Muhammad Ali Bukhari from Toronto: The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) has adopted a motion on the torture against Daily Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman, internationally acclaimed photo-journalist Shahidul Alam and school children demonstrating for road safety in Bangladesh. The motion was adopted unanimously during the NEPMCC’s monthly general meeting on…
AP: Turkey’s president appeared to escalate a dispute with the United States that has helped foment a Turkish currency crisis, claiming Tuesday that his country will boycott U.S.-made electronic goods. Behind the scenes, however, diplomats resumed contact to ease tensions. Addressing a conference of his ruling party faithful in the capital, Recep Tayyip Erdogan added…
Abrar Hussain: Thirteen people have been killed after separate road accidents in Narsingdi, Sirajganj, Satkhira, Gazipur,Munshiganj, Naogaon, and Sherpur districts of the country yesterday, report BDnews. In Narsingdi, seven people, including two women and a child, were killed after a bus collided with a microbus on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Shibpur upazila around 8:15am. In Sirajganj,…
Desk report: Vaping can damage vital immune system cells and may be more harmful than previously thought, a study suggests. Researchers found that e-cigarette vapour disabled important immune cells in the lung and boosted inflammation, the BBC reported. A small experimental study, led by Professor David Thickett, at the University of Birmingham, showed that in…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: Bangabandhu is the architect of independent Bangladesh. He had the towering courage and personality. Bangabandhu was a real epitome of courage, both in the physical and moral sense. The historic 6-Point Program, an explicit embodiment of Bengali nationalism was unfurled at Lahore, the…
Kabir Humayun: Oppo-sition Chief Whip in parliament and Jatiya Party Presidium Member Md Tajul Islam Choudhury passed away on Monday night. He was 73. Tajul, who was elected lawmaker for seven times from Kurigram-2 constituency, breathed his last at the United Hospital in the city, reports BSS. The politician was suffering from various age-related complications,…
Wionews: Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from…
Hossen Sohel: The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to give appropriate compensation to the family of Rafida Khan Raifa, the two-year-old girl who died at Max Hospital in Chittagong due to doctors’ negligence during her treatment on June 2….
Russia Today: Facebook has bought the rights to show Spanish top-flight football in the Indian subcontinent in the latest move by a US technology company into sports rights. The company has signed an exclusive agreement to show La Liga games featuring Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and other stars for the next three years. The deal will…
BBC: Fuku-shima residents have reacted angrily to the statue of a boy in protective gear, saying it gives the impression of a city still contaminated after the 2011 nuclear disaster. Fukushima’s nuclear plant was hit by a tsunami in 2011, causing the most serious such accident since Chernobyl. The statue was erected in early August…