Anadolu Agency: The U.K’s. ambassador to the UN warned Friday if civilians are harmed by a military offensive in Idlib, officers and units of Bashar al-Assad’s regime would be held accountable. “We should be crystal clear about this: there are more babies in Idlib than there are terrorists, and I think that should give those…
Desk Report: The directors’ association in Dhallywood created another stumbling block for Jaaz Multimedia’s new venture ‘Beporowa’, scheduled to be released this Eid. They claimed the guidelines set by Bangladesh government for joint-venture films had not been followed, reports Prothom Alo. The production house has to import the film to release it in Bangladesh, the…
Desk Report: A rapid depreciation of emerging market currencies, including Indian rupee, will hit Bangladesh’s export competitiveness and may cause rise in payments for cheap imports, economists and exporters fear, reports Financial Express. They apprehend that Bangladesh’s competitiveness in readymade garments exports to the US and the EU countries may be affected as the currencies…
Raj Abrar: United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet had called on for a new quasi-judicial body yesterday to collect evidence for future prosecution of crimes against Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar, including murder and torture. An independent UN team of investigators said in a report last month that there was evidence indicating “genocidal intent” by…
DOT Desk The world is heading in the wrong direction to slow climate change after another year of near-record temperatures, said the head of UN’s weather agency, reports The Daily Sun. “We are not on track to meet climate change targets and rein in temperature increases,” UN News quoted Prof PetteriTaalas, Secretary-General of the World…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : BNP and Jatiya Oikya Front has demanded the scope of fielding alternative candidates or rescheduling the election to the parliamentary constituencies where the High Court has disqualified candidates on different grounds. BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan submitted a letter to Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday afternoon…
Sky News: A parasite that infects the brain could be the secret weapon of business tycoons, as it affects a person’s risk-taking behaviour, a study says. Researchers said that entrepreneurship was characterised as a “high risk, high reward” activity which was often accompanied by a loss of one’s financial stability. But toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled…
Kabir Humayun: BNP leaders and activists brought out a sudden procession in Dhaka’s Shantinagar yesterday, demanding immediate release of their party chief Khaleda Zia. The rally led by its Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, brought out on the main road adjacent to Shantinagar Bazar, also protested the trial of BNP acting Chairman Tarique…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT President M Abdul Hamid has instructed the judges and others concerned to ensure hassle-free justice for the litigants, including the poor ones, as soon as possible. “It’s people’s fundamental right to get justice . . . There is nothing to show kindness or sympathy to the justice-seekers,” he said in a…
Confusion We have two hemispheres in our brains; it is two brains each doing half the work of being you. Your two brains coordinate though a wire of nerves, but this wire can be cut and was for a time used as an epilepsy treatment. People remained almost the same during this split-brain situation while…