Sabah Mannan: Briefing the reporters at the EC secretariat Thursday noon (April 26), Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed said the upcoming polls to Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) won’t have any deployment of army. Previously, BNP placed 26-point demand seeking army deployment and abolishing the use of EVM machines in the polls to GCC and Khulna…
Reuters: Tall ships carrying climate change banners sailed into Australia’s Sydney Harbour on Saturday launching a wave of protest across 95 countries organized by New York-based lobby group 350.org. Climate change is of great concern in the Pacific region with Pacific Island nations declaring on Friday that it is their “single greatest threat” and urging…
Sky News Shakira has been charged with tax evasion in Spain with prosecutors claiming she failed to pay more than €14.5m (£13m) between 2012 and 2014. The popstar’s representatives have denied wrongdoing. According to the charges, the Colombian pop star allegedly listed the Bahamas as her official address for tax purposes during that period but…
Desk Report Eminent film director, powerful actor and writer Amjad Hossain was laid to eternal rest at his home district in Jamalpur on Sunday morning, reports The Daily Sun. After Namaj-e-janaja, the renowned actor was buried at Jamalpur municipality graveyard. During his burial actor’s family members, relatives, well wishers and elite were present. A large…
Reported by: Jannatul Ferdous Panna Written by: Eshan Maitra Every field employee & officers are annoyed about the unnecessary delay at administrative level. The tribunal should have been formed over a week ago. But none can explain why the gadget has not been published yet. Prosecutor Zead Al Malum shared his frustration to the media…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age What if the four leaders of the Mujib-nagar government had not died in November 1975? All these years after the medieval manner of their murder, it is naïve to ask what might have been if things had happened differently. And yet there is a need, a very palpable…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a fresh move, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a new push for European defence project, saying the continent’s security should not rely on the US. While addressing an event in Paris yesterday he hinting at French ambassadors said “it’s up to us” to guarantee Europe’s security and therefore its sovereignty, reports…
DOT Desk: The government has no facilities in place to provide any service to increasing number of HIV infected returnee migrants, reports The New Age. Absence of intervention programmes exposes spouses and children of infected returnees to the risk of getting infected, migrant right campaigners told New Age. An unknown number of infected returnees die…
The US Embassy here including the Consular Section, the American Center, Archer K. Blood American Center Library, and the Education USA Student Advising Center, will be closed on Sunday on the occasion of Victory Day of Bangladesh. Emergency services for American citizens will be available. Please call 5566-2000 and ask for the duty officer, said…
Abrar Hussain: Iran alle-ged yesterday that the new sanctions imposed by Washington were an attempt to sabotage efforts to save the 2015 nuclear deal by its remaining signatories following the withdrawal of the US from the accord. On Tuesday, the US Treasury imposed sanctions on Iran’s central bank governor, three other individuals and an Iraq-based bank…