Desk Report: Dhaka stocks slid for the third consecutive session on Monday as investors continued selling financial scrips and focusing their attention on energy stocks. DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed 0.18 per cent, or 10.21 points, to close at 5,590.42 points on Monday, the first trading day in this week. The…
BSS: Administrative and police officials at a training session here unanimously observed that strict enforcement of traffic rules besides creating wide-ranging mass-awareness has become an urgent need to ensure road safety. They mentioned that the country experiences over 5,000 road accidents in every year claiming over 4,000 lives and injuring many others. The total loss…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the upcoming general election will be held neutrally, freely and fairly in time and no one can resist it. “There’s no doubt the election will be free and neutral… we’re not there to rig votes,” she said, adding, “No one has the capability to foil the…
The Guardian, UK: The Specials singer Neville Staple has spoken of the “heartbreaking loss” of his grandson, who has been stabbed to death aged 21. Fidel, son of Staple’s daughter Melanie, was rushed to hospital in a life-threatening condition after being stabbed in Coventry in the early hours of Saturday. He was found at the…
AFP: Ukraine said Saturday it had jailed a man who plotted an assassination attempt against a Russian journalist who sparked a worldwide outcry earlier this year by faking his own murder. Ukraine security chief Vassyl Grytsak said a Kiev court had on Thursday sentenced Borys German, a Ukrainian citizen, to four-and-a-half years in prison after…
AP: US Army Gen. Austin Miller has assumed command of the 41-nation NATO mission in Afghanistan following a handover ceremony. Miller took over Sunday from Gen. John Nicholson, who held the post for more than two years, at a ceremony attended by senior Afghan officials and foreign ambassadors. The handover comes at a time when…
M Humayun Kabir: The US military took decision to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan. The decision came over Islamabad’s perceived failure to take decisive action against militants, in a new blow to deteriorating ties, reports Reuters. The Trump administration says Islamabad is granting safe haven to insurgents who are waging a 17-year-old war…
AFP: Nimai Hajjong remembers almost nothing of the hills of eastern Bangladesh where he was born more than half a century ago, having fled as a small child to India where he has lived as a refugee ever since. The 58-year-old has been declared a foreigner — one of four million people effectively stripped of…
BBC: The leader of Kuwait will visit the White House this week to meet with President Trump and discuss trade and security. The White House said in a statement that Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the emir of Kuwait, will lead a delegation of officials to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Reuters, citing state news agency…
Reuters: Chinese police on Sunday said it has detained 46 people in Leiyang city after bottles, bricks and firecrackers were thrown at officers and government officials during a 600-strong protest against problems in the education system. In a statement on its official microblog, Leiyang police in China’s southern Hunan province said it detained the people…