Desk Report: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said his party will select candidates ahead of the upcoming general election based on their popularity, reports the daily star. “The leaders whom people love will not be deprived. We will pick candidates by examining their popularity,” Quader said while addressing a rally at Natore Railway…
Yashee/Daily O, India Chopra’s choices show she is not a mannequin for gorgeous clothes, but a woman with a mind of her own. For most people, this writer included, black dresses are that rare thing — both prized asset and safe bet, your first choice when you are dressing to kill, and your last option…
Arab News: The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has urged overseas Pakistanis to wage a “dam jihad” by generously sending funds to the “PM-CJ fund for Diamer Bhasha and Muhammad Dam.” In his recorded address to the overseas Pakistanis, televised on state-run and private television channels here on Friday evening, Prime Minister Imran Khan…
Reuters: Yemen’s Houthi movement failed to attend peace talks, but the U.N. Special Envoy said on Saturday that it did not represent a “fundamental blockage in the process” and that he would meet soon with their representatives in Sanaa and in Muscat, Oman. “They would have like to get here, we didn’t make conditions sufficiently…
Hossen Sohel: Palghar police arrested a man whom they believe has trafficked over 500 girls from Bangladesh and pushed them into flesh trade in Mumbai, reports Asian Age. A case of human trafficking has been registered by Palghar police against Mohammad Saidul Shaikh (38) from Manpada in Dombivali area of Thane district. According to police,…
Anadolu Agency: Turkey will not watch the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Syria to further the regime’s interests, Turkey’s president said Friday. In a Twitter message in Turkish, English, Russian and Arabic, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would neither watch from the sidelines nor participate in such a game “if the…
Reuters: Kim Jong Un has confirmed his readiness to visit Russia, the RIA news agency quoted speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament Valentina Matvienko as saying after she met the North Korean leader in Pyongyang on Saturday. Kim “wants peace”, Matvienko said after the meeting, which lasted for more than an hour….
Reuters: Egypt sentenced to death 75 people, including prominent Islamist leaders, on Saturday over a 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces. Others being tried in the case, including Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohamed Badie, were handed life sentences, judicial sources said. Those being sentenced are accused…
Abu Hayat Mahmud: Speakers at a program have termed both climate change and development as great challenges for developing countries like Bangladesh. They came up with the findings at a discussion organized by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) regarding its 25th anniversary ceremony at Lake Shore Hotel in the capital yesterday. “We need to…
CBS: British Airways has revealed that hackers managed to breach its website and app, stealing data from many thousands of customers in the process. But how was this possible?BA has not revealed any technical details about the breach, but cyber-security experts have some suggestions of possible methods used. Names, email addresses and credit card details…