UNB: The rail communications of five districts with other parts of the country resumed after 26 hours of suspension on Sunday afternoon. The rail communications were suspended on Saturday morning as heavy rain eroded the soil around a pillar of Chakchakia rail bridge in Sonatola upazila, suspending the rail communications on Lalmonirhat-Bogura route. Later, the…
Arab News: Shehu Shagari, Nigeria’s second president, whose civilian tenure was sandwiched between two military rulers in an era rocked by coups, has died. He was 93. Nigeria’s current President Muhammadu Buhari, who unseated Shagari 35 years ago, said on Saturday he mourns “the departure of a patriot, who served Nigeria with humility, integrity and…
Tanvir Ahmed Currently, organizing a fair election should be the number one priority. Gradually this one step will guide everything toward liberal democracy, said former Cabinet Secretary Sha’dat Hussain. At a seminar arranged by Initiative for the Promotion of Liberal Democracy (IPLD), yesterday. Meanwhile, reports of a democracy-research was published at the event. It was…
Desk Report: Dhaka returned to normal as a large number of passenger buses started running the city streets after a three-day break due to a violent student protest for road safety, reports Daily Sun. Buses began to ply city streets on Monday though they were few in number. But on Tuesday bus services were as…
Md. Shamsul Islam, Executive Editor, Our Time : As a media-critic turned journalist, I find it quite difficult to objectively assess the role of the media in the ongoing drive against drugs and the extrajudicial killings associated with it. Following some classic quotes on freedom of expression, our expectations to the media always remain sky-high….
William Lambers, Author and historian /Newsweek, US On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was hit by the world’s first atomic bomb. Every building within a mile was leveled instantly by the blast, codenamed “Little Boy,” killing seventy thousand people in the Japanese city instantly. Three days later, Nagasaki became the next target and the ground zero…
BSS President M Abdul Hamid yesterday urged university authorities to update their curriculum to keep pace with the standards of world’s reputed educational institutions. “There is no alternative to ensuring world class education and research to face the challenges of the 21st century . . . So, update the university curriculum to meet the world…
Arab News: Israel is gearing up for a visit from the Philippines president, who in the past compared his bloody anti-drug crackdown to Hitler and the Holocaust. A government statement Friday said Rodrigo Duterte will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tour the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial early next week. Duterte drew outrage in 2016…
BSS: Owner of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan will pay Taka five lakh each to the families of Rajib Uddin Rajib and Dia Khanam Mim, who were crushed to death by his bus in the capital on July 29, as per a direction of the High Court (HC). Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) informed the court about this…