M Humayun Kabir: BNP termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comment ‘absurd and imprudent’ involving its chairperson Khaleda Zia in the August-15 carnage conspiracy. “Our self-declared Prime Minister used to see the ghost of Zia family and BNP everywhere. Otherwise, how could you involve Khaleda Zia and Ziaur Rahman in the 1975 incident? You’re making unguarded…
Hossen Sohel: Former Pakistan ba-tsman Nasir Jamshed has been banned for 10 years by an anti-corruption for his part in the spot-fixing scandal that overtook the Pakistan Super League in 2017. Jamshed, who played 48 ODIs and two Tests, was suspended from all forms of cricket in February 2017 for violating the PCB’s anti-corruption code…
Desk Report: Vehicles were seen moving slowly on Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Tangail highways on Friday following rush of home-bound people ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, creating suffering to people, reports the daily sun. According to highway police, the number of passenger vehicles and good-laden started to increase from early morning which created the traffic jam. A 15-km tailback…
Sayeed Muhammad: The funeral was attended by leaders from both sides of the aisle and representatives from SAARC nations yesterday. The mortal remains of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee were cremated at Smriti Sthal in New Delhi. Vajpayee, 93, passed away on Thursday, August 16, 2018, reports The Hindu. Indian and world leaders offered…
Al Arabiya: Saudi Arabia has contributed $100 million to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, more specifically supporting stabilization projects in areas liberated from the terrorist group in northeast Syria. This is the largest contribution to the coalition to date for these areas in specific, and it is an implementation of the pledge made by…
BSS: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has issued a set of directives asking the authorities concerned to take up different measures including keeping doors of the running buses always closed and stopping getting in and down of passengers without stoppage to ensure road safety in the capital. The directives came from a meeting of the…
Sayeed Muhammad: Wife of former commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Lt Col Hasinur Rahman has pleaded to the prime minister for directing law enforcers to find her husband, who has remained unaccounted for since on August 8. “Please bring my husband back. He [Hasniur] is innocent and not involved with anything. I beg…
Afsan Chowdhury, Researcher, Political Analyst: It will be disconcerting for the incumbent government to take a stand against school, college students involved with the movement for safe roads. The school, college students involved with the movement for road safety were below 18 years of age. So, it will be discomfiting for the government to take…
Reuters: Nine planes were forced to make emergency changes to their routes within Chilean, Argentine and Peruvian airspace on Thursday because of bomb threats issued to Chile’s civil aviation authority, its director general told journalists. At least two of the planes were operated by LATAM Airlines and three by Sky, a low-cost Chilean airline, the…
Maj Gen (retd) AK Mohammad Ali Shikder, Security Analyst Security of the state faced a threat following celebrity photographer Shahidul Alam’s provocative statement taking advantage of the road safety protests. When the state’s public security falls into a threat, the state security also finds itself in a threat. The activities that cause a state to…