BSS: The Barind Multi-purpose Development Authority (BMDA) has brought over 8.93 lakh hectares of croplands including 3.15 lakh hectares irri-boro fields under irrigation in almost 16 districts of Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions. The huge croplands get the irrigation facilities through operating 15,517 power-driven deep tube wells (DTWs) and 417 low lift pumps in almost round…
Arab News: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday he might send the navy’s most modern frigate to waters off Libya in a bid to “save” three Filipinos and a South Korean kidnapped last month from a water plant in the north African country. South Korea has redirected a vessel taking part in anti-piracy operations…
Hindustan Times: China is building rockets for its artillery units that will be propelled by “electromagnetic catapult” technology and can be used at high altitude locations in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), state media has reported, indicating the projectiles could be deployed against India. Describing the innovation as “unprecedented”, the report said the catapult-propelled rockets…
Kazi Anis Ahmed, Investor and Publisher : TRIGGER WARNING: Unpopular opinon ahead!!–The student protests triggered by a bus running over two college kids five days ago have made for an amazing display for civil action – so far. But by now, the owner and driver of the offending bus have been arrested, the company’s permit…
UNB: At least seven rebels and an Indian army soldier were killed in gunbattles in disputed Kashmir, triggering violent protests by residents opposed to Indian rule, officials said Saturday. Army soldiers and counterinsurgency police cordoned off a neighborhood in the suburbs of southern Shopian town overnight, leading to an exchange of fire with rebels, police…
Desk Report: Amid the ongoing student demonstrations demanding safer roads, another college girl was killed after being hit by a covered van at Barabari on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway yesterday which was later torched by an angry mob, UNB reports. The deceased was identified as Farzana Alam Mim, 19, a student of Safiuddin Sarker Academy and College…
BSS: Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has started constructing speed breakers on the busy streets in front of the educational institutions in the city aiming at freeing those from road traffic accidents. “We will construct 26 speed breakers at 13 critical points in the metropolis and we have already started the works,” said Ashraful Haque, chief…
Abrar Hussain: Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia has ‘promised’ that the police will take a ‘tough line’ on traffic violators and strengthen punishments for offences. The traffic rules will be implemented and an amendment to the existing road transport law will bring harsher punishments to the errant drivers, the DMP chief said at a…
Sayeed Muhammad: Aw-ami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said a group of political infiltrators posing themselves as student protesters attacked the Awami League president’s political office at Dhanmondi, Dhaka. “A total 17 leaders and activists of Awami League and its associated wings were injured in the attack. They have already been admitted to the…
Reuters: EDF has halted four nuclear reactors at three power plants in France because of the current heatwave affecting Europe, a spokesman for the utility said on Saturday. High temperatures registered in the Rhone and Rhine rivers, from which the three power plants pump their water for cooling, led to a temporary shutdown of the…