Hassan Ahmadian/Aljazeera In early September, the Trump administration finally announced what various officials had been suggesting over the past months: that US troops will stay “indefinitely” in Syria. US President Donald Trump signed off on this reversal in policy after previously declaring that he wanted to pull US soldiers out of the country. Just two…
Desk Report: Five local films having received censor certificates are ready to hit cinemas across the country during Eid-ul-Azha, reports Asian Age. The films are Captain Khan, Beporoya, Mone Rekho, Zannat and Amar Prem Amar Priya. Among the five films, three are ready for release, while Captain Khan and Beporoya are currently in post-production stages. ‘Directors,…
Middle East Monitor Qatar will not take a decision on whether to expand its 2022 World Cup to 48 teams from 32 until it has seen the details of a feasibility study from FIFA, an official from the country’s World Cup organising committee said on Monday, Reuters reports. FIFA President Gianni Infantino said last week…
Written by: Eshan Maitra Telephone was the first revolution for distant real-time conversation in the past. Even, landphones were more trusty & economic gadget for this purpose. But, exponentially Bangladesh Telecommunication Company (BTCL) losing the technological market-race to the attractive modern smart cell-phones. Many starting to question about BTCL’s necessity & existence. There were over…
Tridip Suhrud, Indian writer, political scientist, cultural historian and translator from Gujarat, India/Indian Express Gandhi reminded us and continues to do so that India is united in its poverty and deprivation, its structures of humiliation and violence. His legacy is this awareness. I wish to begin this reflection with two images. One of a pair…
Desk Report: The Prime Minister’s Office has directed government officials for compulsory use of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on the routes where the national flag carrier operates flights, for air trips at government expense, reports The Daily Star. PMO issued a notification yesterday in this regard. It says ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers, MPs, those holding…
Abrar Hussain In her new year message Theresa May has said that Briton’s will feel “renewed confidence and pride” in 2018., reports BBC. The prime minister said that while Brexit will be “crucial” in the coming year, it is “not the limit” of the government’s ambitions. It will focus on schools, the police and NHS…
Desk Report: Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) is going to make a movie on the ‘Operation Jackpot’ which was carried out by naval commandos during the country’s War of Independence in 1971, reports Daily Asian Age. This is the first time that a film has got such a massive amount of money and ‘Operation Jackpot’ has…
Suzanne Moore, Guardian columnist/The Guardain, UK It’s a story as archaic as the royal family itself. But please, spare us the lazy catfight tropes The United Kingdom is hopelessly divided, unsure as to its future and so acutely at risk of constitutional crisis that it could soon become ungovernable. So it falls to the popular…
Samiul Bashar Samin Russian culture minister Vladimir Medinsky has accused the U.S. government of using Netflix as a nefarious tool to control the minds of people around the world. “They understand how to enter everyone’s homes by getting into every television with the help of Netflix and through this TV into the heads of everyone…