UNB: Global bank HSBC reported Monday that its pre-tax profit in the first half of the year rose 4.6 percent as its strategy focused on growing markets paid off.The London-based bank’s $10.7 billion pre-tax profit in January-June compared with $10.2 billion a year earlier. Quarterly pre-tax profit surged to $5.96 billion from $4.8 billion in…
The Guardian, UK: A homeless man living in Benidorm allegedly paid €100 (£89) by a British stag group to have the groom’s name tattooed on his forehead has said he accepted the offer out of desperation. Tomek, 34, who met the group in the Spanish resort in May, said he was paid to have the…
The Guardian, UK: Sajid Javid has been accused of trying to “buy the silence” of the Windrush generation by imposing non-disclosure agreements on citizens in return for fast-track compensation payments. Labour claimed the home secretary had broken his promise to “do right” by those migrants from across the Commonwealth who were caught up in the…
The Guardian, UK: Defen-dants are “gaming the system” in specialist domestic violence courts by intimidating partners into not appearing in the expectation that magistrates will drop charges, a critical report has said. The report, commissioned by the police and crime commissioner for Northumbria, Dame Vera Baird QC, was based on the monitoring more than 220…
Reuters: North Korean state media called on Monday for the United States to drop sanctions, saying Pyongyang had demonstrated good faith by ending its nuclear weapons testing and handing over the remains of U.S. troops killed in the Korean War. The statements came just days after a confidential United Nations report concluded North Korea has…
BSS: The national grid is getting additional 16 million cubic feet gas daily (mmcfd) from Well-1 of Habiganj Gas Filed. BAPEX as the state run organization has completed work over of the well-1 and went to gas extraction from lower level from Sunday night, according to a release issued by the Bangladesh Gas Filed Company…
Anadolu Agency: Families of two Israeli soldiers who went missing in the Gaza Strip during the 2014 Israeli war have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife of insulting them, according to Israeli daily Haaretz on Monday. Zehava Shaul, the mother of soldier Oron Shaul, said at a joint press conference with the family…
MEMO: Dozens of Palestinian journalists took part in a protest yesterday outside Israel’s Ofer prison in the central occupied West Bank, to demand the release of 21 imprisoned journalists, reported Xinhua. The journalists held photos of their jailed colleagues and slogans calling for their immediate release. According to Xinhua, the protest was initiated by the…
Prof Dr M Shah Nawaz Ali, Member, UGC : August is the month of grief, strength and inspiration. This month Bangabandhu along with most his family members was murdered. Some barbarians assassinated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the great leader, the poet of politics and the real friend of the masses. How can we describe the losses…
UNB: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed deep shock at the death of Principal Mohammad Ismail, President of Hathazari upazila unit of Awami League in Chattogram.