Desk Report: Students who took to the streets over the last four days demanding safe roads have started policing delinquent drivers. A midday scene that played out in Dhanmondi yesterday illustrates the vigilant steps by the students who lost two of their fellows to a road crash on Jul 29. A police vehicle was stopped…
Sky News: The Great Pyramid of Giza can collect and concentrate electromagnetic energy in its chambers and at its base, scientists have discovered. The 139m (456ft) construction was built by the ancient Egyptians more than 4,500 years ago and is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Experts are still working to…
M Humayun Kabir: Transport workers beat up students and blocked Dhaka-Chittagong Highway protesting vandalism on buses during the students’ agitation following deaths of two students in airport road crash on Sunday. The agitating workers blockaded Signboard point in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj around 8:30am, causing severe gridlock on the highway, reports The Daily Star. According to…
Kabir Humayun: A Dhaka court yesterday placed bus driver Masum Billah of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the deaths of two students on Airport Road in Dhaka on Sunday. Metropolitan Magistrate HM Tuah passed the order after he was produced before the court with a seven-day remand prayer by…
Dawn, Pakistan: While the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is claiming that it is in a position to form a coalition government not only in Islamabad but also in three provinces of the country, the party seems to be in a fix, so far, over the selection of its nominees for top slots in Punjab and Khyber…
MEMO: The United Nations Human Rights Office yesterday called on Saudi Arabia to release all activists who have been detained for demanding an end to the lift on women driving. “We urge the Government of Saudi Arabia to unconditionally release all human rights defenders and activists who have been detained for their peaceful human rights…
UNB: A court here on Wednesday sentenced three persons to life term imprisonment in connection with a murder of a young man in Ramchandrapurvillage of Kendua upazila in the district in 2011. Netrakona District and Session Judges Court Judge,KM Rasheduzzaman Raja passed the order and also fined each of the convicts Tk 50,000 or to…
Reuters: Cambodia’s long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen, 65, whose party claimed victory in a general election that many have said was neither free nor fair, met with supporters for the first time since the vote on Wednesday. The former Khmer Rouge commander, who has ruled Cambodia for nearly 33 years, took ‘selfies’ with supporters and enjoyed…
Reuters: On Aug. 1, when face veils are banned in Denmark, Sabina will not be leaving her niqab at home. Instead, she will be defying the law and taking to the street in protest. In May, the Danish par liament banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and some other European countries…
UNB: Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Benoit Prefontaine yesterday said the signing of contact between Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd and Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) consolidates Canada’s position as a major aerospace sector partner of Bangladesh. “It further expands the fleet of Canadian aircraft and helicopters being flown in Bangladesh skies by commercial airlines, private owners…