Reuters: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has created a buzz on social media after a video sequence shown at the opening ceremony of the 18th Asian Games culminated with the 57-year-old leader roaring into Jakarta’s main stadium on a powerful motorbike. After his motorcade is held up by Jakarta’s notorious traffic, the tongue-in-cheek video showed a…
BanglaNews24 Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is set to create a database of all travel agencies who send tourists abroad. The government is going to collect information of all travel agents, tour operators, name of agents, travel expense, and Clearing and Forwarding (C & F) agents, as they process all travel-related procedures including visa applications,…
Raj Abrar of DOT Eleven people have died after eating rice that had likely been contaminated with a toxic substance at a Hindu temple ceremony in India, a health official said. Another 29 people were critically ill and undergoing emergency treatment across various hospitals in Mysore, a city in the southern state of Karnataka. “Eleven…
Marilyn. T. My worship for one pot pasta dishes burns ever brighter! Today I’m going to share an Asian fusion version: one pot coconut curry pasta. This is one of my favorite things that I’ve cooked in a while! It might not be forgiving to your waistline but it’ll certainly make your day! This one…
Desk Report: Bangladesh would seek US investment in the country’s proposed Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the fourth TICFA meeting to be held in Washington on September 13, officials said, reports Financial Express. Investment opportunities, market access for locally made products, customs and supplementary duty structure, labour issues and implementation of trade facilitation agreement will…
Dr. Tofayel Ahmed, Local Government Analyst : The Election Commission’s (EC) promise to provide equal opportunity for all parties was merely empty words and no action. Thus it makes no difference whether their words are given any importance or not. Arrests and harassments right before the three elections are not a good sign. Only a few…
Mohammed Jalal Alrayssi, Executive Director of the Emirates News Agency/Gulf News Continued improvement is always on the agenda Both regionally and globally, there have been a number of important political and economic developments preceding and following the recent second annual meeting of the UAE government, which examined a set of strategies and initiatives launched to…
Hossen Sohel of DOT UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday criticised as “too slow” Myanmar’s efforts to allow the return of Rohingya Muslim refugees, describing the lack of progress as a source of “enormous frustration.” More than 720,000 Rohingya are living in camps in Bangladesh after they were driven out of Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state…
Marilyn Thipthorpe A one-year-old boy in India who developed pubic hair and sexual urges has been diagnosed with a rare hormonal condition. The toddler, known only as Akash, was found to have the testosterone level of a 25-year-old. This meant he had adult-sized genitalia, facial and body hair and his voice was starting to break….
AP: Nagasaki marked the anniversary of the world’s second atomic bombing Thursday with the United Nations’ chief and the city’s mayor urging global leaders to take concrete steps toward world nuclear disarmament. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the first United Nations chief to visit Nagasaki, said fears of nuclear war are still present 73 years after the…