The Guardian: Under a hot September sky and to the incongruous strains of Bad Moon Rising – not to mention those of the even less podium-friendly Another One Bites the Dust – Simon Yates completed the final few laps of his first Grand Tour victory in Madrid on Sunday night. At 7.48pm local time, after…
Andrew Hammond, Associate at LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics/Gulf News With the West-Russia rapprochement looking uncertain, Moscow moves to warm ties with Asian powers Moscow and Beijing ended today in the Russian Far East, the Trans-Baikal region, one of the largest war games since the height of the Cold War. The military…
Kabir Humayun: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday said the upcoming parliamentary elections can be held in a fair manner under the partisan government only if all political parties, Election Commission and other stakeholders play a positive role. The corruption watchdog came up with the comments based on findings of a study on good governance and…
Desk Report: Over 25,000 people of some 5,081 families, victims of devastating erosion of mighty river Padma, have sought rehabilitation from the government and authorities concerned. More 40,000 people of 8,000 families are still under the threat of erosion, Water Development Board (WDB) sources said, reports The Asian Age. Rejecting the claim of government sources,…
BBC: Zimbabwe has launched a crowdfunding campaign to deal with an outbreak of cholera that has so far killed 25 people, mostly in the capital, Harare. New Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube sent an appeal on Twitter, sharing a mobile payment account number. An emergency has been declared and public gatherings banned in Harare to prevent…
Desk Report: Tamim Iqbal’s heavily bandaged left hand stuck out of a blue sling as he sat on the dressing room balcony staring off into space. The international match unfolding in front of him — one that he was at the centre of just an hour and a half ago in hot sunshine before being…
Abrar Hussain: As US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods today, a widely-read Chinese tabloid warned that the Asian powerhouse will not be content to “only play defense in an escalating trade war with the United States”. In an intensifying row that has jolted global financial markets in the…
Desk Report: Creating enough jobs, improving investment climate and ensuring financial stability would be major challenges for Bangladesh to meet her post-LDC (least developing country) requirements, opined economists and businesses, reports The Financial Express. For a sustainable transition to the developing country status, the country must seriously focus on ICT (information and communication technology) sector,…
As women and children from Bangladesh are being trafficked to India continuously, Civil Society members called for coordination at both government and non-governmental levels of the two countries on urgent basis for combating the crime. “At the moment, about 200 to 400 women and children from Bangladesh are being trafficked to India each month. It…
Desk report: The government is in a hurry to get rural infrastructure development projects involving substantial volume of funds approved by the Planning Commission (PC) before the forthcoming national elections, officials said on Saturday, reports The Financial Express. They said the Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) alone has sought approval for nine projects meant…