TaiwanReuters: People in South Korea and Taiwan unveiled monuments and staged protests on Tuesday to mark Japan’s wartime use of “comfort women”, a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels. In South Korea, a new monument was unveiled as part of its first “Memorial Day for Japanese Forces’ Comfort Women…
Hossen Sohel: A Dhaka Court yesterday rejected the bail petition of three private university studentsin connection with two separate cases lodged with Badda and Bhatara Police Stations. Metropolitan Magistrate Satyabrata Sikder passed the order after lawyers for the three students submitted the three separate petitions seeking their bails in the cases, reports The Daily Star….
Russia Today: A foul-mouthed parrot, who was stuck on the roof of a London home for three days, told firefighters to “f**k off” when they tried to come to her aid. Jessie the Macaw parrot escaped from her home in Cuckoo Hall Lane in the Edmonton area of London and got trapped on a neighbor’s…
Wionews: A two-week jungle trek followed by a sheer climb up avalanche-prone slopes to a jagged ridge of icy pinnacles awaits three Myanmar mountaineers planning to take on Hkakabo Razi, a peak so treacherous it has been conquered only once. Believed to be the highest in Southeast Asia, the mountain stands at an estimated 5,881…
AP: Romanian and German archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric fortress dating back as far as 3,400 years in western Romania. Archaeologist Florin Gogaltan told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the find represented “one of the biggest prehistoric fortresses in Europe in the Bronze Age.” Gogaltan, a researcher at the Archaeology Institute in Cluj northwestern…
Hossen Sohel: A vigilance team comprising of transport owners and workers yesterday began checking vehicles at Dhaka’s Manik Mia Avenue where Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) also conducted drives simultaneously. The representatives of the transport owners and workers started the drives against unfit vehicles, said Khandaker Enayet Ullah, general secretary of Dhaka Road Transport Owners’…
Arafat Hasan: India has suggested names of three of its top directors — Shyam Benegal, Goutam Ghosh and Kauskhik Ganguly — to Bangladesh for jointly making a feature film on the life and works of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to mark his birth centenary in 2020 as well as a documentary on the Liberation War…
Desk Report: Stocks ret-urned to the green on Tuesday after a single-day break as pre-Eid sale pressure eased some extent, reports Financial Express. Market insiders said last minutes strong buying spree on sector-wise large-cap stocks helped the market ended higher. Trading on the bourses will remained closed today (Wednesday) due to National Mourning Day.
NTV Online: Social media giant Facebook has bagged the media rights of Spain’s top-division football championship, La Liga, for the Indian subcontinent, both parties have confirmed the path-breaking deal. With this mega deal, La Liga will be the first European football league to be broadcast exclusively live on Facebook in the Indian subcontinent. La Liga…
BBC: The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged by 2050, say researchers. Is it too late? It sits on swampy land, the Java Sea lapping against it,…