AFP: China’s massive and expanding “Belt and Road” trade infrastructure project is running into speed bumps as some countries begin to grumble about being buried under Chinese debt. First announced in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the initiative also known as the “new Silk Road” envisions the construction of railways, roads and ports across the…
News Age: Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday asked the Awami League government to reinstate poll-time caretaker government system in the constitution for holding a fair, neutral and inclusive general election. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a news briefing at the party’s central office said the ruling Awami League general secretary on…
Sky News: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe wishes her temporary release from an Iranian jail had not happened, her husband has revealed. In an open letter to Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Richard Ratcliffe also says his wife – a British-Iranian dual citizen – has “numbness in her legs” after suffering two panic attacks following her return…
Banglanews24: A policeman was killed as a passenger bus crushed his motorbike in Mirpur area of Dhaka on Sunday afternoon. The deceased, identified as Uttam Kumar, was a sub-inspector of Rupnagar police station. Shah Ali police station sub-inspector (SI) Shiuli Akhter said the incident took place at 4:30pm in Mirpur’s Rainkhola area when SI Uttam…
Kabir Humayun: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia can be released from jail either by the court or through presidential clemency, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. Replying to a question over BNP’s demand for Khaleda’s release, the PM said, “The government has nothing to do with it…she (Khaleda) has either to go to court or seek…
Reuters: Prime Minister Theresa May said she would not compromise with Brussels over her plans for Brexit as a media report said rivals in her party were set to publish their own proposal calling for a cleaner break with the European Union. With under two months before Britain and the EU want to agree a…
BSS: National Board of Revenue has intensified its move to collect the outstanding Value Added Tax (VAT) under the Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU) aimed at achieving the revenue collection target for 2018-19 fiscal. “As part of the move, NBR has sent letters to the large taxpayers for paying their due within a short time. NBR…
Desk Report: A domestic aircraft of a private air service provider skidded off the runway of Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu, injuring five passengers on board, reports Indian news portal NDTV. “The Aircraft bearing the call sign 9NAHW was carrying 21 passengers from Nepalgunj to Kathmandu. It skidded off the runway at around 8:30…
BSS: Road Transport and Bridges Minister and General Secretary of Awami League (AL) Obaidul Quader yesterday said Bangladesh is a country of communal harmony as the people of all faiths are living peacefully. “We have excellent relations among the people of different religions….they are practicing their respective religions peacefully,” he told a meeting on the…
BBC: Theresa May has insisted she will not be forced into watering down her Brexit plan during negotiations with the EU. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister says she will “not be pushed” into compromises on her Chequers agreement that are not in the “national interest”. But Mrs May also warns she will…