Sayeed Muhammad: In yet another positive move to the country’s power sector, Bangladesh has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nepal to increase cooperation in the power sector and expedite the process of importing hydro-electricity from Nepal. Apart from the import of hydro-electricity from Nepal through India, the MoU includes investments by Bangladesh in Nepal’s…
AFP: Japan Friday launched an unprecedented probe into gender discrimination at all the nation’s medical universities after a Tokyo medical school admitted altering the entrance test results of female applicants to exclude them. The education ministry has asked all 81 private and public medical schools to check their admission procedures for possible discrimination against female…
Kabir Humayun: Long queues of holidaymakers were seen at Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka yesterday as the sale of advance train tickets by Bangladesh Railway rolls on to third day. Bangladesh Railway began its advance ticket sale on August 8 to ensure the home-goers a hassle-free journey by train ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, likely to be…
Kabir Humayun: A suspected drug peddler was killed in ‘crossfire’ with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Maqbul Hossain, 36, a listed drug peddler who was accused in 12 narcotics related cases, said Sub-inspector Harun of Louhajang Police Station, reports The Daily Star. Md Mohitul…
M Humayun Kabir: Zunaid Ahmed Palak, state minister for ICT, has enlisted in the list of the ‘World’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government’. The names of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, founder of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee, Indian Minister for Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad and Taiwanese Minister for Digital…
Arafat Hasan: US forces have launched airstrikes in Afghanistan yesterday in what they claim is a counter-offensive to a major Taliban assault on an Afghan provincial capital. Terrified residents cowered in their homes amid explosions and gunfire as security forces tried to beat the insurgents back. According to officials, Afghan Special Forces were also being…
Abrar Hussain: Sixty nine tourists, including 20 foreigners, are reportedly stranded at a private resort in the popular tea county of Munnar in Kerala’s Idukki district after the roads leading to the resort became blocked due to landslides caused by intense rain throughout the state. The situation has deteriorated to the point that the army…
Reuters: A city councilor in The Hague and member of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party has taken her own life, hours after posting a video on Facebook in which she claimed she was gang-raped by Muslims as part of an intimidation campaign. Willie Dille, 53, reportedly ended her own life on Wednesday, shortly after sharing a…
Reuters: Yemen’s Houthi group welcomed on Friday a call by the United Nations for an independent investigation into Saudi-led coalition air strikes that killed dozens of people a day earlier, including children traveling on a bus. “We welcome the call of the secretary general (of the United Nations) and we are ready to cooperate,” the…
Russia Today: After it emerged that the former president Juan Manuel Santos recognized Palestine as an independent state just before leaving office, Colombia’s new government has pledged to “cautiously” review the decision and its implications. Palestine was described as a “free, independent and sovereign state” in Santos’ August 3 letter to the Palestinian representative in…