The Guardian: Charles Leclerc has praised the halo cockpit protection device after walking away unharmed from a huge accident at Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix. The halo received criticism when imposed by the FIA at the start of this season but, despite Leclerc admitting he was not a fan of the device, the fact he avoided…
NDTV George HW Bush’s spokesman has shared a heartbreaking photograph of the late US president’s service dog lying in front of his casket. Jim McGrath posted a picture on Sunday of the yellow Labrador retriever, named Sully, lying in front of Mr Bush’s flag-draped casket. “Mission complete. #Remembering41,” he captioned the touching picture. The 41st…
BBC: At least 15 people were killed when a landslide crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in south-eastern Peru, officials say. The impact of the mud and rocks forced the building’s walls and roof to cave in while guests were inside dancing. Twenty-nine people were injured and had to be pulled from the…
Duncan Bartlett writes for DOT : Democracy is like a precious crop. It needs to be carefully nurtured in order to flourish. In Bangladesh – a country with a recent history of political assassinations, coups and war – democracy is still developing. Its roots have not yet grown very deep. I am concerned that there…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Supreme Court Bar Association President Advocate Zainul Abedin demanded the Election Commission to cancel the results of the 11th parliamentary election and hold a re-election under a non-partisan and neutral government, reports The Daily Star. The SCBA president urged the Supreme Court yesterday to issue a suo moto order on the…
UNB: Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali has called on Bimstec nations to enhance their security cooperation to “defeat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.” He was speaking at a panel discussion on Monday in New Delhi with heads of mission from Bimstec member states in India ahead of the fourth Bimstec…
Hossen Sohel: In an effort to reach common people and highlight the development works undertaken by the government, Awami League leaders began an election campaign by road yesterday, reports Financial Express and The Daily Star. A team of AL leaders led by the Secretary General Obaidul Quader started from the Awami League President’s Office in…
Md Sharif Hasanis, Commentator on international politics/BDnews24 More than four million people, nearly the population of Croatia, will no longer be Indian citizens, according to the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The decision was made by the state government of Assam recently when it announced its citizen list. This exercise has been conducted for the…
Sejuti Mourin: BNP has rejected the proposed national budget, claiming that the government has placed the colossal budget for “looting money ahead of the general election”, reports NewAge. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the allegation at a news briefing at the party central office in Dhaka yesterday. The BNP leader claimed that…