The Guardian, UK: Argenti-na’s senate has rejected a bill to legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. Lawmakers debated for more than 15 hours and voted 38 against to 31 in favour, despite the fact opinion polls showed the bill had strong public support. Pressure from the Catholic church prevented its approval, according…
Professor Dr Mizanur Rahman, Vice Chancellor of Jagannath University : We can hold talks and the result will be the same like before if a party refuses to take part in the polls. All parties should participate in the electoral race. Chances of a good election increases manifold if all parties join the electoral race….
Abrar Hussain: The United States announced on Wednesday it would impose fresh sanctions on Russia by the end of August for the alleged nerve agent attack by Russia against a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain. A senior State Department official claimed it had notified the Kremlin of the sanctions earlier in the…
Arab News: Iran’s labor minister was fired on Wednesday as the fall-out grew over the country’s economic meltdown in the face of new US sanctions. Ali Rabiei, a close political ally of President Hassan Rouhani, lost a parliamentary motion calling for his removal from office by 129 votes to 111. The Iranian economy is beset…
MEMO: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has said that German sports brand Adidas is no longer a sponsor of the Israel Football Association (IFA), media reports revealed last week. Quds Net News said that BDS activists wrote on its website that Adidas terminated its services to the IFA after a campaign asking the…
Kabir Humayun: BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday said crackdown on student protesters engaged in a campaign for safer roads was a ‘ruthless move’ by the government’. “The drive is nothing but a ruthless move against innocent students. We demand an immediate end to the torture on students,” said the BNP leader,…
Desk Report: The government has announced the prices of different types of rawhides from animals sacrificed during Eid-ul-Azha, reports The Daily Star. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed announced the decision after a meeting with leather traders at the Secretariat today. As per as the decision, tanners would buy per square feet salted cowhide and buffalo rawhide…
BBC: When Chinese author Liu Yongbiao was convicted earlier this week of bludgeoning four people to death in a guesthouse in 1995, it might not have come as such a surprise to his readers. In a preface to his 2010 novel, itself titled The Guilty Secret, Liu said he was already at work on a…
AP: Nagasaki marked the anniversary of the world’s second atomic bombing Thursday with the United Nations’ chief and the city’s mayor urging global leaders to take concrete steps toward world nuclear disarmament. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the first United Nations chief to visit Nagasaki, said fears of nuclear war are still present 73 years after the…
Hossen Sohel: Frantic rescue operations have been continuing since Sunday’s earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok. The latest aftershock had a magnitude of 5.9 or 6.2, according to monitors. It brought down some buildings, reports BBC. Rescue workers are still digging through rubble and trying to get aid to survivors of the earlier, larger…