The Hill: The Palestinian authorities have slammed a reported plan by the US President’s special adviser Jared Kushner to dismantle the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, saying it’s a plot to take a key issue off any future negotiations. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has described the newly-surfaced plan, allegedly outlined by Kushner in…
Kabir Humayun: Gen-eral students demanded resignation of Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, also the executive president of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation, over his remarks after the deaths of the two college students at Dhaka’s Airport Road on July 29. Several thousand students, including over a thousand of Dhaka University (DU), reiterated the remand at a…
Kabir Humayun: Detec-tives detained a student from Cumilla early yesterday in connection with a ‘leaked phone conversation’ with BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury. The arrestee was identified as Milhanur Rahman Naumi, son of Siddiqur Rahman, hailed from Deura village in Barura upazila, UNB reports. The detainee has completed his Bar-at-Law from a…
Reuters: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Sunday it had held war games in the Gulf over the past several days, saying they were aimed at “confronting possible threats” by enemies, the state news state news agency IRNA reported. U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday that the United States believed Iran had started carrying out naval…
M Humayun Kabir: The US Embassy in Dhaka yesterday condemned the attacks on the protesting students who took to the streets demanding safe roads and justice for the deaths of their two peers in a road accident at the capital’s Airport Road. The US Embassy made a statement in this regard published in its official…
Reuters: Indonesia’s resort islands of Bali and Lombok were rocked by a magnitude 7 earthquake on Sunday, prompting a tsunami warning and panic among holidaymakers and residents. The quake, which struck at a depth of 15km off the north coast of Lombok, comes a week after a magnitude 6.4 quake killed 14 people on the…
Banglanews24: A district court on Sunday (August 5) granted three-day remand for three members of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh each.The JMB members were produced before the court of Kurigram Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Mizanur Rahman, at noon.
Professor Anu Muhammad, Department of Economics, Jahangirnagar University : The leaders of the transport worker unions are ministers – something that is absolutely against the law. How can a minister be the leader of a worker organization? The transport workers are being instigated against the students peacefully protesting for safe roads. It is obvious that…
M Humayun Kabir: At least nine people, including five photojournalists, were injured allegedly in BCL attacks at different spots in Dhaka yesterday during student protest demanding safe roads. The injured journalists were identified as AM Ahad of AP, Zawad of Janakantha, Palash of Banik Barta, Rimon of US based Zuma Press, freelancer Rahat and Enamul…
UNB: Customs officials detained a man alongwith 136 gold bars at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Sunday morning. Detainee Mohammad Jahed, arrived at the airport by a US-Bangla Airlines flight from Muscat at about 6:30am. He is the son of late Jamal Ahmed of Madarsha village inHathazari upazila. Acting on information, a team…