Afsan Chowdhury/Southasian monitor.com “India is such a big country and economy, it should not worry about OBOR. Rather, it can also join so that all the countries can benefit economically,” Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently said in an interview to CNN-News18 television channel. Mentioning “Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC)”, an agreement to establish connectivity, Hasina…
Raj Ahmed of DOT Army chief Gen. Aziz Ahmed has called on voters to go to polling stations without fear. During an inspection of a temporary military camp in Azimpur yesterday, he urged the roughly 104 million voters to go the polls center today to cast their ballots for the 299 parliamentary seats. He added…
Reuters: China’s top newspaper rebutted growing criticism in government circles that Beijing should have taken a lower profile to head off its trade war with the United States, saying on Friday that, like an elephant, China cannot hide its size and strength. The growing trade conflict is causing rifts within China’s Communist Party, with…
Afrida Ahmed: The BNP announced yesterday that they will stage demonstration in the capital on Wednesday even though they were denied permission to hold a rally that was scheduled for yesterday, reports observerbd.This announcement was made by BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed at a press conference at the party’s Naya Paltan central…
BBC: Fuku-shima residents have reacted angrily to the statue of a boy in protective gear, saying it gives the impression of a city still contaminated after the 2011 nuclear disaster. Fukushima’s nuclear plant was hit by a tsunami in 2011, causing the most serious such accident since Chernobyl. The statue was erected in early August…
Desk Report: In an utter disregard for multiple government and court orders, locally-made three-wheelers and other low-speed vehicles continue to operate on national highways, causing frequent road crashes, reports The Daily Star. The plying of slow and fast vehicles side by side remains a major cause of accidents that claim thousands of lives every year….
UNB A court here on Monday convicted four people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a young man in 2004 in Savar. The lifers-Selam Uddin, Abdur Rauf, Waz Uddin and Kujrat Ali of Ghashirdia village in Savar, were also fined Tk 10,000 each. According to the prosecution, the convicts had killed Mohammad…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : The Election Commission has completed its last-minute preparations for the upcoming 11th general election to 299 parliamentary constituencies starting at 8am tomorrow. Some 39 registered political parties are contesting the polls, making it a participatory one after 10 years of waiting since the January 5 election of 2014 was boycotted…
Banglanews24: Forest Department officials have seized 25 kilograms of venison from a boat in Terkati canal of Sundarbans under Satkhira range on Thursday (Jan 17) night. On secret information, a team of the coast guard conducted the drive at Terkati canal. The seized venison will be sent to the court, KM Kabir also said. Sensing…