BSS: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday said the government is not taking any move to export the rawhide aimed at expanding the country’s leather industry as it is one of the top export earning sectors. “The government is providing necessary support to develop the country’s leather sector,” he told journalists after exchanging Eid greetings with officials…
BBC: China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has suspended its carpool service after police said a driver raped and killed a female passenger. A company statement said the incident showed there were deficiencies in its processes, and so it would suspend its Hitch system for re-evaluation. Authorities said the 20-year-old woman hailed the ride on Friday…
M Humayun Kabir: Bangladesh is likely to begin the relocation process of the Rohingya refugees from all refugee camps to Bhashan Char from September. The relocation was supposed to take place before this year’s monsoon, reports The Daily Star. The cause of the delay is the char was not fully prepared for habitation, authorities concerned…
Al Jazeera: Nearly three million Syrians living in the northwestern province of Idlib are bracing for a possible government assault, which neighbouring Turkey has warned would result in a large-scale humanitarian disaster. Idlib is the last remaining opposition stronghold in the country. It is home to about three million people, half of whom are internally…
The Guardian, UK: Jeremy Corbyn has been made the subject of an official complaint to the Labour party over his suggestion in 2013 that some British Zionists do not understand “English irony”. The Labour leader has since sought to clarify the remarks, which have ensured that the party remains embroiled in a row over its…
M Humayun Kabir: The United Nations has appointed Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished fellow of Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), in its committee on least developed countries (LCDs). According to a press release, his appointment, on a three-year term, to UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) was made on recommendation of the Secretary General of the…
Arab News: Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani rejected on Sunday resignations tendered a day earlier by three senior security officials, the government said. The resignations from 8More on Page 7, Col (From Page 8) Defence Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami and Interior Minister Wais Barmak, as well as Masoom Stanekzai, the head of the National Directorate of…
UNB: Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) on Sunday demand proper investigation into the rape of two minor girls of Tripura community at Rangati’s Tripura Para in Lama upazila of Bandarban on Wednesday allegedly by the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). The human right body, in a press statement, also demanded steps to ensure exemplary…
UNB: A high-level delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque, paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara in Gopalganj on Sunday. The Foreign Secretary was accompanied by the senior officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and their spouses and children. During…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a fresh allegation, a former Trump Tower doorman has said an astonishing allegation that the US president fathered a love child with an ex-Trump Tower housekeeper. The development came when virtually nothing about US President Donald Trump can any longer, arguably, be called astonishing, reports WION. According to news reports published yesterday,…