Marilyn Thipthorpe A colleague once asked me to write an article on how to fall in love with the right person; the person you know will be there by your side, come hail or storm. Well I don’t know about forever my darling, but I sure know falling in love isn’t as easy as its…
Mick O’Reilly, Foreign Correspondent/Gulf News EU27 may offer political platitudes, but there’s no more dealing to be done What part of ‘no’ doesn’t British Prime Minister Theresa May understand? Seriously, there’s only so many ways you can say it — and a host of European leaders have been saying it since Monday. No to reopening…
Sri Lanka was behind in the point of Group B in Champions Trophy. The match of India Vs Sri Lanka was very important for Sri Lanka to win. Now all the team got each 2 point after playing 2 matches. So it is very important to win the next match for each team….
Sayeed Muhammad: Winning a trophy of any big cricket tournament had long been a dream for Bangladesh. However, the long-cherished dream came true as Tigresses earned Bangladesh first ever trophy yesterday. Despite the Tigers raising hopes of bagging trophies in such tournaments many a time in the past, they failed by the slightest margin in…
Straits Times: The trial of two women accused of murdering the North Korean leader’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam was adjourned on Monday (Jan 28) until March, and the case will now drag on until at least mid-2019. Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam have been on trial since October 2017,…
AFP: More than 1,200 people have been killed across South Asia in monsoon storms so far this year, according to figures collected by AFP as India counts the rising toll from floods that have devastated southern Kerala state. The monsoon, which lasts from June to September, causes widespread death and destruction across South Asia each…
Sayeed Muhammad The government has decided to scrap the Section-57 among other controversial sections of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act while the draft of the proposed Digital Security Act has been finalised. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu revealed the matter while talking to reporters after a meeting held at the Secretariat in Dhaka…
UNB A furniture shop was gutted by fire which broke out at Dhalagaon Bazar in Sadar upazila on Friday night. Mantu Biswas, warehouse inspector of Munshiganj fire service, said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at the furniture shop around 10 pm and spread soon.
Anadolu Agency: A video of an anti-polio worker in Pakistan walking through waist-deep snow to administer vaccines to children is doing the rounds on social media gathering praise from humanitarian groups. World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he admired the efforts of Pakistani workers fighting against the crippling polio virus. “There…
C.P. Surendran/ Gulf News No Indian government in recent times has a more crying need for critical and creative brains What must Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi do? Last week, the Reserve Bank of India reported that 99.3 per cent worth of cancelled big denomination notes last November in what is referred to as demonetisation…