recent times has a more crying need for critical and creative brains What must Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi do? Last week, the Reserve Bank of India reported that 99.3 per cent worth of cancelled big denomination notes last November in what is referred to as demonetisation…
Reuters: Police in the South Pacific island of Nauru briefly held a New Zealand journalist at a police station and canceled her permit to cover a regional leaders’ conference on Tuesday, because she met refugees without seeking permission, the government and broadcaster TVNZ said. Nauru closely controls access for foreign journalists and is particularly sensitive…