Sayeed Muhammad: In a latest move, Qualcomm in a legal filing has accused Apple of stealing its chip secrets and gave it to Intel costing the company billions of dollars. In the lawsuit, Qualcomm asserted that Apple “engaged in a years-long campaign of false promises, stealth, and subterfuge designed to steal Qualcomm’s confidential information and…
John Lloyd, Co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford/Reuters The largest question in democratic politics in Europe is: who’s in charge? The issue was illuminated in the latest standoff in the European Parliament, where the body voted on Wednesday to sanction Hungary for its illiberal policies. And in…
Reuters: An Israeli court has given legal recognition to a Jewish settlement built without Israeli government authorization on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, breaking new judicial ground. Israel’s ultranationalist justice minister on Wednesday hailed the Jerusalem District Court’s decision, announced late on Tuesday, relating to Mitzpe Kramim, an outpost established in…
Md. Taqi Yasir The creator of Clients on Demand, Russ Ruffino helps coaches, experts, thought leaders, and service professionals attract the clients they’re looking for. It is done through his Facebook group “The Art of High-Ticket Selling”, after his team convinced him to do so. Six months later this small group has become a vibrant…
UNB Bangladesh is the seventh most affected country in the world due to “extreme weather events” over the last 20 years from 1998 -2017, says a new global report. The other top nine affected countries are Puerto Rico (1), Honduras (2), Myanmar (3), Haiti (4), the Philippines (5), Nicaragua (6), Pakistan (8), Vietnam (9) and…
Jawed Naqvi, Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi/ Dawn, Pakistan INDIAN actor Naseeruddin Shah was trolled and threatened last week for expressing a reasoned view that religious intolerance and growing mob violence posed a mortal threat to the secular state. Naseer’s is a mixed marriage like several other actors and ordinary folk. Like him, his Hindu wife…
BSS: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) yesterday approved 12 development projects with an outlay of Taka 7,866 crore, including one for dredging and embankment protection of the Padma River. The approval came at the fourth meeting of the ECNEC in fiscal 2018-19 held at NEC conference room in Sher-e-Banglanagar with Prime…
Muhammad Ali Bukhari from Toronto: The New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate, Doly Begum becomes first Bangladeshi Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in Province of Ontario in Canada, who easily defeated a former Toronto Police Superintendant from the Progressive Conservative Party and a veteran Liberal Party MPP in Scarborough Southwest constituency. Doly, who served as co-chair of…
Al Jazeera: Several gunshots were fired from a vehicle at the United States embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Monday, hitting a window in a security cabin but causing no casualties, police reported. The attack coincided with a deepening row between Ankara and Washington over the trial of a US pastor in Turkey. A…
CNN : Nine people were killed and nearly 50 injured in Turkey when a high speed train collided with a locomotive and crashed into a station platform and overpass in an Ankara suburb early on Thursday, officials said. Rescuers worked to free people trapped under the mangled wreckage at Marsandiz train station, 8 km (5…