Arafat Hasan: At least 52 people died and several others injured after a Telangana bus fell from a narrow road into a gorge in Telangana’s Jagyat district yesterday morning. However, rescuers have warned that the actual toll is not yet clear. The bus belonging to Jagtyal depot of the state-owned road transport corporation was on…
M Humayun Kabir: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said that the election-time government will be formed in mid-October. Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, made the disclosure at a press conference at the Secretariat, reports The Daily Star. The size of the government will be similar to that of the last…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age : Mohammad Ali Jinnah died a lonely man, sometime between his departure from Ziarat and arrival in Karachi on 11 September 1948. There is yet the old argument that had he lived, Pakistan would be a truly democratic, perhaps even secular country. Unfortunately, it is an argument which…
Hossen Sohel: At least 35 people were killed on Monday and hundreds injured when a gas tanker exploded in northern Nigerian state of Nasarawa and started a blaze, the state emergency agency said. The State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) official said the accident happened at a petrol station along the Lafia-Makurdi road linking the capital…
Hossen Sohel: Argentina interim coach Lionel Scaloni has said that the Albiceleste are keeping the number ten shirt reserved for Lionel Messi as they hold on to hope that their genius playmaker will once again don the shirt when he returns to the national team fold. The diminutive playmaker has not had the best of…
Muhammad Ali Bukhari from Toronto : It was only USD $27 – at current conversion of Bangladeshi Taka 2,262.06 – still a small amount of money compared to its originality. But the idea of engaging that meagre amount elevated Microcredit Pioneer Dr. Muhammad Yunus to the world stage, and present Bangladesh as a country of tremendous…
BBC: A key crossing point between one-time bitter enemies Ethiopia and Eritrea has reopened after a border war shut it more than 20 years ago. The leaders of the two countries witnessed the reopening at Burre, as part of their ongoing rapprochement. This will give landlocked Ethiopia access to the port of Assab. Another border…
Taj Hashmi, Professor of Security Studies at Austin Peay State University : Since his Gestapo-style abduction, rather than arrest, Shahidul Alam of Bangladesh is no longer a stranger to people, well-beyond the boundaries of his country. Twenty-odd Bangladeshi law-enforcers – all in plainclothes – stormed into his house, destroyed the cc cameras on the premises,…
Arab News: The Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar threatened to “spread” war to neighbouring Algeria if it continues to conduct regular military incursions in Libyan territory. In a video that circulated on social media, Haftar says that “war could be spread, in moments, to the Algerian border” and that “Libyan forces are ready…
Arafat Hasan: Russia has launched its biggest military exercise since the Cold War, involving about 300,000 service personnel, according to a report by the BBC. China will also be taking part in the exercise, titled ‘Vostok-2018’, sending 3,200 troops with many Chinese armored vehicles and aircraft. Mongolia is also sending some units. The last Russian…