Abrar Hussain: Myan-mar has received worldwide condemnation after it handed down a 7-year jail sentence to two Reuters journalists while they were investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims. Reuters has condemned it as a travesty of justice and severe blow to press freedom in the south-east Asian country. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo,…
Hossen Sohel: Human hauliers, known as laguna, will not be allowed to ply on the streets of the capital, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said yesterday, Reports The Daily Star. Asaduzzaman Mia said this while addressing a press conference at the DMP media centre in Minto Road. The press conference was organised to…
Tina Jabeen, Investment advisor to Start-up Bangladesh of Bangladesh government’s ICT Division/ BRAC The speed of innovation is changing the definition of “possible” every day, and even though some people think that the start-up culture is overhyped, I believe there’s light at the end of the tunnel of Bangladesh’s start-up ecosystem. Starting from traffic congestion…
Ross Douthatis, New York Times Op-Ed columnist/BDnews24 This past week the Trump Justice Department threw its weight behind a high-profile lawsuit against Harvard University, in which a group of Asian-American plaintiffs claim — with a great deal of evidence — that the famous Ivy school discriminates against them as it once discriminated against Jews. This…
Bdnews24: The use of electronic voting machines should be left with the people and the Election Commission, they said. If possible, the EC can use the EVM in around 300 centres on a small scale. It may take 10 to 15 years to be capable of holding the election using EVMs in all 300 constituencies,…
Reuters: Greek passenger ships remained docked at ports across the country for a second day on Tuesday, as seamen extended a strike to demand wage increases and the reinstatement of labor rights after the expiry of the country’s third bailout. The strike, which started at 0600 (0300 GMT) on Monday and was organized by Greece’s…
BBC: Maggie Georgieva is turning a jar of preservative around in her hands. “This is it,” she says. “This is ‘The Hoff’ – the famous yeti crab with a hairy chest,” referring to the object suspended in alcohol. Most of us would be hard pressed to name a recently discovered creature from the deep, and…
Desk Report: The national road and highway developer has sought nearly two-and-a-half time higher funds and two more years to widen a 29-kilometre road in Jamalpur. Officials said the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) recently asked for a revision of the Jamalpur-Madarganj road-widening work with a 137 per cent extended cost.The original cost for the…
UNB: Bangladesh has briefed Lithuania on the crisis faced by Bangladesh with the forcibly displaced Rohingya nationals from Myanmar and called the Lithuanian side to extend necessary support with a view to resolving the crisis. The issue came up for discussion broadly at the Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) held between Bangladesh and Lithuania at Vilnius…
Hossen Sohel: Police have finalised the charges against two of the owners of transport company and four of its worker in a case over the deaths of two college students in the Airport Road crash that triggered a massive movement, reports bdnews24.com. The charge-sheet of the sensational case will be submitted to court within Thursday,…