Kabir Humayun: Newly elected mayors of Rajshahi and Sylhet city corporations AHM Khairuzzman Liton and Ariful Haque Chowdhury took oath of office yesterday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath at a ceremony held at the Shapla Hall of her office. Later, Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain administered the oath…
Sayeed Muhammad: A Natore court has sent the driver of ‘Challenger Paribahan’ bus Shamim Hossain to one-day remand, granting bail to helper Abdus Samad over the death of 15 people in a road crash. Senior Judicial Magistrate Sultan Mahmud passed the order after Sub-inspector Tariqul Islam of Banpara Highway Police, also the investigation officer of…
AFP: A Japanese team working to develop a “space elevator” will conduct a first trial this month, blasting off a miniature version on satellites to test the technology. The test equipment, produced by researchers at Shizuoka University, will hitch a ride on an H-2B rocket being launched by Japan’s space agency from southern island of…
Reuters: Those wondering why Swedish politics are set to lurch to the right in Sunday’s election need look no further than Ljusnarsberg, a tiny central county of dense pine forests and glistening lakes. Many inhabitants of this once-booming region are uneasy about asylum seekers after a large number arrived here in 2015. Some also feel…
Desk Report: A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz has been found 13 years after being stolen, according to US authorities. They were taken from a Minnesota museum in 2005, when someone broke in through a window late at night.Three others pairs of ruby slippers worn by Garland…
9Gag: According to The Siberian Times, scientists from Russia’s Northern-Eastern Federal University alongside the South Korean SOOAM Biotech Research Foundation are opening a research lab in the Siberian city of Yakutsk. The $5.9 million lab will be a “world class paleo-genetic scientific hub”. Experts say the centre will aim “to study extinct animals from living…
Hossen Sohel: A major airport that was cut off when a huge typhoon smashed through its sole access road was being evacuated yesterday, as Japan grappled with devastation caused by its most powerful storm in a quarter of a century, reports AFP. Boats were ferrying stranded passengers from Kansai International Airport — one of the…
The Straits Times: Japan has acknowledged for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck in March 2011, triggering a tsunami that killed some 18,000 people and the world’s worst nuclear…
Advocate Mohammad Rayhan Uddin, Supreme Court of Bangladesh & Judges’ Court, Chittagong Though legal education is ancient, it is a prestigious one. At present, the demand for LL.B. (Honors), LL.M. yet increased especially since the separation of judiciary from the executive organ. There is a declaration that only those who have legal knowledge are entitled…
NDTV: Sacked Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested yesterday by the Gujarat CID in connection with a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest a man, police said. Mr Bhatt and seven others, including some former policemen attached with the Banaskantha Police, were initially detained for questioning in the case. Shortly after…