M Humayun Kabir: Bus owners and workers have stopped operating transport services in different districts since yesterday morning citing safety of the workers and vehicles following student movement. The students of schools and colleges mainly from Dhaka took to the streets demanding safety on the roads and justice for their two fellows who were killed…
Jafar Ahmed There is lack of transparency & accountability checks in the economic sector of Bangladesh. It creating scopes for the great irregularities in the system. Former Chairman of Janata Bank, economist Dr. Abul Barkat made these statements at the pre-event seminar of 20th Biennial Conference of Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA), on yesterday. He also…
Abrar Hussain: Justice Ranjan Gogoi has been appointed the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), according to a statement by the country’s Ministry of Law on Thursday. He is to assume office on October 3 after the retirement of Justice Dipak Misra. Justice Gogoi will have a little over one year before he demits office…
UNB A young man was stabbed to death by rival over previous enmity at Panchkitta village of Muradnagar upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Nazrul Islam, 24, son of Abdul Malek, a resident of the village. Quoting locals, Mohammad Nurul Alam, sub-inspector of Muradnagar Police Station, said there had been an enmity…
The Guardian, UK: Thousands of rideshare drivers across Australia were not picking up passengers for the transport giant Uber during the morning commute on Monday in a protest aimed at making its service fairer for drivers. Ride Share Drivers United want Uber to stop using upfront pricing and go back to paying drivers for the…
BBC It is likely to be the most critical and controversial report on climate change in recent years. Leading scientists are meeting in South Korea this week to see if global temperatures can be kept from rising by more than 1.5C this century. The world has already passed one degree of warming as carbon emissions…
Sustir Sarker, Netrokona Prime Minister’s office secretary Sajjadul Hassan and justice Obaydul Hassan Shahin’s aunt Ayesha Aktar died on Saturday at 5.00am at Netrokona Jaynagar. At the time of her death, she was 90 years old. She is the mother of Kamrul Hassan Selim, Suair Union Parishad Chairman. Her first namaz-e-janaza was held after Juma…
Reuters: Southeast Asian nations hope to strike a joint agreement on cybersecurity in coming days with Russia, accused by the United States of meddling in its elections, after a series of high-profile hacks in the region. The draft of a document seen by Reuters discusses formalizing an agreement with Russia. It is set to be…
Michael Goodwin/New York Post As I sat a few feet from President Trump while he ripped special counsel Robert Mueller and warned Democrats he is preparing a devastating counterpunch, the phrase “The Gathering Storm” came to mind. That’s the title of Volume I of Winston Churchill’s masterful history of World War II. It also describes…
Banglanews24: Bangla-desh has selected celebrated filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s film ‘Doob’ as its entry to the foreign language category at the 91st Academy Awards. Bangladesh Federation of Film Societies disclosed the announcement, at a press briefing held at a Karwan Bazar hotel, around 12pm Sunday (September 23). Director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Actress Nusrat Imrose Tisha,…