Reuters Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, who worked with North Korea, is being investigated on suspicion of harming China’s state security, officials said, days after a former Canadian diplomat was detained in China in an escalating diplomatic row. The state security bureau in the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong, which borders North Korea, has been investigating…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The Rohingya are facing a “lost generation” as children both in Myanmar and in the refugee camps of Bangladesh struggle to get an education, reports The Independent. The Rohingya youth who remain in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have faced serious restrictions on access to schooling since the outbreak of violence there in…
Natasha Bertrand, Staff writer at The Atlantic & Russell Berman, Staff writer at The Atlantic/The Atlantic The sentencing ended a saga that began with a dramatic FBI raid and led Cohen to implicate the president in criminal misconduct. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday,…
NTV Online BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday demanded the immediate deployment of army with magistracy power for ensuring proper election atmosphere. ‘We’ve long been talking about deployment of army in the national election. We now demand that the army be deployed immediately with magistracy power,’ he said, reports the UNB. Fakhrul…
BSS BNP, in a letter, yesterday called upon the Election Commission to take effective steps for ensuring overall security so that the party and the Jatiya Oikyafront’s candidates can conduct their electioneering in a free and fair manner. BNP and Oikyafront’s candidates are being harassed and arrested and many of them are being attacked by…
NDTV Amid the Congress victory in the assembly election results announced on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi is due to make an announcement soon today, to officially reveal the names of the chief ministers of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has reached the residence of Rahul Gandhi. Ashok Gehlot and Kamal Nath have…
Sky News Wrappers and packaging can make up almost half the weight of Christmas chocolates, a study has found. Which? looked at some of the most popular sweet treats in the run up to Christmas and found the Ferrero Rocher tray was the worst offender in terms of packaging. Of the total weight of the…
Business Standard With demands of work productivity shooting up stress levels, researchers have discovered that a person’s eyes may offer a solution. The study showed that the pupil dilation — widening of the pupils of the eyes — could be used to indicate levels of stress of a person in a multitasking environment. “Many people…
BSS Disaster management and relief ministry provided jobs to 3.87 crore people in the last 10 years under its social safety net programmes. “The government has also provided support to women empowerment and raised their financial capacity,” Deputy Principal Information Officer Dewan Omar Faruque told BSS yesterday. He said during the period rural poverty was…
The nation is set to observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day on Friday to commemorate those intellectuals who were killed systematically by the Pakistan occupation forces and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the country’s Liberation War in 1971. On this day in 1971, country’s renowned academicians, doctors, engineers, journalists, artists, teachers and other eminent…