Uri Friedman, Staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers global affairs/ The Atlantic If the first summit accomplished little, the second could be the same—but there are many wild cards. For roughly 40 minutes on Friday, a sleepy boutique hotel in Washington, D.C., burst to life as the epicenter of nuclear talks with North…
DOT Desk: About 400 indigenous people of Tripura Palli, a remote village in Chattogram, were elated to have finally gotten electricity in their homes, 47 years after Bangladesh gained independence, reports The Daily Star. A total of 55 solar panels were installed in the village on Monday. Speaking to The Daily Star, Hathazari Upazila Nirbahi…
Allure: Priyanka Chopra has wrapped up her honeymoon with new husband Nick Jonas, and while the buzz from her extra-long wedding celebrations (plural) probably hasn’t worn off yet, she’s hitting the ground running in 2019 with new projects and a gorgeous new hair color. “With this #10yearchallenge taking over the internet, it’s got me thinking…
Nicky Morgan/The Economist The debate over a second Brexit referendum People were given the right to vote and expect the result to be respected, says Nicky Morgan, MP If the prime minister cannot win majority support for her Withdrawal Agreement and Future Framework (which I will support) in the House of Commons, then Parliament will…
The Echo: A mum who tragically lost five babies said her family is now complete after giving birth to a healthy ‘rainbow’ baby boy. Cath Ascroft suffered three devastating miscarriages, a traumatic stillbirth at 20 weeks and the painful loss of baby Hendrix, who lived just 12 hours before he died. The 43-year-old, who already…
DOT Desk: Newly-appoin- ted finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has asked National Board of Revenue to review the country’s existing income tax rates for corporate and individual taxpayers to make them ‘balanced’ and ‘rationalised’ with a view to boost revenue mobilisation, expand tax net and attract investment, reports The New Age. He also instructed the…
UNB: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested a suspected drug trader couple along with 5,300 pieces of Yaba tablets from Pahartoli area in the port city yesterday. The arrestees are Md Kamal Hossain, 38, and his wife Juthy Begum, 25, hailing from Madaripur district. On information, a team of Rab-7 conducted…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Columnist/Dhaka courier In conversation with a journalist a few years before his death, Selim Al-Deen took positive pride in the way the farmers in his tales reached heights as sublime or as heroic as the characters in the old Greek plays. And that about sums up Selim Al-Deen’s attitude to the world…
DOT Desk: The assistant commissioner (land) of Bagha upazila, PM Imrul Kayes, came under an attack by a gang of sand lifters at Harirampur of Rajshahi, reports The New Age. Officer-in-charge of Bagha police station Mohsin Ali said that Imrul went on a drive at a sand quarry by the River Padma in the afternoon…
DOT Desk: The motorcycle market is set to be around 6 lakh units by the end of 2019 thanks to price cuts, increasing purchasing capacity and thrust for faster mobility, reports The Daily Star. “2018 was a good year for the sector but 2019 will be better,” said Hafizur Rahman Khan, chairman of Runner Automobiles,…