A South Korean fashion and cosmetics firm has stirred controversy with a facial mask featuring Kim Jong-un. The firm says it has sold more than 25,000 “unification moisture nuclear masks” since June. However many South Korean stores have halted sales amid a public backlash and concerns over the masks’ legality. The so-called “nuke masks” were…
BSS Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday came down heavily on BNP and its election partners for giving nominations to the persons convicted for corruption, militancy and war crimes saying it seemed that they would like to take the country’s politics to the ‘crime world’. “It’s a misfortune for the people of Bangladesh as a political…
Channel News Asia The head of the U.N. agency for HIV and AIDS is stepping down in June, six months before his term ends, after an independent panel said that his “defective leadership” tolerated “a culture of harassment, including sexual harassment, bullying, and abuse of power”. Michel Sidibe announced the decision at the end of…
Lincoln Mitchell, Writer and scholar based in New York and San Francisco/Reuters California Democrat Nancy Pelosi is now all but assured of becoming the next speaker of the House of Representatives. In late November, the House Democratic caucus voted to nominate her for the position; on Wednesday she agreed to limit herself to four years…
DOT Desk Awareness of users, manufacturers and marketeers of LP gas can help prevent LPG-related accidents in the country, top officials of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources said, putting forward suggestions for ensuring safe use of LP gas, reports The Daily Sun. “LPG cylinders do not explode due to LPG filling or…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Two train passengers were killed and five others injured after being hit with Hardinge Bridge girder at Pakshi in Ishwardi upazila of the district yesterday, reports banglanews24.com. The deceased were identified as Rabiul Islam, 20, son of Jamal Uddin of Shigabj upazila of Bogra and Hakim Islam, 18, hailed from Shoilgari…
A stuffed deer stands in a former US ammunition store just outside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas, tree branches spreading up from its antlers towards the roof. The work was installed this year at Camp Greaves, a former US army facility within the buffer zone that runs alongside the DMZ that has…
DOT Desk The bench of Justice Tariqul Hakim and Justice Md Suhrawardy came up with the order and rule following a writ petition filed by Law Reporters Forum members M Badiuzzaman and Mahedi Hasan Dalim, Mobile Phone Subscribers Association president Mohiduddin Ahmed and Supreme Court lawyer Rashedul Hasan, reports The DAily Observer. The petition also…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain’s motorcade came under attack near Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur while returning after paying tributes there yesterday, leaving at least 10 people injured, reports UNB. However, Dr Kamal managed to escape the attack unhurt. Latiful Bari Hamim, media wing member of Jatiya Oikyafront, said Dr…
The Israeli army has detained roughly 100 Palestinians throughout the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since dawn Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Association said in a Friday statement. According to the NGO, the latest spate of arrests included two members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Palestine’s long-moribund parliament. The association went on to assert that…