Reuters: Russia’s top election official said on Wednesday she had recommended the results of a regional election in the country’s far east be annulled due to vote rigging and a new election held, Russian news agencies reported. Hundreds of Russian Communist Party supporters took to the central square of Vladivostok on Monday to protest against…
UNB: The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to return the passport of Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury for six months. An HC bench of Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty passed the order after hearing a petition. Advocate Fazlur Rahman stood for Ariful while deputy attorney general Maniruzzaman Kabir…
AP, Canberra Australia’s prime minister on Wednesday distanced himself from the man he replaced by announcing a new fund to promote clean energy innovation as the country heads toward a likely early election in July. The announcement by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of the 1 billion Australian dollar ($760 million) Clean Energy Innovation Fund comes…
The Independent, BD: Audience-admired actress Aruna Biswas is set to appear in the television commercial (TVC) after a long hiatus of 25 years. The actress has recently been featured as a model in a TVC of Robi directed by Sakib Fahad. DhakaLive has news that the shooting of the TVC was completed last week in…
The Guardian:Researchers are asking people who have suffered from depression and anxiety to provide DNA samples so they can look for common genes Genetic links to anxiety and depression are to be explored in the largest ever study into the issue, experts have announced. Researchers are calling on people in England to sign up to…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Electoral symbols for the 11th national parliamentary elections will be distributed among contesting candidates starting today. The election campaign will be allowed to be conducted after the allocation of the symbols. The last date for the withdrawal of candidature was yesterday, reported Daily Sun.
Dr. Ridwanul Hoque writes for DOT : Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that Myanmar should disband its commission of inquiry into abuses in Rakhine state because it is clearly unwilling to seriously investigate alleged grave crimes against ethnic Rohingya. At a news conference on December 12, 2018, Rosario Manalo, chair of the Independent Commission of…
John Lloydco, Founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford/BDnews24 Two men of influence – the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the politician Boris Johnson – now face media bans and/or ridicule for what they saw as speaking their minds. Both, though quite different in background, manner and actions,…
Written by: Tanzim Taqrim Arnob 36th session of the human rights movement in Geneva on 19th January,Indian Ambassador Ragib K Chandar spoke about Rohingya crisis. He gave a speech on India’s position with Myanmar about the Rohingya crisis. He represented Rohingya issues recent position clearly. He admits Rohingya people are suffering from Myanmar’s violence. To…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age: The world has always been a pretty strange place. Life is quirky and people often do things which surprise and then shock and sometimes amuse us. Think of everything that has been happening in Syria. Some western nations were busy some years ago making the argument for a…