Desk Report: Bangladesh has emerged as the fifth largest wheat importer in the world, with its import of the grain increasing by 36 per cent over the past five years, according to a report of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), reports Prothom Alo. Among the fastest growing importing countries, Bangladesh imported 5.5…
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…
Abrar Hussain: A Dhaka court yesterday set June 10 as the date for submitting the probe report over the college student Rajib’s death case. Rajib had unfortunately lost his right hand after being sandwiched between two buses in the capital.Dhaka Metropolitan magistrate Golam Nabi fixed the new date because the investigation officer and Shahbagh police…
UNB Social change is natural and it is primarily invisible in most cases like the falling hairline unless there is anything revolutionary. We see dramatic changes in our society when there is turbulent politics and social movements. Media people and researchers observe the changes, study those and come up with their findings after a time…
Reuters: Japan must act urgently to protect tens of thousands of workers laboring to clean up the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station from reported exploitation and exposure to radiation, U.N. human rights experts said on Thursday. Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings (Tepco), which owns the nuclear power station that was struck by a tsunami…
Desk Report: To give a relief from every pressure and tension of the arrangement of a wedding or a corporate arrangement of the city dweller, an IT firm called “Cloud Next Generation Limited” come forwarded with a new initiative, reports Asian Age. They have built a web platform named VENUE.com.bd that will serve you information…
A bill to legalise abortion services in the Republic of Ireland has passed all stages of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament). The Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill will now be given to the President to be signed into law. The Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill allows for abortion services to be provided “on demand”…
Abrar Hussain of DOT New satellite images have shown one of China’s most prominent naval shipbuilding harbors to have expanded rapidly in the past decade amid a massive military modernization push by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Jiangnan Shipyard, located in Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River, was opened in 2008 but it…
Al Jazeera: The cost to rebuild Kerala following the severe flooding that hit the southern Indian state will exceed $3.7bn, authorities said. Almost 500 people were killed and a million left homeless after the worst floods in a century hit the coastal state in May. The torrential rains destroyed tens of thousands of homes, ruined…