Reuters: The Irish government must treat the U.S. president’s office with the respect it deserves when Donald Trump visits in November despite disagreeing with many of his policies, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said ahead of planned protests. Trump will travel to Ireland for the first time as president during a trip to Europe to attend…
Abrar Hussain: At least 400 prisoners have escaped from a jail in Libya’s capital on Sunday during the fighting that broke out between rival armed groups, according to a judiciary official yesterday as the United Nations called for the warring parties to reconcile. The inmates forced open the doors of the Ain Zara prison, located…
Sayeed Muhammad: Former foreign secretary of the UK and Brexit hardliner Boris Johnson fanned a renewed attack on the government yesterday, predicting “victory” for the European Union in its negotiations with London. Ever since quitting in July, Johnson has returned to his old job at the eurosceptic Daily Telegraph newspaper, writing columns regularly bashing Prime…
Reuters: Militants must be “cleaned out” of Idlib province in northwestern Syria, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday at the start of a visit to Damascus, according to Fars News. Iranian forces have backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s civil war. “All of Syrian territory must be preserved and all…
M Humayun Kabir: The Cabinet yesterday approved in principal the draft of Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2018 with a view to making it friendlier for workers. Cabinet Secretary Md Shafiul Alam briefed reporters after the meeting held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, reports BSS. “The amendment to the labour…
The Guardian, UK: Nepal has ordered a review of the way summit helicopter rescues are conducted after uncovering a multimillion-dollar scam in which climbers were pressured, sometimes by having their food spiked, to take costly flights down mountains. Insurance industry figures said the scam, which had been operating for more than five years, had caused…
BSS: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Civil Aviation and Tourism yesterday recommended to take legal actions against those hajj agencies who violated conditions set by the Religious Affairs Ministry. The committee also recommended canceling licenses of the hajj agencies for any kind of irregularities related to carrying hajj pilgrims. The recommendations came at a…
Kabir Humayun: A mobile court of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) fined dozens of jaywalkers at the police box point of Farmgate in Dhaka. Around 26 people were fined by Executive Magistrate Sarah Sadia Taznin at the busiest VIP road of the capital since yesterday morning, reports The Daily Star. All the traffic rule violators…
AFP: The world’s biggest statue is rising in a remote corner of India to honour an independence hero but it could quickly be outdone by a monument to a Hindu warrior king in the sea off Mumbai. In a burst of nationalist fervour, around one billion dollars is being spent on the two giant effigies,…
Reading Shashi Tharoor’s An Era of Empire.His evaluation of British rule appears simplistic, even biased by subjectivity.I am critical,like many, of the cruelties, racism, inequities and pludering of the wealth by the British duting the Company rule and later by the colonial rulers.But I also appreciate the important contributions made during the British Raj for…