The Guardian, UK: Glasgow’s foremost arts and culture venue, the Centre for Contemporary Arts, faces a “permanent hollowing out” as it enters its fourth month of enforced closure caused by the Glasgow School of Art fire. Its director, Francis McKee, believes the CCA has been brought to the brink by a fundamental failure on the…
UNB: Beyond the popular ones, many new but potential tourist spots across the country remain unexplored mainly for lack of a proper plan for the development and promotion of tourism products, experts say. Many new tourist spots are emerging in hills, less-known beach and forest areas and other remarkable places in different corners of Bangladesh…
Arafat Hasan: Both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will kick off the latest edition of the Asia Cup today, with injuries ahead of their game in Dubai. Unfortunately for Bangladesh, all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan needs a surgery on his left little finger, but has pushed it back till after the Asia Cup; Tamim Iqbal, the senior…
The Guardian, UK: A protest by prison staff over violence and safety fears has been called off after talks with the government. Early on yesterday morning the Prison Officers Association ordered its 20,000 members working in English and Welsh prisons to protest outside their workplaces “until instructed otherwise”. The union has called off the walkout…
Sky News: A commuter who discovered that two ferry crossings and three bike rides were quicker than using the train has taken his bizarre route to work for the last time before retiring. Maths lecturer Dr Michael McCabe lives in the New Forest and worked at the University of Portsmouth. There was a train journey…
AFP: Ugandan navy speedboats sliced through murky Lake Edward towards a fleet of wooden canoes carrying illegal fishermen from the Democratic Republic of Congo, hightailing it back to their own waters. “Stop the boat, hands up, surrender any weapons,” yelled Lieutenant Deogratius Kato as the soldiers surrounded a motorised canoe after a 20-minute chase, pointing…
The Guardian, UK: The number of children put on to local authority care plans because their parents have been accused of emotional abuse has soared over the past decade, research has found, amid warnings that some families are being broken up without justification. Analysis of national care statistics shows that the use of “emotional abuse”…
Soumyadipta Banerjee Daily O, India Twitter admitted that it has been profiling its users, monitoring them actively through artificial intelligence, ranking them, restricting them and also making them ‘disappear’ at times. On July 26, 2018, US President Donald Trump declared war on Twitter from his Twitter account. He accused Twitter of shadow banning prominent Republican…
M Humayun Kabir: Bangladesh has sought the cooperation of the United States for implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) to expand market access for Bangladeshi goods to the US market. Bangladesh also made a special request for increasing duty-free market facilities in light of World Trade Organization’s Bali Ministerial decisions, according to a press…
Barrister Al Amin Rahman, Advocate, Bangladesh Supreme Court and Partner at FM Associates, Bangladesh : Medical negligence is a common incident in Bangladesh. Every day and even every minute a lot of patients are becoming victims of medical negligence. The term ‘negligence’ has been defined by Rattan Lal and Dhiraj Lal as the “breach of a…