Reuters: At least one explosion rocked a military event where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was giving a speech on Saturday and the government said it was a failed assassination attempt involving drones carrying explosives. Maduro said “everything points” to a right-wing plot that initial investigation suggested was linked to Colombia and the U.S. state of Florida,…
Arab News: Israel reopened its only crossing for people with the Gaza Strip on Monday, a week after shutting it over violence along the border with the Palestinian enclave. The reopening, following days of relative calm, comes as Egypt holds talks with Palestinian officials as part of efforts to reach a long-term truce with Israel….
Desk Report: The members of customs intelligence have seized a huge quantity of restricted and illegally imported medicine from a Hajj flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka, reports the financial express. The medicine, worth 16 million, was found in the Hajj flight that came in from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia around 5:00 pm,…
Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed, Former Governor, Bangladesh Bank : will benefit from this; especially since this is an election year. There has been no provision in the budget for increasing the tax net. Given our current regulatory bodies and institutions, as well as the state of the security exchange and banks, it doesn’t seem at all possible…
BSS Miscreants gunned down a man near Kamal Chairman Bridge at Sharifpur under Begumganj upazila of the district on Wednesday night. The victim was identified as Faruq, 27, a motorcycle mechanic and son of Nurul Amin of Bepari Bari village of the upazila.He was admitted into Noakhali General Hospital. A case was filed in this…
BBC: Sony has announced a miniature version of the first PlayStation console, which originally launched in 1994. The mini version will come with 20 retro titles, including Final Fantasy VII and Tekken 3. The PlayStation Classic is around half the size of the original and is due to launch on 3 December. One expert said nostalgia…
Russia Today: A video has emerged on Twitter showing a faceless yet worryingly realistic humanoid robot walking in what looks like a perfectly mundane courtyard. The trip down the uncanny valley caused some to proclaim an impending apocalypse. The clip shows the stoop-backed robot making its way past the cameraman, with ominous music playing in…
Sofian Khan Today, a Dhaka court has summoned columnist Farhad Mazhar and his wife Farida Akhter on charges brought by police. According to their counsel Syed Zainul Abedin Mezbah, the couple is ordered to appear before a metropolitan magistrate on January 30. They are charged by the Police with misleading the law enforcement personnels by…
Desk Report:James Bond was a big deal in my household growing up. There were only two things my stepdad loved more than Sean Connery‘s 007: Sergio Leone Westerns and the San Francisco 49ers. As a result I saw the early Bonds quite a lot as a kid, but kind of skipped past George Lazenby and…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : The wife of Rathis Chondro Bhowmik, the lawyer whose body was found buried in a construction site last year, was sentenced to death for the murder of her husband, reports bdnews24.com. Dipa Bhowmik was present in court yesterday when District and Sessions Judge ABM Nizamul Haque announced her verdict. On…