AP, Paris French police have targeted hundreds of websites suspected of “inciting or glorifying acts of terrorism” after the Paris attacks by ordering content removals, delisting sites from search engines or blocking access. The French privacy watchdog in charge of monitoring website closures said Friday that more than 1,000 pieces of web content have been…
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…
French Interior minister Christophe Castaner on Friday paid his respects at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg, days after 37 of its tombstones and a monument to Holocaust victims were defaced with Nazi symbols. Castaner said the “abject” desecration could have been conducted by a far right group, but did not elaborate as an investigation was…
Reported by: Rafiq Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra Oikkoboddho Chatra Somaj called for a protest-assembly in front of the Press Club, on Sunday 4pm. In demand for the justification of the brutal attacks on the students of 7 colleges and charging them upon false accusation. They announced of going to the Law & Justice…
DOT Desk Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested three people in the capital on charge of spreading rumours through social media. The arrestees are Wahidunnabi, 47, Arafat Tarunno Tamadi, 37 and Abdullah Jabid, 45, reports The Daily Observer. They were held from Shyamoli on Thursday night. The move comes just few days…
Reuters: Singapore police said on Tuesday an aircraft linked to an investigation into a multi-billion scandal at Malaysian state fund 1MDB was in the city-state but Malaysia had not made a formal request for its return. Singapore authorities had not previously confirmed that the $35-million private jet, which Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said…
BSS France’s countryside comes to Paris on Saturday as the agricultural expo kicks off, the annual opportunity for urbanites to channel their inner peasants and politicians to burnish their farm cred. Strutting cows, prize pigs and splendid cockerels will preen for the cameras as nearly 700,000 visitors — a third of them children under 12…
Kabir Humayun: Banpara highway police officer-in-charge (OC) has been closed following Natore road crash that left 15 people dead last Saturday. GM Shamsur Nur, the highway police officer, has now been attached to the office of Bogra highway police’s superintendent – effective from yesterday, reports The Daily Star. The OC has been closed as he…
Reported by: Tanvir Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra Structural & industrial developments were core reasons behind raising Bangladesh 7 rank-steps higher in the Global Capacity Index (GCI), informs private research institute Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD). But they blamed the implementation inefficiency in the ICT sector. It greatly held back the technological advancement despite of…
Al Arabiya: Saudi Arabia has contributed $100 million to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, more specifically supporting stabilization projects in areas liberated from the terrorist group in northeast Syria. This is the largest contribution to the coalition to date for these areas in specific, and it is an implementation of the pledge made by…