Reuters: Syrian government forces fired chlorine, a banned chemical weapon, on a rebel-held Damascus suburb and on Idlib province this year, in attacks that constitute war crimes, United Nations human rights investigators said on Wednesday. The three incidents bring to 39 the number of chemical attacks which the Commission of Inquiry on Syria has…
Desk Report: Social Wel-fare Minister Rashed Khan Menon has launched the country’s first electronic registration (e- registration) of diabetes patient, reports the financial express. The listed information in that electronic system will help deliver quality care for patient living with diabetes through analysing epidemiology, says a media release. The electronic registry will be implemented through…
Kabir Humayun: Quota reformists yesterday brought out a rally on Dhaka University campus demanding publication of the gazette on quota reform as soon as possible. The reformists brought out the rally from the DU Central Library around 10:30am and went through different areas of the campus before ending the rally at Raju sculpture, reports The…
Coconuts. Co: A Thai film dedicated to the Rohingya people won a top prize at the Venice Film Festival last weekend. “Manta Ray” (“Kraben Rahu” in Thai) won the Orizzonti Award for Best Film on Saturday night at the 75th Venice Film Festival, making it the first Thai movie to win the prestigious award. The…
Desk Report: A Sylhet court on yesterday sent industrialist Ragib Ali to jail after denying bail extension plea in a case filed for forging legal papers and grabbing the endowed land of Tarapur Tea Estate in the city, reports Daily Sun. Sylhet Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Mostain Billah passed the order when his lawyer…
Kabir Humayun: Three Patuakhali war crimes, who were awarded death penalty by the ICT, have filed appeals with the Supreme Court challenging the punishment. Abdus Sattar Palwan, lawyer of the death row convicts, lold media yesterday, reports Banglanews24.com. On August 13, International Crimes Tribunal sentenced five war crimes accused from Patuakhali to death. They are—Iman…
Arafat Hasan: At least 52 people died and several others injured after a Telangana bus fell from a narrow road into a gorge in Telangana’s Jagyat district yesterday morning. However, rescuers have warned that the actual toll is not yet clear. The bus belonging to Jagtyal depot of the state-owned road transport corporation was on…
M Humayun Kabir: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said that the election-time government will be formed in mid-October. Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, made the disclosure at a press conference at the Secretariat, reports The Daily Star. The size of the government will be similar to that of the last…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age : Mohammad Ali Jinnah died a lonely man, sometime between his departure from Ziarat and arrival in Karachi on 11 September 1948. There is yet the old argument that had he lived, Pakistan would be a truly democratic, perhaps even secular country. Unfortunately, it is an argument which…
Hossen Sohel: At least 35 people were killed on Monday and hundreds injured when a gas tanker exploded in northern Nigerian state of Nasarawa and started a blaze, the state emergency agency said. The State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) official said the accident happened at a petrol station along the Lafia-Makurdi road linking the capital…