Arab News: Thousands of Guatemalans took to the streets on Saturday, some in protest and others in support of President Jimmy Morales’s bid to close a UN anti-corruption mission that sought to investigate him on suspicion of campaign finance violations. Marchers chanted and waved banners reading “We reject the government of the corrupt” and “We…
UNB: A high-level delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque, paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara in Gopalganj on Sunday. The Foreign Secretary was accompanied by the senior officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and their spouses and children. During…
BSS: Ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival for the Muslims, cattle markets in the city and nine upazilas of the district along with its adjacent areas are getting vibrant with numerous buyers and hundreds of sacrificial animals.
Anadolu Agency: The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on China to release the detained Uighurs in Xinjiang, an autonomous region in the country. The report, adopted by the committee at its 96th session between August 6-30, said the committee is “concerned” by the Chinese legislation having a “broad definition of…
Sayeed Muhammad: Myanmar National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said the country is willing to take back all 700,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh if they volunteer to return. He was speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional security conference in Singapore, where he was asked if the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where…
DOT Desk A man has died in police custody in Dhaka, hours after his arrest, reports The Financial Express. He breathed his last at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after he complained of chest pains, according to the police. The accused Ripon was taken to Jatrabari Police Station after his arrest from the Kajla Sheikhdi…
DOT Desk The west zone of Bangladesh Railway (BR) has implemented more than 10 development projects involving around Tk 7,783.84 crore to infuse dynamism into railway transportation along with boosting quality of services, reports The Financial Express. “We have implemented diversified infrastructural uplift works like construction of new railway line, station remodeling and launching…
DOT Desk: The Jatiya Oikyafront yesterday demanded that the Election Commission immediately scrap the “farcical election” and hold a fresh one under a nonpartisan interim government, reports The Daily Star. “We reject this so-called result. At the same time, we demand fresh polls under a nonpartisan government,” Oikyafront leader Dr Kamal Hossain said at a…
CNN: NASA counted down Saturday to the launch of its $1 billion ICESat-2 mission, using advanced lasers to uncover the true depth of the melting of Earth’s ice sheets. The mission will inform sea level rise forecasts and is “exceptionally important for science,” according to Richard Slonaker, ICESat-2 program executive at NASA. The half-ton satellite…
Hossen Sohel: In a major victory for the Muslim women, the Indian Cabinet yesterday approved an ordinance making Triple Talaq a punishable offence. The cabinet approved an executive order on the amended Triple Talaq Bill that was deferred to the next session of parliament, reports NDTV. In early August, parties in the Rajya Sabha…