Reuters: Khurshid Alam says he pulls 17-hour shifts three days a week driving a private bus in Dhaka, where tens of thousands of students held angry protests for over a week demanding an end to rash driving that killed two teenagers late last month. Prime Minister Sheik Hasina’s government has moved swiftly to defuse the…
Mohammad Ali Sattar Dear good friend, I was one of the serious souls who watched your movements and travails all along the period (starting June 26) of your mighty struggle to find your way back home and above all to live. Your valorous acts, stubborn stand and frustration all showed. Reports say “..the wild male,…
UNB China on Thursday accused the U.S.-allied Philippines of “political provocation” in seeking international arbitration over territorial claims in the South China Sea, driving home its intention to ignore the proceedings despite pressure from Washington. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the decision by Philippine leaders to lodge a case with a tribunal in The…
MEMO: The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, cancelled a planned visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for yesterday as a result of Israel’s renewed air strikes on the besieged Strip. The UN peace envoy said in a statement yesterday morning that he was “deeply alarmed by the recent…
Preparations have begun to welcome Baishakh as the month of Choitro draws to an end. Charukala has started arranging the Mongol Shobhajatra, reports Somoy TV. ‘Aanondoloke Mongolaloke’ from the famous Rabindra Sangeet will be the slogan of this year’s rally along with a bright smiley face of the sun. Behind that will be an ugly…
Maureen Callahan/New York Post In a unanimous decision, the Association for Library Service to Children renamed a lifetime achievement award honoring Laura Ingalls Wilder for her contribution to children’s literature. As of June, it is now the generic “Children’s Literature Legacy Award.” Wilder’s books, the ALSC said, are now deemed unacceptable, containing “expressions of stereotypical…
Banglanews24: February 1, 2 have been fixed to celebrate Jatiya Kabita Utshab on the premises of Dhaka University. The organizers of National Poetry Council made the announcement at a news conference at TSC of DU on Friday (January 11). Poet Asad chowdhury will inaugurate the function. The registration for the festival, as already has begun…
AFP Pacific island nations have vowed to oppose US efforts to increase its catch limit in the world’s largest tuna fishery, saying the proposal does nothing to improve sustainable fishing. The United States is expected to try to increase its quota for bigeye tuna at a meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission…
AFP: More than 70,000 people have been left homeless in the deadly earthquake that hit Lombok island, forced to sleep in makeshift shelters and lacking food, medicine and clean water, authorities said Wednesday. The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake killed at least 105 people and triggered panic among locals and tourists on Lombok on Sunday, just a week…
The second South Asian Youth Summit – 2018 would begin from November 28 in Sri Lankan capital Colombo. The organisers in a press release said this year the three-day summit would be held with the global theme of ‘Creating a Sustainable Future in a Fractured South Asia’. International Youth Committee will host the summit as…