Reuters: Supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny protested across Russia against planned increases to the nationwide pension age on Sunday (Sept 9), a challenge to the authorities who are holding a raft of regional elections on the same day. The changes, going through parliament, have shaved around 15 percentage points off President Vladimir Putin’s…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT In a latest incident, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has said he still stands by his statement that “judiciary has seen degradation”. “I stand by my earlier statement placed during the felicitation of Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain in February last year,” he said while talking to reporters yesterday. He, however, refused…
AFP: At least 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, sources said Tuesday, in the latest high-casualty attack on beleaguered Afghan forces. The new toll from Monday’s Taliban-claimed attack in central Wardak province is far higher than earlier figures of 12 dead, and comes after a day of confusion,…
Md. Taqi Yasir Justin Bieber is being sued over the vocals to “Sorry,” however it’s like he is about to fight claims of stealing the song’s vocal hook.Skrillex made the song and named it within the suit. They responded with a tweet showing however the hook was sampled. “SORRY,” and said “We did not steal…
Reuters: President Emmerson Mnangagwa urged Zimbabweans to unite on Friday after he was declared the first elected head of state since Robert Mugabe’s removal from power, but the opposition leader insisted he had won and pledged to challenge the result. Sounding a conciliatory note after six people were killed in a post-election crackdown by the…
Desk Report This has been decided to accomodate growing tourism at the UNESCO World Heritage Site To tackle the growing number of eco-tourists in the Sundarbans, four new tourist zones are being built in the world’s largest coastal mangrove forest. The number of local and foreign tourists has been on the rise ever since the…
Hossen Sohel: A Banglade-shi origin UK man who plotted to kill Prime Minister Theresa May in a suicide attack was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years. Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 21, from north London, was convicted last month of preparing acts of terrorism, reports BBC. Rahman had planned to detonate…
Science Alert What would convince you that aliens existed? The question came up recently at a conference on astrobiology, held at Stanford University in California. Several ideas were tossed around – unusual gases in a planet’s atmosphere, strange heat gradients on its surface. But none felt persuasive. Finally, one scientist offered the solution: a photograph….
Myisha Nawar Trust me, I know how it goes. You are pulling your hair trying to convince yourself that you are worth it and that you are good enough. Gosh, darn it, people like you! And just when you feel your groove returning to you, what happens? SOMEONE comes along to tell you just how…
BBC : Foreign navies have played a key role in curbing piracy off Somalia’s coast, writes the BBC’s Anne Soy. On a beach in Hordeia on the northern coast of Somalia, I asked a former pirate what attracted him to piracy in the first place. The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, told me he…