BSS: The government has directed owners in city to beautify their buses with a paint job by September 30. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said it to reporters after a Road Transport Advisory Council meeting in secretariat on Monday afternoon (August 27). In the meeting, decision has been made to enforce traffic law…
Dr. Delwar Hossain, Professor of International Relations, Dhaka University: Myanmar literally buried the report prepared by Annan Commission formed to probe Rohingya massacre. When the commission was constituted, the crackdown on the Rohinga minorities was fanned. Most of the Rohingya refugees are now given shelter in Bangladesh. If the Annan Commission’s recommendation has to be…
Hossen Sohel: A gunman killed four people and wounded several others on Sunday when he opened fire at a video game tournament that was being streamed online from a restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida, police and local media said. Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said one white male suspect was dead at the scene, reports Reuters. The…
M Humayun Kabir: All Rohingya returnees should be kept in a United Nations-supervised buffer zone before rebuilding their homes destroyed by the Myanmar army, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recommended. “A little progress is seen in repatriation of Rohingya. World leaders have only given lip service in the last one year over resolving the crisis,”…
Arab News: Investors on Monday will render their verdict on Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk’s decision to abandon a proposed $72 billion buyout to take the luxury electric car maker private. Musk said in a blog post late on Friday that his decision to scuttle the proposed deal was motivated in part by existing…
Reuters: North Korea’s state-controlled newspaper on Sunday accused the United States of “double-dealing” and “hatching a criminal plot” against Pyongyang, after Washington abruptly canceled a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Negotiations have been all but deadlocked since U.S. President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June….
Raj Abrar: A Ugandan judge yesterday granted bail to 12 opposition politicians, including popular songwriter Robert Kyagulanyi, who have been charged with treason over their alleged role in the stoning of President Yoweri Museveni’s convoy this month. Kyagulanyi’s lawyer alleged that his client has been left unable to stand after being beaten while in detention,…
Reuters: The verdict in Myanmar’s prosecution of two Reuters reporters accused of breaching the Official Secrets Act was postponed on Monday until Sept. 3 because the judge overseeing the case is sick, a court official said. Scores of reporters and diplomats had gathered at the Yangon court to hear the verdict on journalists Wa Lone,…
M Humayun Kabir: Experts yesterday warned that millions of children at risk of disease as nearly half the world’s schools lack clean drinking water, toilets and handwashing facilities. A lack of safe water and sanitation facilities can cause dehydration, illness, and even death. But many children are forced to risk their health to take part…
BSS: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood yesterday said the proposed ‘Sarkari Chakori Ain, 2018’ would not be meant for protecting dishonest public servants, rather for defending honest ones. “I believe the government cannot enact any law to protect corrupt elements. I rather see the proposed act as a protection of honest public servants instead…