Nael M Shama/BDnews24 The foreign policy of the United Arab Emirates offers a curious case study for scholars of international relations: a small state with a tiny population and historically little presence on the world stage, but with outsized – and seemingly ever-expanding – ambitions. Over the past decade, while consolidating its status as a…
NDTV: A doctoral research student at the University of Texas has built the world’s smallest medical robot that cannot be seen with the human eye. Creation of Soutik Betal, the robot measures 120 nanometer and has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for its negligible size, Fast Company reports. The robot is basically a…
AP: Hard-line Islamists who started a march toward Pakistan’s capital to protest a far-right Dutch lawmaker’s plans to hold a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest have been stopped by police. Some 10,000 supporters of the Tehreek-i-Labaik group, which helped Imran Khan to become prime minister following last month’s elections, set out on the march Wednesday, calling…
Reuters: A news cameraman and another man were found shot dead in the Mexican resort of Cancun on Wednesday, the local prosecutor’s office said, the latest killing in a country that press advocacy groups call one of the most dangerous in the world for reporters. The cameraman was identified by the prosecutor’s office of Quintana Roo…
Abrar Hussain: After submitting a ‘note of decent’, Election Commission (EC) Commissioner Mahbub Talukder boycotted the RPO amendment draft meeting yesterday, according to Banglanews24. He apparently left the discussion after 30-mins and placed his objection on proposal of using Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the Representation of the People Order (RPO). The pending meeting was…
Reuters: The Kremlin said on Thursday there was no sign that the United States wanted to reach a compromise with Moscow to avoid imposing a new round of sanctions on Russia. A new round of U.S. sanctions came into effect on Russia on Monday and Washington has said it may decide to impose a second…
Sandrine Devillard, Senior partner at McKinsey & Company & Anu Madgavkar, McKinsey Global Institute partner./Project Syndicate Digital technologies are a double-edged sword for the world’s women. Men’s greater access to these technologies puts women at risk of being left even further behind economically and socially. But if women can tap the full power of digital…
The Guardian, UK: Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel peace prize will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya. On Monday, UN investigators said Myanmar’s military carried out killings and gang rapes with “genocidal intent”, and the commander-in-chief and five generals…
Kabir Humayun: The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has grilled eight more officials of Petrobangla over Barapukuria coal scam yesterday. ACC spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bhattachariya told Banglanews that ACC Deputy Director and Investigation Officer Shamsul Alam quizzed the officials. The eight officials who appeared before the ACC office in Segunbagicha are: Petrobangla Deputy Manager (coal handling…
M Humayun Kabir: Bangladesh and Nepal has agreed to boost cooperation in power sector alongside trade and investment. The agreement was made after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks with her Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli on the sidelines of the 4th BIMSTEC Summit here, reports BSS. “They discussed bilateral and regional cooperation and put…