UNB: With a hope to retain the title, a 23-member Bangladesh Women’s Football team left for Bhutan on Monday to participate in the 2nd SAFF Under-15 Women’s Championship-2018 to be held in Bhutanese capital Thimphu on August 9-18. A Drukair flight carrying them took off from Hazrat Shahjajal International Airport at 9am. Defending champions Bangladesh,…
Klaus Jurgens, Political analyst, journalist/Daily Sabah, Turkey Four weeks from today President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to Germany on an official state visit. That will be a grand occasion indeed, highlighting the amicable level of Turkish-German relations. Are there issues at stake? Of course, but sorting it out is what friends do. In this…
AFP: Ikea’s first Indian outlet opened on Thursday, with more than 200 eager shoppers queueing in the underground car park to escape the heat as a military band played a crowd-pleasing medley inside. The store in the southern city of Hyderabad is the first of 25 outlets the Swedish furniture giant hopes to open by…
Franklin Foer, Staff writer for The Atlantic/The Atlantic Remembering my grandmother, whose improbable survival became the foundational story for my family’s existence There were the scissors that my grandmother somehow remembered to bring with her as she fled. She could hear the rumble of destruction in the distance. She could see the cloud of smoke…
DOT Desk Two men were arrested with petrol bombs from Khulshi of Chattogram city, reports The New Age. They were named as Md Jabed, 40, and Md Ruhul Amin, 41, by police’s Detective Branch. Md Mizanur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DB (North), said they arrested the duo with 18 petrol bombs from near Tigerpass Agencies…
DOT Desk: The inaugural ceremony of the group art exhibition titled, Guru-Shishsho: Shishsho- Guru (Preceptor-Disciple: Disciple-Preceptor) is all set commenced yesterday at 5:30 pm at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka, reports The Daily Star BD. Portraits of towering cultural personalities like Tagore, Nazrul, and the contemporary socio-political and cultural features can also be observed…
BSS: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) yesterday approved six projects including an amended proposal on the project for the construction of a permanent trade fair centre at Purbachal. The approval came from an ECNEC meeting held at the NEC conference room in the city yesterday with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister…
Reuters: Southeast Asian nations hope to strike a joint agreement on cybersecurity in coming days with Russia, accused by the United States of meddling in its elections, after a series of high-profile hacks in the region. The draft of a document seen by Reuters discusses formalizing an agreement with Russia. It is set to be…
AP: Didi Chuxing, the biggest ride-sharing firm globally by number of trips, was “immensely saddened by the tragedy,” it said in a statement. “We are deeply sorry. We fell short of your expectations. We cannot and we would not shirk from our responsibilities,” it said. The incident took place as Didi has been stepping up…