Reuters: Speculators will probably attack Italian financial markets this month but the country has the resources to defend itself, a senior and highly influential government official said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. Giancarlo Giorgetti, undersecretary in the prime minister’s office and a leading light in the far-right League party, said thin summer trading volumes…
Maxim Edwards, British journalist covering Central and Eastern Europe and a former editor at openDemocracy and OCCRP/The Atlantic Once praised by Madeleine Albright as “a breath of fresh air,” Bosnia’s new president, Milorad Dodik, now threatens a fragile U.S.-brokered peace accord. Few national leaders would call their own country an “impossible state.” Fewer still would…
NDTV: The Merriam-Webster’s Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is playing catch up by adding some of the new-age internet-influenced words to please the millennials. A total of 300 new words have been added to the dictionary including words which the seniors won’t consider as words but thanks to the social media, they are very much a part…
UNB After the two children, now the father who was injured in the Uttara gas explosion on Friday died at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday evening. Shahnewaz, 50, an employee of the US Embassy in Dhaka, succumbed to his injuries around 5:55pm, hospital sources said. Earlier, Shahnewaz’s two…
Channelnewsasia: United States secretary of state Mike Pompeo called on Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday (Aug 3) for talks as he concluded his two-day inaugural visit to Malaysia. During the 30-minute meeting at Perdana Putra, Pompeo – who is the most senior US official to visit Mahathir since his election victory – also…
Channelnewsasia: Japan’s Kansai airport will reopen partially on Friday, the government said Thursday (Sep 6), after a massive typhoon flooded parts of the transport hub and swept a tanker onto the only bridge connecting it to the mainland. The collision left the airport, which is on an artificial island, temporarily cut off, stranding thousands of…
Marilyn Thipthorpe We are always looking for ways to improve our life. Small or big all tips count, so get ready to go through some basics you can follow to stop feeling lost all the time. • Organize your thoughts and put them down on paper if necessary. Writings lists is a great way to…
Daily News: The national carrier, SriLankan Airlines, has paid over USD 12 million (over. Rs. one billion) as the delay cost for the aircraft leased out from various lessors when those were redelivered, Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Malpractices at the SriLankan Airlines (SLA), SriLankan Catering and the Mihin Lanka (Pvt.) Limited came…
UNB: The governing body of the 6th Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) on Thursday rescheduled the match timings of the franchise-based league matches with effect from today. As per fresh schedule, the first match will kick-off at 13:30 hours in place of 12:30 hours while the 2nd match will begin at 18:30 hours instead of 17:20…
DOT Desk: The bitter gourd farmers are happy over fair market price as well as good output in Bogura district this season, reports The Financial Express. Each maund of bitter gourd is being sold at Tk 1400 to 1500 in the wholesale markets. In retail market it sells at Tk 35 to 40 for each…