Kabir Humayun: The Appellate Division has rejected a petition seeking stay on the High Court order that asked the authorities concerned to send photographer Shahidul Alam to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for treatment. A four-member bench, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, rejected the petition yesterday as it was not adequately pressed,…
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush simulated “groping and fondling” the actor at the centre of his defamation suit against the Sydney Daily Telegraph, the newspaper has alleged in court documents. Last week the federal court heard the Telegraph and its reporter, Jonathon Moran, will attempt to prove a defence of truth when the case goes to…
Reuters: Human rights groups called on European governments on Sunday to tell a charity ship where it can dock and let more than 140 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean disembark in safety. The Aquarius, run by Franco-German charity SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders (MSF), rescued 141 people in two separate operations off the Libyan…
The Financail Express: The projected high spending for land acquisition has propelled the cost of Dhaka-Chittagong Expressway project to Tk 335 billion. The cost for land acquisition in the project is 68 per cent higher than the cost of its civil work and main structure component. Sources said the total project cost of the expressway…
BBC: More than 250 people have been injured, five seriously, after a section of wooden jetty collapsed at an urban sports and music festival in Spain. The seafront platform had been packed with people watching a rap artist at the two-day O Marisquiño event in the north-west city of Vigo, in Galicia. Police confirmed that…
AFP: North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, the South’s Yonhap news agency reported following high-level talks in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula. The two sides “agreed at the meeting to hold a South-North summit in Pyongyang in September as planned”, Yonhap quoted a joint statement as…
Independent, UK: A Nasa package has dropped out of the sky – carrying a bizarre message for Donald Trump. The package fell down to Earth over New Jersey, attached to a parachute and making a strange hissing sound, according to police. When it was examined, authorities found that the message had a strange message for…
Ashikur Rahman, Senior economist at Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh/BDnews24 Imagine a thought experiment. It is Aug 14, 1975. Bangabandhu is informed very early in the day that a grave conspiracy has been hatched by his cabinet minister and long-time confidant Khandaker Mushtaque along with Lt General Zia, Colonel Farooq, Colonel Rashid and the sitting…
CNN: It was a journey of love, driven by a mother’s loss, stretching across a thousand miles of ocean as the world watched and wondered. An apparently grieving female orca whale who swam with the body of her dead calf for more than two weeks has stopped carrying the carcass, environmental officials said. The adult…
Masood Kamal, Senior News Editor, Banglavision: Now the Traffic Week has been extended by another three days, meaning that the traffic awareness campaign lasts for 10 days. Initiating the Traffic Week and extending it—both are benefiting for the government. And the Traffic Week was an effective move to stop the student protests demanding road safety….