Abrar Hussain: Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has begun another hunger strike in prison, in protest over the recent arrest of a prominent civil rights activist as well the harassment of his and her families by security forces. She announced her hunger strike yesterday in a note posted on her husband’s Facebook page….
Sayeed Muhammad: Migrants trapped on a ship in a Sicilian port for six days have been allowed to disembark, ending a stand-off between the Italian government and other European states. Italy had refused allowing most of the migrants off until a solution was reached regarding their relocation, reports BBC. Late on Saturday, Italian Interior Minister…
Reuters: Britain is to start work on its own satellite navigation system to rival the European Union’s Galileo project because the UK’s access to sensitive security information could be restricted after Brexit, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Galileo, a 10 billion euro ($11.44 billion) satellite program being developed by the EU as a rival to the…
Reuters: US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president as a self-styled maverick Republican in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, his office said. He was 81. McCain, a US senator from Arizona for over three decades, had been battling…
Arafat Hasan: The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) is very likely to announce a fresh hike in natural gas tariff in September. According to officials at the regulatory body, the decision was made in order to counter import bills of ‘expensive’ LNG. After holding public hearings over the tariff hike proposals of state-run gas transmission,…
Abrar Hussain: Details of the most harrowing period of Vincent van Gogh’s life, including his mental collapses when he tried to poison himself with his own paint, have been revealed in a new book. Author and journalist Martin Bailey, an expert of Van Gogh’s life, traced the admissions register and other records from Saint-Paul de…
Abrar Hussain: At least 13 people were killed and 22 others injured after a bus had a head-on collision with a human hauler, locally known leguna, on Natore-Pabna highway in Baraigram upazila of Natore yesterday afternoon. As of writing this report 7:30pm, the identities of the deceased, all boarded on the leguna, are still unknown,…
Hindustan Times: British couples looking to conceive through artificial insemination face uncertainty if Britain leaves the European Union without a deal because sperm would no longer be imported from EU countries under existing legislation. Government advice published yesterday said Britain imported around 3,000 sperm samples from a commercial sperm bank in Denmark last year, as…
Hossen Sohel: A year after the flood of refugees, the camps have become functional towns, with shops, roadside restaurants and pharmacies. There are playgrounds for children and makeshift schools run by development agencies. More medical clinics are being built and many shanties have solar panels. Most people have at least some protection against monsoon landslides….
Prof Abdul Bayes, Personally, I think there is no need to retain quota system. I am not in favour of the quota system. Merit should come first in case of education. Nothing else should be considered in this respect. However, quota can be reserved for the disabled and the ethnic minority communities. Debate can be…