AFP: Russia warned Friday that if the US followed through with threats to impose further harsh economic sanctions it would be seen as a “declaration of economic war”. The warning by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev came after Washington unveiled a raft of new sanctions against Russia over its alleged use of the Novichok nerve…
Kabir Humayun: A man was arrested along with 624 gold bars, weighing some 73 kg, from Shikarpur border point in Sharsha upazila on Thursday night. A team of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) conducted a drive at Narikelbaria at night and arrested Mohiuddin, 35, son of Tozammel Hossain of Shikarpur village, along with the gold…
M Humayun Kabir: At least 50 tigers were beaten to death in the areas adjacent to the Sundarbans in the last 18 years. During the same period, a total of 332 people were killed by the big cats as they entered localities in search of food. The last incident of killing a tiger was reported…
William Hague/Gulf News: A small flame of statesmanship would be lit in a European scene steadily darkened by inflexibility and lack of leadership The last week has seen the most concerted British diplomatic push with its French neighbours in many years. Days after the new British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, raced straight to Paris from…
Desk Report: The government has appointed an internationally reputed lawyer to bring back the six fugitive convicted killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports the financial express. The convicts are absconding in different countries. “We have recently appointed a globally famous lawyer to pave the way for bringing back six convicted…
Ghacks: Google removed the direct Contacts link on Gmail when it launched the new Gmail interface some time ago. Users of the classic Gmail interface could still open contacts from the main menu; this option is being removed by Google according to a new post on the official GSuite Updates blog. The reason? Google states…
Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, Professor and Founder Chair, Dept. of Television, Film and Photography, University of Dhaka Facebook and Twitter have turned into rumor mill s in Bangladesh. Compared to Twitter, Facebook is used more ominously. The liberals who think the online based media as technologies of freedom may find this statement…
The Science Alert: Touching a star isn’t easy. The sun is an enormous, searing-hot orb of plasma that generates a chaos of magnetic fields and can unleash deadly blasts of particles at a moment’s notice. But that is precisely what NASA plans to do – 24 times or more – with its car-size Parker Solar…
Arab News: Populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr retained his lead in Iraq’s May parliamentary election, results of a nationwide recount of votes showed on Friday, positioning him to play a central role in forming the country’s next government. Iraq’s Independent High Election Commission (IHEC) released the results of the recount on its website early on…
CNN: High above one of the most hotly contested regions in the world, CNN was given a rare look Friday at the Chinese government’s rapidly expanding militarization of the South China Sea Aboard a US Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane, CNN got a view from 16,500 feet of low-lying coral reefs turned into garrisons with…