Reuters Security forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fired live rounds and tear gas on Thursday to scatter demonstrators who burned tires and attacked Ebola centers in protest at their exclusion from the presidential election. The electoral commission (CENI) announced on Wednesday that it was cancelling voting in Sunday’s election in the cities of…
Reuters: China’s defense ministry said on Thursday that it was supporting Afghanistan’s defense and counterterrorism efforts, a day after Beijing denied a plan to build a base in Afghanistan and to send Chinese forces to the war-torn country. China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday dismissed a report by the South China Morning Post that cited sources…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Nagarik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna has suggested that the people must defeat the ruling party through ballots in the upcoming general election, in order to establish their rights. Manna was addressing a programme arranged by the family members of the victims of forced disappearance at the Jatiya Press Club yesterday,…
Samiul Bashar Samin Do you think racial stereotypes are false? Are you sure? I’m not asking if you’re sure whether or not the stereotypes are false, but if you’re sure whether or not you think that they are. That might seem like a strange question. We all know what we think, don’t we? Do we…
BSS Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 arrested two alleged drug traders with 140 grams of heroin from Mokrampur village under Gomostapur upazila of the district on Wednesday night. RAB sources said based on secret information, an operation team of RAB from C’nawabganj camp led by Maj. Mohammad Abdus Salam raided the area at about…
UNB, Dhaka The state-owned Petrobangla on Saturday formed a separate inquiry committee to investigate into the fire incident that originated reportedly due to gas leakage in a Banani house early Friday. Petrobangla director (administration) Md. Mostafa Kamal will head the 4-member committee, said a press release of the state-owned hydrocarbon corporation. The committee…
Reuters: About 200 Kosovo war veterans blocked the road leading to Banje ahead of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s planned visit to the village later on Sunday. Kosovo, which has a population of 1.8 million and is mainly ethnic Albanian, declared independence from Belgrade in 2008, almost a decade after NATO air strikes ousted Serbian forces…
Sabah Mannan As water levels dropped to a reported record low of 70cm, unusual weather has left some of Venice’s legendary canals dried out forcing long flat-bottomed boats popularly known as gondolas to park up on the dry land.A combination of high atmospheric pressure in the upper Adriatic, cold winter weather, low tides caused by…
BSS A view exchange meeting on ‘Anti-Corruption Movement at Local Level: Possibility and Challenge’ was held on Monday at a local hotel in the city. Organised by Sacheton Nagorik Committee (SANAC), the meeting was addressed as chief guest by Khulna divisional commissioner Md Abdus Samad while SANAC president Sheikh Abdul Quyaum was in the chair.