President Xi Jinping will make a major speech tomorrow to mark the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up. Xi will speak at a conference to be held at the Great Hall of the People from 10 a.m. (0200 GMT) on Tuesday, Xinhua said on Sunday. The report was in line with what diplomatic…
Sofian Khan: Three more alleged drug-peddlers were killed overnight in the countrywide ongoing anti-drug operation, taking the death toll to 134 since the it begun on May 18. According to the claims of the law enforcers, one suspect was killed in an encounter during raids in Thakurgaon and Rangpur and an unidentified bullet-ridden body was…
Reuters: The Kremlin said on Friday it would review any British request to interview the two men London suspects of trying to murder a former spy in strict accordance with Russian law, but said it had not received any such request. Britain has charged the two men, who appeared on Russian TV on Thursday, with…
Sabah Mannan of DOT Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of former Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan, was found guilty in the New Eskaton double murder case. The court said it sentenced Rony to life imprisonment and had also fined Tk 50,000. After delivering the verdict, Judge Md Monjurul Imam said the highest penalty for this case…
Reuters: President Salva Kiir granted a general amnesty to rebels in South Sudan’s civil war, including his former deputy Riek Machar, as a rights organization said authorities in Africa’s youngest country should also free its unarmed critics. The amnesty order was read out on state-run television late on Wednesday, three days after Kiir, SPLM-IO leader…
Reuters: About 50 Brexit-supporting lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s party have met to discuss how and when they could force her out of her job, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Since her botched bet on a snap election in June 2017 lost her party its majority in parliament, May has faced persistent talk…
Marilyn Thipthorpe The pastor of a southwest Florida church opened many eyes and ears Sunday when he said he wants married couples in the congregation to — have sex for 30 days in a row and he wants singles to steer clear of such frolicking for the same length of time. Head pastor Paul Wirth…
Barrister Al Amin Rahman, Advocate, Bangladesh Supreme Court and Partner at FM Associates, Bangladesh : Medical negligence is a common incident in Bangladesh. Every day and even every minute a lot of patients are becoming victims of medical negligence. The term ‘negligence’ has been defined by Rattan Lal and Dhiraj Lal as the “breach of a…
Desk Report: Contrac-eptive prevalence rate in the country is almost static for the last five years, according to a latest estimation, reports Financial Express. The ‘Report on Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2017’ showed that the rate was 62.5 per cent in the past year which was 62.3 per cent in 2016, 62.1 per cent in…
Desk Report: Importers and domestic producers of solar panels will enjoy exemption from the value added tax (VAT) as per a recent order of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), reports the financial express. The exemption from 15 per cent VAT would help promote the use of renewable energy at an affordable cost, officials said….