Sky News A suspected armed robber has been caught after a bank was held up in a remote archipelago near the North Pole, police have said. The heist was a first for Svalbard, which is located in the Arctic Ocean halfway between Norway and the North Pole, and is famous for its glaciers and polar…
AFP: Kenya and Tanzania tomorrow mark 20 years since the devastating US embassy bombings that thrust Al-Qaeda onto the global stage and went on to shape how a generation thinks about personal security. It was mid-morning on August 7, 1998, when the first massive blast hit the US embassy in downtown Nairobi, followed minutes later by…
Kabir Humayun: At least six people were killed and eight others injured after a cattle truck crashed into a microbus on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway near Feni. Two of the dead are children and three are women. All of them are members of the same family, said Muhuriganj Highway Police Outpost Sub Inspector Md Mahbub Alam,…
Nobonita Chowdhury Many of us love traveling. For some it’s as essential as the air we breathe. However, the means of getting to our travel destination can be a hassle. This is almost always the case for yours truly. I am the least organized person one could ever come across and if you add that…
Hossen Sohel: Austr-alian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s own party defied his wishes yesterday by nominating a former diplomat instead of a female candidate to run in a crucial by-election for a seat that belonged to the man he deposed in a leadership coup, reports Reuters. Morrison’s Liberal party, the senior partner in a Liberal-National coalition,…
Mobinur Rahman Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation& Bangladesh Navy signed a project deal. That will createa fuel storage& distributionhubat the Pitolganj in Narayanganj. An 8 inch diameter & 16 kilometers long pipeline connection will be established from Pitolganj to Shahjalal International Airport.In order to carry fuel for the airplanes more efficiently. The project also plans to establish,…
Russia Today: The leader of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, has offered to place the embassy of his self-proclaimed state in Jerusalem, if Israel would recognize the renegade Serbian province as an independent country. “If Kosovo were recognized by Israel, I would place the Kosovo embassy in Jerusalem,” the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) reported Friday, citing KosovaPress….
Samiul Bashar Samin For all that ‘province of all mankind’ talk, space travel has always been shaped by acquisitive impulses, though historically these have been national rather than private. You might have noticed the American flags on the Moon; the American country musician Brad Paisley has an American song called American Flag on the Moon…
Hindustan Times: A 50-year-old woman, allegedly held captive on the terrace of her brother’s house in northwest Delhi’s Rohini for the past two years, was rescued on Tuesday in a very poor condition. The woman, who was lying in her own excreta and was allegedly tortured, was found almost reduced to bones by a team…
The Hindu External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has written to Cooch Behar MP Partha Pratim Ray on re-establishing railway connectivity with Bangladesh. In a letter to Mr. Ray, Ms. Swaraj said that Government is fully committed to re-establishing all forms of transport connectivity with Bangladesh. The MP had raised the issue of reintroducing connectivity between…