Sofian Khan:Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the Army to stay alert of facing any sort of internal and external threats to safeguard country’s constitution and sovereignty.”You’ll have to always remain ready to face any internal or external threats unitedly for protecting the sacred constitution and sovereignty of the motherland,” she said while inaugurating 27…
Anadolu Agency: A Myanmar court on Monday postponed the verdict on two Reuters journalists who documented a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine state. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, have been detained since December for allegedly collecting secret documents from police as they investigated violence against Rohingya. Yangon’s northern district…
Reuters French riot police fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon at “yellow vest” protesters trying to breach security cordons on the Champs Elysees boulevard in Paris on Saturday ahead of a third rally against high fuel prices. Police said 24 people had been arrested amid concerns that violent far-right and far-left groups…
Hossen Sohel: Aus-tralia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison, ele-cted to heal his fractured party, faces his biggest test on Monday, in steering the government through a hostile first session of parliament, reports Reuters. Picked last month by the ruling Liberal Party to become the sixth prime minister in the last decade, following a backbench revolt…
Nusrat Jahan By now, all of Bangladesh is aware of every little detail about the Xunaed VS. Nurullah incident. The video uploaded from Xunaed’s account, later on by many other Facebook pages too, caused a social media uproar, and the entire Bangladeshi Facebook population was out to get Xunaed’s head. A recent news report confirmed…
Reuters: Syrian state media said on Saturday air defenses had confronted a “hostile target” breaching the country’s air space west of the capital Damascus in the early hours of the morning. State news agency SANA, quoting its correspondent, said there were reports of “air defenses confronting a hostile target breaching the skies above the area…
Dawn, Pakistan: While the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is claiming that it is in a position to form a coalition government not only in Islamabad but also in three provinces of the country, the party seems to be in a fix, so far, over the selection of its nominees for top slots in Punjab and Khyber…
DOT Desk: The plot of this pala is set against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement of British India during 1942, reports The Dhaka Tribine. Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosthi is set to stage the second installment of their first jatrapala, titled “Biallisher Biplob”, at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. With an aspiration to…
Xinhua At least 31 Filipinos are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) each day in the Philippines, government data showed with the Department of Health (DOH) voicing alarm over the spread in the Philippines of HIV that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Health Secretary Francisco Duque said the number of Filipinos affected by HIV…
UNB Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered 1.20 lakh pieces of Yaba tablets worth Tk 3.5 crore from Hoangbrang bordering area in Teknaf upazila on Friday night. Topped off, a team of BGB led by Hila BoP Company Commander Nazrul Islam conducted a drive in the sluice gate area along…