BSS: The Cabinet yesterday gave final approval to the draft of “Bangladesh Shishu Academy Act, 2018” and “Motor Cycle Shilpa Unnayan Neetimala, 2018”. The approval was given in the weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary…
Hossen Sohel: Seven people were injured in a knife attack in central Paris yesterday but police said that terrorism was not suspected, reports Stuff. Two British tourists were among those injured, broadcaster BFMTV and Le Parisien newspaper reported. Authorities were trying to determine if the attacker, who was arrested, is among the seven injured. An…
BSS: Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia has undertaken 15 programmes to legalize undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers there. “We have undertaken various programmes to create scope for undocumented workers to get legalization in Malaysia,” Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam BSc said yesterday. Replying to a question from treasury bench member M Shafiqul Islam…
NY Times: There is no crystal ball in “The Simpsons” writers’ room, but you’d be forgiven for wondering. Over its nearly 30-year run, the series about the world’s most famous animated family has alluded to many real-life events long before they’ve actually happened: the Trump presidency, the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, 9/11 and,…
Abrar Hussain: Austr-alia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s maiden address to parliament yesterday was mired by a poll that claimed he may soon be out of a job. Morrison – an evangelical Christian and former head of Australian tourism – stepped up to a boisterous first session of questions with the future of his own…
Desk Report: Lack of service roads, underpasses, overpasses and alternative transports is an important reason behind fatal highway accidents involving illegal three-wheeler, slow-moving and non-motorised vehicles in the country, road safety campaigners and experts say, reports New Age. Reckless driving and lack of awareness on the part of the road users also play an important…
Kabir Humayun: President Abdul Hamid is scheduled to hand over ‘UGC Gold Medal’ among 35 university teachers today for their fundamental research works and publications. Among them, 18 teachers will be given the award for the year 2016 and 17 teachers for 2017 at a programme at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital, reports…
AFP: Russia will launch the biggest military drills in its history involving 300,000 troops as well as Chinese soldiers, in a move NATO denounced as “exercising large-scale conflict”. The week-long deployment alongside Chinese and Mongolian armies dubbed “Vostok-2018” (East-2018) will start in eastern Siberia today. It comes at a time of escalating tensions between Moscow and…
Desk Report: The government has set a target to produce 500,000 motorcycles by 2021 and 1.0 million by 2027 in the draft of ‘Motorcycle Industry Development Policy-2018’, reports the financial express. The cabinet approved the draft policy during its meeting on Monday at the secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Cabinet Secretary…
Gary Seidman, Salt Lake City, Utah/UNHCR(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Founder Samira Harnish, an Iraqi immigrant, is named Nansen Award regional finalist from the Americas. The bill was more than US$27,000 and, having recently arrived from Iraq, she had no insurance to cover it. “It’s a really big amount. I can’t afford it,” she…