MEMO: Floods in Sudan have destroyed 33 villages and displaced 10,000 families in the country’s eastern province of Gedaref. The floods have raged throughout the country over the past few months, having been caused by continuous rains of the annual rainy season. This season’s floods, however, are the worst in at least 25 years, resulting…
M Humayun Kabir: The locations of four among the six assassins of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman have yet to be traced in the nine years since they were sentenced to death. The negotiations have yet to bear fruit to extradite the two other convicts, who have been located abroad, home to face the penalty, reports…
The Guardian, UK: The Specials singer Neville Staple has spoken of the “heartbreaking loss” of his grandson, who has been stabbed to death aged 21. Fidel, son of Staple’s daughter Melanie, was rushed to hospital in a life-threatening condition after being stabbed in Coventry in the early hours of Saturday. He was found at the…
Hindustan Times: Delhi woke up to waterlogged streets and traffic jams after heavy rains hit several parts of the city as well as its surrounding areas in the wee hours of Tuesday. Heavy rain accompanied by lightning was reported around the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, Teen Murti Bhavan and RK Puram, among other areas…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Two workers died in a fire that broke out at a market in Palong Uttar Bazar of Shariatpur around 5am yesterday. At least 14 other shops were destroyed in total, according to Mohammad Moniruzzaman, chief of the local police station. The dead have been identified as Polash Bairagi, 25, and Bishwajit…
Desk Report At least 125 people were killed and 200 injured in two bombings that hit Baghdad around midnight Saturday, nearly all of them in a blast targeting a busy shopping area as they celebrated Ramadan, police and medical sources said Sunday. A refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up in Karrada in central Baghdad,…
Desk Report: The 10th International Inter University Short Film Festival has introduced a new category titled “Short Film on Refugee” this year with a call to submit short films on refugees, reports Daily Sun. 10th International Inter-University Short Film Festival- 2018” organised by Dhaka University Film Society (DUFS) in association with United Nations High Commissioner…
Reported by: Nashrat Arshiyana Chowdhury Written by: Eshan Maitra Helal Sheikh submitted his petition as candidate for the position of New City Councilman. To the Board of Election (BoE) in Manhattan New York, on Sunday. It included signatures of his 2,000 registered democratic voters from his electoral area of Queens District 32. Along with his…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Latif Siddique has notified the Election Commission that he is quitting the upcoming general election. The independent candidate for Tangail-4 made the announcement after a meeting with the Chief Election Commissioner Nurul Huda yesterday. “I’m not running in the election. There isn’t a level playing field. My supporters are being harassed…
Culture Trip As far as crazy rich Asians go, it seems that most of them are living in crazy rich Hong Kong. According to a new report from data firm, Wealth-X, Hong Kong has more people worth at least £23 million than any other city. The report states that the semi-autonomous city in China saw…