Reuters: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew amnesty for an opposition senator involved in a failed coup 15 years ago and ordered his arrest, in what would be the second detention of a lawmaker critical of him. Antonio Trillanes, Duterte’s most vocal opponent, has accused him of hiding wealth, and has supported petitions to…
BBC: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has defended a decision to have a plane make an extra flight so she can spend less time away from her baby. Ms Ardern, who still breastfeeds her baby, is headed to the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru for a day on Wednesday. The air force plane that…
Desk Report: Pakistan on Sunday kicked off the “Plant for Pakistan” campaign by Prime Minister Imran Khan who in the drive planted a sapling in the country’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The campaign “Ten Billion Trees Tsunami” aims at combating the effects of climate change by planting over ten billion trees across the country during the five-year…
Desk Report: Police yesterday arrested supervisor of the bus on which a mentally challenged woman was raped at Bangabandhu Bridge east end in the district on Thursday night . The supervisor, Md Ershad, 40, of Benukurshia village in Kalihati upazila, was arrested from his house. Later, police produced him before a Tangail court yesterday seeking…
Hossen Sohel: Aurora Prize Laureate Kyaw Hla Aung, a noted lawyer activist from Myanmar yesterday announced he would donate his $ 1 million award money towards humanitarian relief work among Rohingya refugees, reports PTI. He was given the award this year for his fight against injustice and advocating on behalf of the Rohingya people, PTI…
C.P. Surendran/ Gulf News No Indian government in recent times has a more crying need for critical and creative brains What must Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi do? Last week, the Reserve Bank of India reported that 99.3 per cent worth of cancelled big denomination notes last November in what is referred to as demonetisation…
Reuters: Police in the South Pacific island of Nauru briefly held a New Zealand journalist at a police station and canceled her permit to cover a regional leaders’ conference on Tuesday, because she met refugees without seeking permission, the government and broadcaster TVNZ said. Nauru closely controls access for foreign journalists and is particularly sensitive…
Desk Report: Ten-year-old Liyon Roy, who put his own life at risk while trying to save a parrot chick, is passing his days in hospital bed amid lack of proper treatment. Liyon, a Class VI student at Sarkarpara Government Primary School in Thakurgaon municipality, is suffering from neurological complications. He has been staying at Thakurgaon…
NDTV: As Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gets ready to testify before the US Congress on September 5, reports have surfaced that he is personally weighing in on high-profile decisions to ban controversial accounts, frustrating some employees. According to a report in Wall Street Journal on Monday, Mr Dorsey overruled a decision by his staff to…
Abrar Hussain: Myan-mar has received worldwide condemnation after it handed down a 7-year jail sentence to two Reuters journalists while they were investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims. Reuters has condemned it as a travesty of justice and severe blow to press freedom in the south-east Asian country. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo,…