Durga Puja security: Police asked to monitor social media

    Desk Report Members of law enforcement agencies have been directed to monitor all social media platforms to prevent any kind of rumor or campaign aiming to destroy communal harmony during the upcoming Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of Hindu community, reports Daily Asian Age. Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary gave…

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      The Spanish town that wants to shed 100,000kg

      Channelnewsasia : In a remote corner of northwestern Spain, a small town has set itself the ultimate weight loss challenge: by early 2020, its residents must shed 100,000kg (220,500 pounds). Gone are bacon and fried calamari from the diets of thousands of residents in Naron who are taking to sport again as part of a…

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        Traffic sergeant turns social media hero

        Desk Report The incident happened in front of a school on Tuesday in Dhaka’s Mirpur, reports Asian Age. A video post by traffic police sergeant Jhoton Shikder shows argument with a woman sitting at a parked black car. The police man says: “Why are you making people suffer parking illegally? Answer this.” “Do you know…

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          Ecological confce at DU today

          Desk Report: A two-day-long international conference on climate change and environmental issue titled ‘China, South and Southeast Asian Conference on Envi-ronment and Ecological Risk Management’ will begin at Dhaka University today, reports Asian Age. Faculty of Earth and Environment of Dhaka University and Hunan University of China are jointly organizing the program to extend the…

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            Upazila chairman ‘rapes’ woman promising sewing machine

            Desk Report The chairman of Bishwambharpur upazila parishad in Sunamganj district allegedly raped a mother of four children inside his office promising to provide her a sewing machine, reports Prothom Alo. The alleged perpetrator is Harun-or-Rashid, chairman of the upazila and former president of Biswambharpur upazila unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). On information,…

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              China executes man who killed 9 in school stabbing

              Arafat Hasan: China executed a man yesterday for killing nine students and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in central China’s Shaanxi province in April, according to a post on a Chinese court’s official social media account. Zhao Zewei was sentenced to death in July after being charged with homicide…

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                HRW: Iraqis forcibly disappeared in ISIL crackdown

                Al Jazeera Dozens of Iraqi men and boys have been forcibly disappeared by Iraqi security forces since 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). In a report published on Thursday, the rights group said 74 mostly Sunni Arab men and four boys had been disappeared between April 2014 and October 2017, often in the context…

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