Mustapha Karkouti, Columnist and former president of the Foreign Press Association, London/Gulf News Global community should search all possible options that would put an end to this bloody war that has led to so much suffering ‘I believe that with this agreement we prevented a humanitarian crisis in Idlib,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently…
Abid Sarker Shohag It took Bangladesh quite a long time to understand the format. But it seems Bangladesh has now unlocked the secret to cricket. They played a successful Asia Cup where they finished as runners-up. Now the question is can Tigers win their first major ICC tournament? I will give you a few reasons…
UNB Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Asean must take tough measures to put pressure on Myanmar and its de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to end atrocities against the Muslim Rohingya. “We can appeal to the government of Myanmar, but if there is no response and the atrocities continue, Asean must support…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has initiated a move to adopt latest version of IP (internet protocol) addressing system that would allow the regulatory body along with other government agencies to monitor internet users more accurately, said BTRC officials, reports The New Age. Scarcity of IP addresses under the existing version of IP addressing…
Written by: Eshan Maitra Tower Hamlets in Britain is famous for major Bangladeshi population in that area. Even, the proud community had the first Bangladeshi MP of British Parliament to come from there. Unfortunately, a part of teens & young-adults there, are getting involved into heinous crimes from drug trafficking, smuggling & even murders. Bangladeshi…
Dipu Akter University of Strasbourg, France Email: akter.dipu@orange.fr On 29th February 2016 The Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company Ltd (BIFPCL), (a joint initiative of India’s National Thermal Power Company and Bangladesh’s Power Development Board) signed an agreement to construct a coal-based power plant at Rampal, near Sundarban. This project was expected to be started…
AFP: Right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to crack down on political corruption, violent crime and ignite a moribund economy with deregulation and fiscal discipline, will be sworn in as Brazil’s president on Tuesday. The former Army captain and seven-term fringe congressman rode a wave of anti-establishment anger to became Brazil’s first far-right president…
MEMO: Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday refused to retreat in her country’s row with Saudi Arabia over the human rights situation in the kingdom. “Canada will always defend human rights around the world… including women’s rights,” Freeland said at an annual gathering of ambassadors in the German capital, Berlin, without specifically referring to Saudi…
Hasaan Khawar, Public policy expert and an honorary Fellow of Consortium for Development Policy Research/ The Express Tribune The Supreme Court of Pakistan recently gave a month’s notice to parliament to amend the ‘voluntary return’ provision in the National Accountability Ordinance. In its election manifesto, the PTI already committed to address the legal lacunas in…
Sejuti Mourin: BNP will stage demonstrations in the capital on Sunday protesting what the party claimed to be was the denial of police permission for holding its Saturday’s rescheduled rally in the city. Party’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the initiative at a press conference at its Naya Paltan central office yesterday,…