BSS: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) yesterday approved 12 development projects with an outlay of Taka 7,866 crore, including one for dredging and embankment protection of the Padma River. The approval came at the fourth meeting of the ECNEC in fiscal 2018-19 held at NEC conference room in Sher-e-Banglanagar with Prime…
Independent, UK: West Hollywood councillors have voted “unanimously” to remove Donald Trump’s star from the city’s Walk of Fame. The marker, which was unveiled in 2007, has been vandalised several times since the US president took office and was almost completely destroyed in July in a pickaxe attack. At a meeting on Monday evening, West…
The Guardian, UK: The far-right extremist Blair Cottrell has posted on Facebook and Twitterabout hypothetically raping staff members at Sky News following his weekend interview on the network, but the social media platforms have not disabled his accounts. A video excerpt of his interview on Sky News on Sunday night, conducted by the former Northern…
Kabir Humayun: The 38th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) written examinations begins today. The written test for compulsory subjects to take place from August 8 to August 13 and tests for the optional subjects will be held on the first week of September, reports UNB. Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC), in press release issued yesterday afternoon,…
BSS: Bangladesh Bank (BB) will release new currency notes of Taka 10, 20, 50 and 100 denominations in the market ahead of Eid-ul-Azha from August 13. The new notes will be distributed from all branches of Bangladesh Bank across the country every day until August 20, said a press release yesterday. The new note distribution…
UNB: A drug addict was beaten to death by a drug trader over trivial matter at Digha village in Ishwardi upazila on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Eir Ali, 50.
BBC: Twin wildfires in California, known as the Mendocino Complex Fire, have grown to become the largest active wildfire in state history, officials said on Monday. The fires have spread rapidly in recent days to burn 283,800 acres of land – an area almost the size of Los Angeles. Firefighters are tackling 16 major blazes…
M Humayun Kabir: Journalists yesterday gave a 72-hour ultimatum to the government for arresting those involved in attack on working journalists during the ongoing student movement demanding safe roads. The journalists issued the ultimatum from a human chain at Saarc Fountain in Karwan Bazar area yesterday, reports UNB. If their demand is not met within…
Reuters: Rick Gates, a former business associate to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort, will continue to testify against his former boss and is expected to face a tough cross examination on Tuesday.
BBC: A woman who sold her son to paedophiles on the dark net for sex has been jailed for 12 years and six months by a court in southern Germany.The Freiburg court also jailed her partner, the boy’s stepfather, for 12 years. The boy was nine when the trial began in June.Berrin Taha, 48, and…