Sofian Khan: US have indirectly expressed criticism toward China yesterday for their effort to shield Myanmar from strong UNSC action over a military crackdown against mainly Rohingya Muslims that the U.S. and other countries have denounced as ethnic cleansing.U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley did not mention China by name, but China proposed substantial amendments to a British-drafted…
Sofian Khan: The Sup-reme Court (SC) will deliver its verdict on the two appeals against the High Court (HC) bail order for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The verdict was originally supposed to come yesterday till Attorney General Mahbubey Alam delayed by a day after coming up with some more…
There are many cities in the world that are about two thousand years old. Say, for instance, London, Rome, Paris or Ethan are among the cities. They have not only been carrying tradition for the last 150-200 years, but thousands of years. Are the traffics of these cities less than that we have, or more?…
The anti-quota protests are still on as the government is yet to publish the gazette notification and everyone expects that, in no time, this issue would be resolved amicably. But one may question: does the matter at hand would address the bigger problem of the ever-increasing unemployment rate among our youth? Given the number of…
In initial small steps toward reconciliation, South Korea expressed their willingness to remove loudspeakers that blared propaganda across the border, while North Korea said it would shift its clocks to align with its southern neighbour. The moves came after the historic summit late April 2018 at which South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North’s…
Sofian Khan: BNP’s mayor nominee Nazrul Islam Monju’s office has been vandalised while the Khulna City Corporation election, allegedly by the members of the ruling party.According to special secretary of BNP Khulna unit Hafez Abul Bashar, a group of 40-50 Awami League men vandalised Monju’s office yesterday around 10:30 am. “The Al men attacked the tent…
Sofian Khan: A discreet human rights activist from Lahore in Pakistan, Diep Saeeda, received a short message on her Facebook from an unknown ID with whom she had a number of friends in mutual: “Hy dear.” She instantly did not think anything about it and never even responded. Apparently, the ID did not belong to…
Tahmeed Taha: In Gaza funerals are to be held for 58 people killed when Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinian protesters on Monday, in the deadliest day of violence there since a war in 2014. With the 70th anniversary, the burials coincide of what Palestinians call the Nakba – the mass displacement of Palestinians after the…
Tahmeed Taha: Early results show that India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is heading towards a majority in the southern state of Karnataka. According to the Election Commission, 57 seats have been won by the BJP and it is ahead in another 57 in the 224-seat assembly. The polls are seen as a bellwether of…
Md. Ali Raj: After four days of unbearable congestion, traffic gridlock on the four-lane Dhaka-Chittagong highway largely reduced yesterday. As motorists were diverted to alternative routes around an 800-metre stretch of road in Feni’s Fatehpur where the construction work of a flyover is going on, the situation improved from there. Between Chittagong and Comilla the…