Reuters: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said there was no meeting planned with U.S. officials including his counterpart Mike Pompeo at the United Nations General Assembly, the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported on Saturday. Asked about the likelihood of a meeting with U.S. officials, including Pompeo, on the sidelines of the United Nations General…
Desk Report: Road Safety Foundation, a nongovernment organisation working for road safety, yesterday demanded the draft of Road Transport Act-2018 should be revised as “the proposed law does not protect the interest of transport workers or general people”. The current draft law protects only the interest of the owners, said MA Hamid Sharif, vice chairman…
Times of Oman: Oman’s budget airline, SalamAir, has announced new direct flights to Khartoum in Sudan, Kathmandu in Nepal, Najaf in Iraq and Dhaka in Bangladesh. This decision was part of the airline’s expansion move. While Khartoum is the airline’s first African destination and first direct flight from the Sultanate to Sudan’s capital, Kathmandu is…
Desk Report: Rabeya Begum, a resident of Gendaria, visited Dhaka South City Corporation many times but she never noticed the city museum (Dhaka Nagar Jadughar) located on the fifth floor of DSCC. Like many others, she went to the DSCC office on Monday last, but she was greatly surprised to know that a museum preserving…
Reuters: Talks between Yemen’s warring parties next month will focus on a transitional governance deal and disarmament, the U.N. special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, said in remarks published on Saturday. Griffiths is trying to negotiate an end to the three-year conflict that has killed more than 10,000 people and pushed Yemen to the verge…
AFP: Pyongyang will suspend Chinese tour group visits to North Korea ahead of a high profile anniversary next month, according to news reports Saturday. The North’s Korea International Youth Travel Agency told a Chinese tourist agency that hotels in Pyongyang would be closed for renovations for 20 days starting Saturday, according to South Korean media…
Sayeed Muhammad: Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan appears to be performing Hajj this, but the Our Time could not verify the fact by contacting him. However, his verified Facebook page says that the ace all-rounder is set to go for the pilgrimage, one of the major pillars in Islam. “In this blessed month of Dhu’l-Hijjah,…
Sayeed Muhammad: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said road accidents the country claims maximum lives compared to the deaths caused by cancer or kidney diseases. The minister was talking to reporters after inaugurating a new station of Fire Service and Civil Defence in Burichang upazila of Comilla yesterday, reports The Daily Star. “Approximately 6,000…
The Guardian: When the first of the Galápagos Islands arose from the ocean floor around 3m years ago, they were naked, angry, lava-spewing cones devoid of life. Now, millions of years later, they are alive with some of the world’s most iconic animals. Giant tortoises. Sea iguanas. Flightless cormorants. And those finches equipped with Swiss…
UNB: A five-member team of adolescent girls and boys will take part in the international robotics competition titled ‘First Global Challenge’ to be held in Mexico City, capital of Mexico from August 15 to 18. The team will leave here on Sunday to join the event where adolescents from 182 countries are going to participate….