Reuters: A junior British minister held talks with his Iranian counterpart in Tehran on Saturday, Iran’s television reported, the first visit by a UK minister since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers. Britain and other European signatories are trying to keep the nuclear deal alive, despite Trump’s reimposition of…
Afsan Chowdhury, Researcher, Political Analyst: Procuring 150,000 electronic voting machines (EVMs) is a politically sensitive issue. The Election Commission should have talked to the political parties before taking the decision to use EVMs for the next general election. Is there any fundamental difference between the former and the current Election Commission? Should not the Election…
Sayeed Muhammad: A diving squad has recovered the bodies of three people who were missing after a boat capsized in the Chalan Beel of Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila, with two others still untraced. The divers recovered the bodies of two women and a child, said Chatmohar Upazila UNO Sarkar Ashim Kumar, reports The Financial Express citing…
Hossen Sohel: A Banglade-shi origin UK man who plotted to kill Prime Minister Theresa May in a suicide attack was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years. Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 21, from north London, was convicted last month of preparing acts of terrorism, reports BBC. Rahman had planned to detonate…
Anadolu Agency: The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on China to release the detained Uighurs in Xinjiang, an autonomous region in the country. The report, adopted by the committee at its 96th session between August 6-30, said the committee is “concerned” by the Chinese legislation having a “broad definition of…
Arafat Hasan: Detectives are set to submit a charge-sheet accusing six people in the case filed over the death of two college students in a road accident in the capital’s Airport Road which had triggered nationwide protests. “We have already completed investigation into the case regarding the death of two college students in a road…
The Express Tribune: Myanmar’s military has released 75 child soldiers, a UN agency said, its first discharge this year as part of a gradual process to end decades of forced recruitment of underage fighters. There are no concrete figures on how many children are still among the estimated 500,000 troops that serve in Myanmar’s military,…
AFP: Dutch police were investigating Saturday a suspected terror attack at Amsterdam’s Central Station, in which two people were stabbed before the knifeman was shot by police. The assailant was identified as an 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit. “We are seriously taking into account that there was a terrorist motive,” Amsterdam police…
Raj Abrar: In yet another incident of a minister’s offspring being sued for murder, Mohitur Rahman Shanto, the son of religious affairs minister, has been named as the prime accused in the case filed over the death of a Mymensingh Jubo League leader. Kotwali Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mahmudul Islam confirmed the development to…
Raj Abrar: BNP promised yesterday to continue its movement to “oust” the current government in order to “restore” democracy and people’s rights. “We’re taking a pledge on this day of our founding anniversary to continue our struggle to remove the monstrous government, and free our leader Khaleda Zia for the restoration of democracy,” said BNP…