Reuters: The top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader on Tuesday rejected a U.S. offer for top-level meetings, as both countries’ presidents were due to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards also kept up the anti-U.S. rhetoric in the build up to the U.N. session, calling President Donald Trump “evil…
DOT Desk: The return of the Awami League-led grand alliance to power through a landslide election victory is likely to continue and step up the country’s development and growth further, analysts said, reports The Daily Sun. They further said it will help policy continuation which will eventually be conducive for development and contribute to growth…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has advised guardians of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinees to keep enough time in their hands in order to reach the examination centers in time, reports The Daily Star. The DMP cited the heavy traffic congestion at different points in the city due to ongoing construction work;…
AFP Nations most threatened by rising sea levels and devastating droughts will use a UN summit in Poland on Monday to urge richer countries to pay their fair share in the climate change fight. The presidents of at-risk states such as Fiji, Nigeria and Nepal are expected at COP24 talks, which aim to flesh out…
Desk Report The board of directors of Olympic Industries has decided to import capital machinery worth an aggregate amount of Tk 136.87 million for enhancing production capacity. The company will import a wafer manufacturing line, complete with ancillary machinery, from Franz Haas Waffelmaschinen Gmbh, Austia, at an estimated cost of Tk 125.45 million, according to…
Desk Report: Police arrested a leader of pro-BNP youth organisation Jubo Dal with 223 yaba pills in Chattogram city’s Sadarghat area early yesterday, claiming that he was running a yaba business with an aim to collect funds for carrying out subversive activities, reports The daily Star. Arrestee Bappu Kumar Das, 27, is general secretary of…
The Guardian: China is mulling scrapping its controversial birth restrictions, reversing nearly four decades of family planning policies as birth rates fall. Chinese couples are limited to two children at present, after rules were relaxed from the infamous one-child policy that was in force from 1979 to 2016. Now officials are poised to enact a…
Desk Report: Expatriates welfare and overseas employment ministry never took the initiative to ensure safe and orderly migration of workers from Bangladesh as required by the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, better known as GCM, reports The New Age. Geneva based International Organization for Migration, in short IOM, provides secretarial service to…
UNB: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 600 pieces of contraband Yaba pills from Shibnathpur village in Benapole on Wednesday morning. The arrestee was identified as Yanur Rahman, 35, son of Idrish Ali of the village. Acting on a tip-off, a BGB team led by…
Science Alert: For over 70 years, scientists have been predicting the existence of a certain kind of object in the outer Solar System. Small in size, these potential bodies are thought to constitute an important early step in the planet formation process. Since these hypothetical objects are only between 1 and 10 kilometres in radius…