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The Guardian, UK: US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart of the American embassy in Moscow for more than a decade, the Guardian has learned. The Russian national had been hired by the US Secret Service and is understood to have had access to the agency’s intranet…

Suzana Rahman Spa-rking personal freedoms debate, new wave of protests spread across country. Police in the capital of Iran arrested 29 women accused of being “deceived” into joining protests against a law that makes wearing the Hijab compulsory. Women are in protest throughout the country by climbing onto telecom boxes, taking off  their headscarves and…

DOT Desk Kolkata’s popular singer Anupam Roy is coming to Dhaka for a thirty-first night concert. His band “The Anupam Roy Band” will perform in the concert, reports The Daily Observer. The concert will be a joint one with performances from Tahsan Khan from Bangladesh. It could not immediately be confirmed whether other performers would…

AFP: The Iraqi parliament will hold an emergency session today to discuss a water contamination crisis which has triggered protests in which eight people have died in the southern city Basra. Lawmakers would “discuss the problems, the solutions and the latest situation” in the city, where anger over poor public services has boiled over after the…

Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Over 95,000 voters, including former prime minister Khaleda Zia and some ex-MPs, who are in jail, are missing to exercise their voting right today, with Election Commission taking no initiative in this regard. Former National Human Right Commission chairman Mizanur Rahman said there was no doubt that their basic right to…

Sofian Khan: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made allegations against the election commission and officers of the administration that they are prepared to set a new record of poll rigging in Gazipur city corporation mayoral polls on Tuesday. “There is no symptom or atmosphere that the Gazipur City Corporation elections scheduled to be…

BSS The electricity generation capacity reached to 20,430 MW this year bringing more than 91 percent people under elasticity coverage from earlier 47 percent. “The present government’s vision is to supply uninterrupted electricity to all citizens by 2021 with a view to turning Bangladesh into a middle income country,” State Minister for Power, Energy and…

Desk Report: As a part of the world’s celebration of Teachers’ Day 2018, Google Doodle paid a special tribute to the mentors of our lives, reports Daily Star. A spinning globe with spectacles accompanied by all the major topics of knowledge like astronomy and biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, music and sports. This year, World Teachers’…