Times of Israel: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told President Reuven Rivlin that his country would now only buy weapons from Israel due to its lack of restrictions, as dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the president’s Jerusalem residence to protest the controversial visit. According to a Hebrew-language statement, Duterte praised Israel for helping the…
Desk Report: The embankment was built to protect a Kuthi Bari (bungalow) once owned by Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, on the bank of the Padma River. Part of the Kuthibari embankment in Kushtia, built with a cost of around Tk 200 crore, has collapsed mere two months after its construction. Bangladesh government built the…
Abrar Hussain: The devastating fire that destroyed Brazil’s historical and most important museum has been attributed to funding cuts and inadequate maintenance. The blaze at the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro began at about 7.30pm local time and raged into the night. Although there were no reports of injuries, senior staff…
Desk Report: Net foreign investment at Dhaka Stock Exchange dropped for fifth consecutive month in August with the foreign turnover seeing the biggest drop in four years over investors concerns over national elections and its possible impact on financial sectors. In August, the foreign investors sold shares worth Tk 181.76 crore against their purchase of shares…
Abrar Hussain: The announcement of Steve Bannon headlining the New Yorker Festival in October has recently caused a storm of controversy, including a Pulitzer-winning writer complaining, guests pulling out and the invitation swiftly withdrawn. The magazine’s editor, David Remnick, first told the New York Times he would interview the former Trump aide and chief White…
Desk Report: The members of customs intelligence have seized a huge quantity of restricted and illegally imported medicine from a Hajj flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka, reports the financial express. The medicine, worth 16 million, was found in the Hajj flight that came in from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia around 5:00 pm,…
AFP: Britain apologized Monday for the “shameful way” it evicted residents of the disputed Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean but insisted Mauritius was wrong to bring the increasingly bitter dispute to the UN’s top court. Hearings opened Monday before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where judges are listening to arguments over…
Hossen Sohel: Banks are familiar with unscrupulous borrowers who tend to secure loans by offering some piece of land property as collateral from multiple lenders, reports UNB. A tricky situation arises when a certain bank wants to seize collateral to recoup its losses from defaulting borrower and suddenly finds out that multiple lenders have the…
Ramzy Baroud/Middle East Monitor Israel wants to change the rules of the game entirely. With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades, constituted the legal and political foundation for the so-called ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict.’ While US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has, thus far, been…
Sayeed Muhammad: BNP has alleged that leaders and activists of the party and its front and associate organisations had been arrested indiscriminately across the country in a week under cases filed under special law. BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the allegation at a press briefing at the party’s central office in…