Desk Report: A Dhaka court yesterday placed BNP Joint Secretary General Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel on a five-day remand in connection with a case filed over attacking a prison van near High Court area and snatching accused in January this year, reports the daily star. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate AHM Tuaha passed the order after DB…
Reuters: More than a quarter of a million people will vote on Sunday for the next leader of the tropical Maldives in an election criticized internationally for a lack of transparency and suppression of government critics. President Abdulla Yameen is seeking a second five-year term in the Indian Ocean archipelago, a popular high-end tourist destination…
Reuters: Any deal on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union must ensure that a hard border in Northern Ireland is avoided, Manfred Weber, leader of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament told a German newspaper yesterday. “This is no normal border, a few years ago we had violence and deaths in Northern Ireland….
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Executive Editor, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : Social media brings people together. The user groups of social media often forge imagined communities where otherwise isolated users can become connected and share information. In isolation, these groups become ideological echo chambers that amplify extreme ideas with no dissenting opinions. Furthermore,…
Reuters: Police in Malaysia are investigating a case of alcohol poisoning that killed at least 21 people, with dozens more hospitalised, most of them citizens of Asian nations, officials said on Wednesday. Cheap, homemade liquor is popular among poor, migrant workers in Muslim-majority Malaysia, which has high taxes on alcohol. A total of 57…
Utpal Dutta, Editorial Assistant, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : An individual along with the community necessarily enjoy and must have the right to coherent their speech, opinion and ideas. “Freedom of Expression’, a widely used notion includes people’s act of pursuing, greeting and imparting ideas and information no matter the media they use….
H. M. Nazrul Islam ,Contributing Editor, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : There have been whispers over the past few months about a bombshell from Justice SK Sinha, which has finally come true. The so called bombshell has arrived in the form of a book titled “A Broken Dream: Rule of Law, Human Rights…
UNB: Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque will continue for another year as senior secretary of the government under a contractual appointment with effect from December 31 this year or the date of his fresh joining. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette notification in this regard on Wednesday. In July this year, Haque was…
Sayeed Muhammad: A Turkish court yesterday jailed pending trial 24 people involved in protests over work conditions at Istanbul’s new airport last week, Reuters reports referring to broadcaster CNN Turk. The airport is a centerpiece of a 15-year construction boom under President Tayyip Erdogan and it has an initial planned capacity of 90 million passengers…
Hossen Sohel: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has agreed to shut one of the country’s main missile testing and launch sites, says the South’s President Moon Jae-in, reports BBC. After meeting in Pyongyang, the two leaders “agreed on a way to achieve denuclearisation,” said Mr Moon. The agreement was described by Mr Kim as a…