M Humayun Kabir: Rejecting the government’s decision to raise their minimum monthly wage to Tk 8,000, the workers of ready-made garment factories staged demonstration in Dhaka yesterday. During the demo, they demanded a minimum monthly wage Tk 16,000 instead of Tk 8,000 for the 4.4 million garment workers. Several hundred workers led by Garments Sramik…
Maj (retd) Md Akhtaruzzaman : Khelade Zia has said she is not appearing to the court; no matter what verdict awaits her. This is a right decision of hers and it cannot be violated. Justice will not be served at the court which is loyal to the government, something that is clear as crystal. A Comilla…
Abrar Hussain: Justice Ranjan Gogoi has been appointed the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), according to a statement by the country’s Ministry of Law on Thursday. He is to assume office on October 3 after the retirement of Justice Dipak Misra. Justice Gogoi will have a little over one year before he demits office…
Hossen Sohel: At least one person died and 12 more were injured after a series of gas explosions wreaked havoc near Boston in the US. Gas explosions set fire to between 60 and 80 homes and business in the suburbs on Thursday evening. Teenager Leonel Rondon, 18, from Lawrence was killed when a chimney from…
M Humayun Kabir: A leading US portal Politico reported that BNP has hired the services of two US-based firms to lobby the Trump administration on its behalf. However, several senior BNP leaders denied the authenticity of the report. The report published on September 10 read, “Abdul Sattar of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has hired Blue…
Reuters: Yellow flowered vines crawl through empty window frames and up crumbling brick walls. Electricity poles are slanting along the road, cables hanging dead from their arms. The sign for Malakal’s city council is riddled with bullet holes. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel groups may well have signed a peace agreement on Wednesday…
Nahian Arefin: Almost 150 Muslims protested in Mumbai, India yesterday, demanding an end to the detention of thousands of minority Uighur Muslims in camps of China and political indoctrination center in its Xinjiang territory. The protestors chanted “Down with China” during the protest held outside a mosque after Jumma prayers (Friday noon prayer), reports AFP….
Hossen Sohel: Austr-alian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s own party defied his wishes yesterday by nominating a former diplomat instead of a female candidate to run in a crucial by-election for a seat that belonged to the man he deposed in a leadership coup, reports Reuters. Morrison’s Liberal party, the senior partner in a Liberal-National coalition,…
Reuters: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez published the results of plagiarism tests on his doctoral thesis on Friday in response to pressure over alleged academic misdemeanors which have buffeted the country’s politics. Sanchez, who took advantage of a long-running corruption scandal to topple his predecessor in a confidence vote in June, threatened to take legal…
Reuters: The bodies of 21 people thought to be migrants trying to reach Spain have washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean this month, the U.N. migration agency said in statement on Friday. The latest deaths bring the total of Mediterranean migrant deaths this year to 1,586, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said….