Raj Abrar: A UN Human Rights Council independent expert said in a statement yesterday that social media giant Facebook needs to narrow its “sweeping” definition of terrorism in order to stop governments arbitrarily blocking legitimate opposition groups and dissenting voices. “The use of overly broad and imprecise definitions as the basis for regulating access to…
Abrar Hussain: Phili-ppine President Rodrigo Duterte has apologized to former United States President Barack Obama for calling him a “son of a whore” in 2016, which sparked a new low between the two nations’ long standing alliance. Duterte had lobbed the insult in response to steady criticism from the United States over his violent drug…
AFP: Chinese e-commerce billionaire Liu Qiangdong — also known as Richard Liu — was briefly arrested in the midwestern US city of Minneapolis over allegations of criminal sexual conduct, authorities said. Records from Hennepin County Jail showed Liu, founder and CEO of Chinese online retail giant JD.com, was arrested over the misconduct allegations late Friday…
The Guardian, UK: Sou-th Korea’s capital and largest city, Seoul, is set to begin daily checks for hidden cameras in public toilets in response to growing public outrage over an epidemic of “spy-cam porn”. South Korea is in the middle of a battle against videos secretly filmed in places such as toilet stalls and changing…
Probhash Amin, Head of News, ATN News Today (3rd september) is the day of feeling down. The morning started with the sad news of war heroine Rama Chowdhury. After a little while, more death news surfaced as engineer Jahirul and two others died in a road accident in Savar. I did not know the gentleman…
BSS: The government yesterday started distributing rice at Taka 10 per kg to around 50 lakh families or 2.50 crore extreme poor people under the food friendly programme across the country. Under the programme, each of the families including widows, elderly women, women dominant and lower income distressed families, will get 30-kg rice per month…
BSS: Bangladesh’s first geostationary communication satellite Bangabandhu-I is set to start its maiden transmission on Tuesday through broadcasting of South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship. “We are set to broadcast the SAFF Championship using BS-I through Bangladesh Television (BTV),” said Dr Shahjahan Mahmood, Chairman of Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited (BCSCL), the organisation responsible to…
Sayeed Muhammad: The UN member states are going to start long-awaited talks today, on a 2020 treaty that would regulate the high seas, which cover half the planet yet lack adequate environmental protection. Four sessions of the dialogues, each lasting two weeks, are planned to take place spanning over two years, with the goal of…
Mirror: In a video made from a clip of Google Maps Street View of the leafy Martha Chapel Cemetery in Texas, “two ghostly figures” appear. What looks like a creepy little girl can be seen peering from behind a tree and a mysterious cloaked person can be seen in lurking in the distance amid gravestones….
Abrar Hussain: The High Court is scheduled to hear the bail petition of eminent photographer Dr Shahidul Alam today, in a case filed under Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. The HC bench of Justice Md Ruhul Quddus and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman passed the ‘Not Today’ order yesterday after the state had sought time for…