The Independent, BD: Audience-admired actress Aruna Biswas is set to appear in the television commercial (TVC) after a long hiatus of 25 years. The actress has recently been featured as a model in a TVC of Robi directed by Sakib Fahad. DhakaLive has news that the shooting of the TVC was completed last week in…
Kabir Humayun: BNP is taking necessary preparations to come up with street programmes to push for Khaleda Zia’s release from jail and holding a credible election, said party’s BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed. “We need to forget about having Khaleda Zia released from jail through legal process …street movement is now the only way for…
Reuters: China culled more than 38,000 hogs as of Sept. 1 due to African swine fever outbreaks, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday. China, where pork is a staple meat, has reported five swine fever cases in five different provinces in a month, prompting authorities to cull hogs to contain the outbreak. Epidemic culling and…
Russia Today: The Netherlands will end its support for Syrian militants, since the program did not yield the “expected” results. Earlier, journalists found one of the groups had been labeled ‘terrorist’ by the Dutch justice department. “The opportunity to quickly change the situation [in Syria] is extremely small,” reads the letter the lower house of…
M Humayun Kabir: Expressing deep concern about Digital Security Act which was passed on September 18 by the parliament, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in a letter to the Bangladesh president has urged him to return it to the parliament for a review. CPJ, an independent press freedom advocacy organisation, published the letter on…
Sabah Mannan of DOT : A popular online TV host named Wanchaleom Jamneanphol is facing charges under Thailand’s strict cyber crimes and lèse-majesté laws – which makes it unlawful to say anything against the monarchy – for her comments online about a dress designed by Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana as ‘ugly’. Thai entrant of the 67th…
BBC: The first all-British radar satellite is set to go into orbit on an Indian rocket. Called NovaSAR, it has the ability to take pictures of the surface of the Earth in every kind of weather, day or night.The spacecraft will assume a number of roles but its designers specifically want to see if it…
Hossen Sohel of DOT BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said holding a fair election under the Awami League government is not possible, reports UNB. “The election process has turned into a farce and no election atmosphere is prevailing in the country as all the attacks are made on BNP people. It’s very…
Russia Today: WikiLeaks says it has collected enough funds to file a lawsuit against the Guardian for publishing an uncorroborated story about alleged meetings between former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Julian Assange. The whistleblowing website has thanked all its supporters who contributed to its GoFundMe campaign, launched on November 27 following the publication…
Wali-ur Rahman, Former Ambassador: China has agreed to provide Bangladesh with aids in repatriating the Rohingya refugees, during the recent visit by our foreign minister to the country. Myanmar will face mere pressure due to their reassurance. There is already a memorandum of understanding effective between Bangladesh and China regarding the rehabilitation of the minority…