Desk Report: Bus counters at Kalyanpur and Gabtoli saw huge crowd Friday, on the fourth day of Eid ticket sale. Those who were yet to secure trip to their ancestral homes thronged as it was the weekend. However, the bus operators on Thursday said all tickets for four days before Eid were sold out, reports…
Abrar Hussain: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia has announced a three-day extension to the ongoing Traffic Week countrywide. He made with the announcement at a press briefing held at the DMP Media Centre yesterday noon, reported Banglanews. “Meanwhile, we are gaining positive results of the Traffic Week that began on August 5. Progress…
Channel News Asia: Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed Monday (Aug 7) his country would not be threatened by a wall, in a thinly veiled rebuke to US President Donald Trump’s jabs across the border. “Mexico is going to become a power – and will change the balance of power. Nobody will threaten us…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country’s drawback in power sector during BNP regime was unprecedented. “I don’t know whether people of any country have such a bitter experience,” she said while inaugurating National Power and Energy Week 2018 at a function at Bashundhara City International Convention Center in the city,…
Reuters: North Korea’s state-controlled newspaper on Sunday accused the United States of “double-dealing” and “hatching a criminal plot” against Pyongyang, after Washington abruptly canceled a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Negotiations have been all but deadlocked since U.S. President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June….
Masum A H M, Head of National Operations at Garda Shield : Internet – The “Information Superhighway” is also a major source of misinformation. Twisted people with their vested interests often cooks up news and fake information to misguide netizens. I know, now a day’s people are smart enough to trust whatever they read in the…
AFP: Brazil will send troops to its border with Venezuela on Monday after residents of the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima drove out Venezuelan immigrants from their improvised camps, amid growing regional tensions. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have crossed the border into Brazil over the past three years as they seek to escape the…
Reuters: South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar refused to sign the latest draft of a peace deal with the Juba government that would end a years-long conflict, Sudan’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. “The main opposition party, led by Machar, as well as another group, refused to sign, demanding guarantees over their reservations” about the…
Washington Post: In Australia, snakes sometimes slither into suburban backyards and homes. When the weather gets warm, they lounge in the sun. When it gets hot, they seek cool places: a wall crevice, under a refrigerator, under a barbecue grill, behind an air-conditioning unit. When it gets too hot and dry, they seek places with…
NTV Online Bangladesh national cricket team, led by proud skipper Mashrafe Mortaza, returned home after a ‘successful tour’ in the final of the Asia Cup against India in UAE. The team on Saturday night reached the Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport in Dhaka at 11:30pm by a special flight. Bangladesh team was received cordially at…