Desk Report: Bangladesh national team batting consultant Neil McKenzie on Monday said that he was very much impressed with the talents in the team and wanted to add more value to this country’s cricket. The 42-year old former South African batsman, who was appointed as the batting consultant of Bangladesh cricket team for the limited-over…
Russia Today: Nearly a million Ukrainians are leaving the country every year, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin, warning the country will face severe labor shortages in the years to come. “We are really in a catastrophic situation with a million Ukrainians leaving every year,” the minister said in an interview with Ukrainian ICTV….
The Japan Times: While Japanese society and the media continue to exhort — nay plead — with women to find marriage partners, 60 percent of eligible women say they cannot feel relaxed enough to get interested in renai (love relationships), according to a Yomeishu survey picked up by cocolini jp. As sad as it sounds,…
Prof Dr Mizanur Rahman, Vice Chancellor of Jagannath University: The general election is just around the corner. If a dialogue for establishing a system for a non-partisan and neutral government starts within this short period, it will never end. Time is now at a premium to hold talks over such an issue. I do not…
BBC: Public Health England is urging people over 30 to take an online test to find out their heart age, which indicates if they are at increased risk of suffering a heart attack or a stroke. They predict about 80% of heart attacks and strokes in people under 75 could be prevented if heart health…
Reuters: Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant Haqqani network, one of the most powerful and feared groups in the Afghan insurgency, has died after a long illness, the Taliban said on Tuesday. Haqqani, who founded the network in the 1970s, gave up operational leadership of the group some years ago to his son Sirajuddin, who…
Reuters: From a distance, the volunteers cleaning up a clogged Bangkok waterway could be mistaken for Scouts, but the group, wearing yellow foulards and blue hats, are part of a volunteer program started by Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66. The “Volunteer Spirit” scheme, which officially began in 2017, has created a new army of civilians…
Desk Report: Bangladesh coach Jamie Day said on Monday that qualifying from the group stage would be their primary target in the 12th SAFF Championship that begins in Dhaka today. Hosts Bangladesh will begin their campaign when they take on Bhutan in their first Group A match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. The other two…
Sayeed Muhammad: A local think-tank called Defence Research Forum or DefRes in its Facebook page posted a 14-second video, in which Pakistani experts are seen praising Bangladesh. One of the speakers, as seen in the video, in a talk-show, was comparing Bangladesh’s development to Pakistani’s as he said: “If the PTI can do things properly,…
BBC: A woman has been arrested in the southern state of Tamil Nadu for calling India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “fascist”. Sofia Lois made the remark when she saw BJP politician Tamilisai Soundararajan, who then filed a police complaint. The incident occurred on Monday at an airport in the state and a video of…