Kabir Humayun: BNP will hold doa mahfil across the country on August 15 marking the ‘74th birthday’ of its chairperson Khaleda Zia. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, party’s senior joint secretary general, made the announcement at a programme at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office yesterday, reports UNB. Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal arranged the programme marking Khaleda’s late son Arafat…
Desk Report: Bangladesh’s incumbent coach Steve Rhodes had earlier reiterated that Bangladesh winning the T20 series did come as a bit of a surprise, reports the daily star. The Tigers’ fortune had dramatically changed after inspirational captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza joined the squad for the ODI series following their dismantling by the West Indies in…
Hossen Sohel: The United States yesterday urged Britain to give up its support for a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and instead join forces with Washington to counter the global threat it says Tehran poses. Despite opposition from European allies, U.S. President Trump in May pulled the United States out of a deal between world…
Hindustan times: India and China have a border dispute but the fact that they have not even ‘fired a single bullet at each other’ in the last four decades shows their maturity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in an interview to Hindustan Times. Modi, in the email interview, spoke about Doklam, a disputed border…
CGTN: American researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing for glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. In a paper to be presented next week at the 2018 Machine Learning for Healthcare conference at Stanford University, researchers from the Massachusetts…
Hafed Al-Ghwell, Non-resident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Institute at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies/ Arab News The Rohingya refugee crisis stunned the world when the first reports emerged of widespread ethnic cleansing in Rakhine state in Myanmar. Each new report was more alarming than the last, with stories of…
Cyril Almeida /Dawn, Pakistan FORGET the silliness about profound change and marvellousness. This is the real world and the real world, our world, is about fighting tooth and nail and maybe emerging bloodied but not broken. There have been three possible versions of Imran. One version is already dead, two possibilities remain — and together…
UNICEF Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore “The horrific attack on a bus in Sa’ada, Yemen, reportedly killing and maiming scores of children, marks a low point in the country’s brutal war. The question now is whether it will also be a turning point – the moment that must finally push the warring parties,…
M. Sanjeeb Hossain, Commonwealth Scholar and Sessional Tutor at the Warwick Law School/BDnews24 I do not think the school going kids of Bangladesh took control of the streets to topple the government as has been portrayed by some people. It was not about that, rather it was about a very legitimate demand for safer roads,…
Abrar Hussain: Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at the age of 85, his family said. Sir Vidia, born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including ‘A Bend in the River’ and his masterpiece, ‘A House for Mr Biswas’. His wife, Lady Naipaul, called…