A retired Australian forces chief known for his weekly boxing sessions with Indigenous youngsters in Sydney has been appointed as the Queen’s next representative in the country, a move the country’s opposition Labor party says it hopes will be the last appointment to the position by Buckingham Palace. AP
Reuters: Gay McDougall, a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, cited estimates that 2 million Uighurs and Muslim minorities were forced into “political camps for indoctrination” in the western Xinjiang autonomous region. “We are deeply concerned at the many numerous and credible reports that we have received that in the…
The learning and creativity: ‘RD Burman’s music is eternal, universal and a life-long joy.’ Each and every song RDB composed and set to tune has a unique identity in its treatment, an unmistakable RDB stamp. A straight-from-the-heart tribute to the musical genius of RD Burman by Peeyush Sharma. More than two decades of music has…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) seeking a stay on the by-election to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) again. The plea also sought a stay order on the by-polls for the six wards of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), reports Jago News. Supreme…
Maisha Mahbub According to the World Happiness Report, 2016; Bangladeshis are happier than any other South Asian countries. Being ranked eighth happiest and greenest nation among 140, this country has taken one more step forward to ‘sustainable progresses’ in human development in the last 25 years. Which leads us to the rightful question; what would…
Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author/Channel NewsAsia The North Korean leader made a cunning play for the country’s normalisation, says the US Council on Foreign Relations’s Scott Snyder Supreme Leader and Korean Worker’s Party Chairman, Kim Jong Un, made a consequential shift in January of this…
NDTV Jingling amid a Kuala Lumpur skyline, nearly a dozen people sit in a hanging sleigh-like restaurant as it is raised by a crane some 45 metres (147 feet) above the street below. Strapped into rollercoaster-like seats, the Santa in the Sky patrons dine next to prancing reindeer models and a mannequin of jolly St…
Khaled Ahmed/ The Indian Express SAARC holds the key to South Asia’s economic integration. Imran Khan earned a lot of popular support in Pakistan by opening up the Kartarpur Sahib gurudwara to Sikh yatris from across the border with India. He talked of “peace and trade” and was hailed by the man in the street….
Main Uddin Arif Walid Ashraf is on consecutive hunger-strike for past 8 days. Demanding for Dhaka University Central Student Parliament (Ducsu) Election. He is staying at the Smriti Chirantan Chattar, since 4pm on Saturday. It is by the residence of Vice Chancellor. He put up an orange tent there. Many other student supporters have joined…
Indepednet, UK Nasa’s pioneering Voyager 2 spacecraft has left the Solar System. The craft – which left Earth in 1970 and has been flying through space ever since – becomes only the second ever man-made object to make it out of our galactic neighbourhood. It follows Voyager 1 in venturing out into interstellar space, according…