Kabir Humayun: Mild tremors shook Dhaka and other parts of the country yesterday morning. The quake shook the city around 10:50am and lasted for about 30 seconds, reports The Daily Star. According to Bangladesh Meteorological Department, the quake originated from Assam, India. “The origin point is 293km north of Dhaka. The quake has been measured…
AFP: Thousands of Ryanair passengers faced travel disruption Wednesday as German pilots and cabin crew walked off the job, in the latest flare-up of a bitter Europe-wide battle for better pay and conditions. The Irish budget carrier said it was cancelling 150 out of 400 scheduled flights to and from Germany because of the walkout,…
AFP: Yoga pants and leggings have become a staple in the wardrobes of many Americans but one US school district is under fire for allegedly punishing young girls who wear them to class.Public schools in the Wisconsin lakeside city of Kenosha were defending themselves Tuesday against accusations of discriminating against female students who have embraced…
Jeremy J. Baumberg, Nano-scientist at the University of Cambridge/Project Syndicate Globalization, the digitization of knowledge, and the growing number of scientists all seem, at first glance, like positive trends for the progress of science. But these trends are Janus-faced, for they also encourage a hyper-competitive, trend-driven, and herd-like approach to scientific research. Scientific knowledge and…
Kabir Humayun: The Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Harsh Shringla tipped to be the next ambassador to the US, replacing Navtej Sarna, who is scheduled to retire at the end of this year, reports Times of India. According to the report, India’s ambassador to Myanmar, Vikram Misri, is likely to take over from Gautam Bambawale…
AFP: The death toll from a suicide attack on Afghan protesters has soared to 68, officials said Wednesday, as violence flares across the country ahead of elections and a key Islamic holy day. The bombing on Tuesday in the eastern province of Nangarhar was the latest in a wave of deadly insurgent attacks which has…
WIO News: The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended to September 17 the house arrest of the five rights activists arrested last month for their alleged connections to Maoists. The five activists include the lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, the journalist Gautam Navlakha, the poet Varavara Rao, the former professor Vernon Gonsalaves, and the lawyer and human rights…
Banglanews24: A district court has awarded death sentence to three men for raping and killing a college student, Shamsunnahar Tonu, in Shariatpur. Judge Abdus Salam Khan of District Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal passed the order on Wednesday (Sept 12). The death row convicts are Rezaul Karim Sujon, 24, son of Qader Talukdar of…
Hossen Sohel: The European Parliament votes yesterday on a highly complex online copyright law that has split natural political bedfellows and pitted music and news companies against Google and Facebook, reports AFP. EU lawmakers are divided on the issue even within their usual ideological camps, and a jamboree of lobbying around the Strasbourg session has…
M. Mehdi İlhan, Professor at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University/Daily Sabah, Turkey Idlib, a town located 60 kilometers from Aleppo and about 25 kilometers from the Turkish border, is strategically important as a gateway for the port of Latakia on the Mediterranean. The M-5 Highway connects Turkey to Jordan through Syrian territory; therefore, this route is…