DOT Desk After playing a Test and an One-day International series, Bangladesh and the visiting West Indies are now gearing up for the three-match T20 International series which is set to begin today (Monday) at Sylhet International Stadium, reports Daily Sun. Bangladesh clinched both the series by showing tremendous effort against the vesting West Indies….
AFP: Malaysia’s prime minister said Monday he will seek to cancel multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed infrastructure projects that were signed by his predecessor as his government works to dig itself out of debt, and he blasted Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims as “grossly unjust.” Prime Minister made the comments during a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press days…
UNB, Beanibazar Two siblings, Samia, 5, and Hanif, 4, have been forced to go begging at Arizkha village in Beanibazar upazila as their parents have left them over family feud. Nearly a month back, the father, Oliur Rahman, 35, disappeared leaving the family in the lurch and later the mother, Rina Begum, 27, went away…
M Humayun Kabir The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started an investigation into allegations against Ananta Kumar Sinha, the brother of former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, for laundering money to purchase a three-storey home in the US. ACC Public Relations official Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said the ACC launched the investigation after scrutinising an allegation filed…
Hossen Sohel: Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said yesterday that Germany had reached a deal with Italy to return migrants who have already applied for asylum there and added he expected it to be signed soon, reports Reuters. That comes after the German government agreed in August with both Greece and Spain to send migrants back…
Metro.co.UK:Earth may only be decades away from a climatic tipping point that triggers runaway global warming and threatens the future of humanity, scientists have warned. The threshold will be reached when average global temperatures are only around 2C higher than they were in pre-industrial times, new research suggests. They are already 1C higher and rising….
Desk Report: The businessmen in Kuakata sea beach area are worried as erosion has taken a serious turn in recent days due to tidal surge, reports Daily Star. Locals said tidal surge is the main cause of erosion in Kuakata. At least 10 feet of a paved road at Kuakata Zero Point were washed away…
MEMO: Israeli Prison Services yesterday transferred Palestinian female writer, Lama Khater, from the Ashkelon prison to the Hasharon prison, after detaining her for 34 days. Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) lawyer, Firas Al-Sabbah, said in a statement that 42-year-old Khater will attend an eighth court hearing session tomorrow under the pretext of completing judicial proceedings. Khater…
NDTV: Lying down on top of an unexploded World War II shell is “strictly ill-advised”, officials on Thursday told a Dutchman who found one in his garden. The man, from Venlo, in the south of country, spent three and a half hours lying over the device when it started whistling after he discovered it Wednesday…
DOT Desk The turtle was caught by fishermen at the Tulatuli area of the Meghna River. A 47kg weight endangered Ridley sea turtle has been rescued in Bhola by the Forest Department, reports Dhaka Tribune. The turtle was caught by fishermen at the Tulatuli area of the Meghna River on Wednesday. This breed of turtle…