Arab News: Police in Sudan have rescued nearly 100 people, 85 of them minors, after breaking up a human trafficking network in the northeast African country last month, Interpol said Monday. Two men and twelve women were arrested and around $20,000 of suspected ransom money was seized in the operation at several locations in Khartoum…
Desk Report: A good number of farmers in Shibganj, Sherpur, Shajahanpur, Sariakanndi, Sonatola and Dhunot upazilas of the district are taking preparation for the cultivation of early winter cauliflowers, reports Financial Express. Growers’ sources said they have started growing the winter delicacy with the expectation to harvest it from the first week of November. The…
Bimal Mirwani, Journalist from Hong Kong and an avid reader /Seven Billion Today This poor dog was abandoned at a shelter and was seen crying and shaking as it realised what its owner had done. How can people be so cruel. Would you just abandon your child like that? It really irritates me when people…
Arab News: Israel’s Meteor Festival was meant to bring together indie groups from around the world in what organizers billed as a Woodstock-like “cutting edge musical journey that surpasses borders and distorts time and space.” Instead, some 20 acts, including headliner Lana Del Rey, withdrew at the last minute amid apparent pressure from a Palestinian-led…
Reuters: British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party faces a “catastrophic split” if she persists with her so-called Chequers proposals on Brexit and 80 or more of her lawmakers are prepared to vote against the proposals, a former junior minister said. Steve Baker, a former junior Brexit minister who resigned over May’s Brexit proposals, told…
Hossen Sohel: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, eyeing an historic extended term, reaffirmed yesterday his resolve to revise the nation’s post-war, pacifist constitution and said he hoped his party could submit a proposal to parliament later this year, reports Reuters. Abe, who returned to office in December 2012 pledging to bolster defenses and reboot the…
M Humayun Kabir: Panic gripped the teachers and guardians as five students of two schools in the district town reportedly remained missing since Sunday morning. The missing students are Shihad Uddin, a class IX student of Poura Preparatory High School, HK Galib Uddin, Shahriar Kamal Akib, Safin Nur, students of class VIII and Syed Nakib,…
BSS: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Bangladesh today signed agreements for $350 million in loan and $7 million in grant for a project to develop two power lines in support of Bangladesh’s national target of electricity for all by 2021. Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Kazi Shofiqul Azam, and ADB Country…
Slash Gear: Xiaomi may be best known for its dirt-cheap smartphones with flagship features, but as far as JerryRigEverything is concerned, it’s not always a hit when it comes to one critical factor: durability. While it might be too easy to attribute it to a choice of cheap materials to keep costs down, YouTube Zack…
Reuters: Volkswagen went on trial on Monday to face investors seeking 9.2 billion euros ($10.6 billion) in compensation, arguing the carmaker should have informed shareholders earlier about its diesel emissions scandal. Shareholders representing 1,670 claims are seeking compensation for a slide in Volkswagen’s (VW) share price triggered by the scandal, which broke in September 2015…