Desk Report: About 20 street children who work as porters or ragpickers and live in different shelter houses in the capital were chattering at the Narayanganj Terminal of Kamalapur Railway Station. The place is known to locals and the children as open school for street children. The school has been in operation since June 2016…
Eshan Maitra The exponential industrial growth in China has put the country’s name in the top list of most powerful nation. Almost everything is made in China now a day. But these great outcomes are facing the bad side-effects now. Many of the cities in China are suffering from horribly polluted air. A Canadian company…
Maxim Edwards, British journalist covering Central and Eastern Europe and a former editor at openDemocracy and OCCRP/The Atlantic Once praised by Madeleine Albright as “a breath of fresh air,” Bosnia’s new president, Milorad Dodik, now threatens a fragile U.S.-brokered peace accord. Few national leaders would call their own country an “impossible state.” Fewer still would…
Sky News A “dead” comet that resembles a human skull is set to travel past the Earth less than a fortnight after Halloween. The space rock, officially named Asteroid 2015 TB145, was discovered on 10 October 2015 by a team at the University of Hawaii. NASA fittingly nicknamed the asteroid the “Great Pumpkin” before it…
Monica Hesse (The Washington Post)/Chicago Tribune The first summer of Meghan Markle’s royalty is coming to an end and, as a diligent student of her tabloid coverage, here is what I have learned: She is going to Balmoral for the queen’s summer holiday, and that will be a test. She had her first solo outing…
Abrar Hussain: Amid criticism from the government’s ‘war on drugs’ that recently killed 45 people in parts of Bangladesh, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has announced that all drug traffickers listed by law-enforcement agencies are being brought ‘under the law.’ “Everyone involved in drug trafficking will be brought under the law according to a list provided…
BSS Access to quality and reliable electricity is no more a dream as the country’s 92 percent people are now getting uninterrupted supply of power, which was only 47 percent before 2009.After assuming power in 2009, the government formulated a roadmap for the power and energy sector declaring it as a thrust sector with an…
AP, Jerusalem The Islamic militant group Hamas is praising a Palestinian as a “martyr” for carrying out a bus bombing that injured about 20 people in Jerusalem this week. In an announcement on one of its websites, Hamas names the bomber as Abdel Hameed Abu Srour. The statement says Srour was a member of Hamas,…
Hossen Sohel of DOT UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all stakeholders to ensure an environment free of violence, intimidation and coercion before, during and after the general election in Bangladesh, so as to enable a peaceful, credible and inclusive polls, reports The Daily Sun. “All Bangladeshi citizens, including minorities and women, must feel…