M Humayun Kabir: The Dhaka University administration has finally met with the Dhaka University Central Student Union (DUCSU), hall student councils and leaders from ‘active’ student groups over the issue of DUCSU polls. The initiative was taken to hold the meeting after a case was filed last Thursday over ignoring the DUCSU elections, reports bdnews24.com….
Desk Report: Thousands of weavers based in Mirpur Benarasi Palli will shift to a new site, some 70 kilometres off the densest Dhaka city, reports The Financial Express. The move is a part of reviving the glory of the handloom industry and also freeing up space in the metropolis. As planned, the weavers would find…
Reuters: China on Sunday accused Taiwan’s spy agencies of stepping up efforts to steal intelligence with the aim of “infiltration” and “sabotage”, and warned the island against further damaging already strained cross-strait ties. The relevant agencies in Taiwan must end such activities immediately, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing An Fengshan, a spokesman of…
Reuters: Two people died, a dozen more were hospitalized and hundreds others sought medical assistance after suspected drug overdoses at a music festival in Sydney, the police said. A 23-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman died on Saturday after collapsing at the Defqon.1 festival, the police said. Two of the 13 hospitalized people remain in…
Desk Report: Wearing gloves and masks and holding brooms in hands, several hundred students yesterday carried out a cleaning campaign at Rabindra Sarobar in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area to generate public awareness for keeping the country clean, reports The Daily Star. The students, from different educational institutions in the capital, collected trash including plastic bottles, polythene…
Raj Abrar: Road access to Gaibandha remained suspended for the rest of the country as transport workers in the district enforced an indefinite strike yesterday, protesting the proposed Road Transport Act-2018. The workers have been demanding scrapping the bill, which has the provision of death sentence for drivers if they deliberately kill while driving. The…
Al Jazeera: Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they have signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations to airlift critically ill patients abroad for treatment. The Houthi-run Saba news agency reported on Saturday that the memorandum, signed between Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf Abdullah and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, Lise Grande, would include transporting…
BBC: A Renoir painting looted by the Nazis during World War II has been returned to its rightful owner, New York federal officials announced Wednesday. The painting, “Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin,” painted in 1919 by Pierre Auguste Renoir, was stolen by Nazis from a bank vault in Paris in 1941, said a news release…
Kabir Humayun: Shus-hashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a civil society platform, blasted the Election Commission (EC) for sending the proposal hurriedly to the government to use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the upcoming national polls. “The Election Commission is working like a rocket to include EVM system in the RPO,” said Shujan President M Hafizuddin Khan….
Desk Report: Unhealthy competition among bus companies and reckless driving are still continuing leading to frequent road accidents in the capital, reports The daily sun. Sources said efforts to bring discipline in traffic management are yet to succeed mainly due to the recklessness of drivers and helplessness of police in controlling traffic chaos. Buses are…