Al Jazeera : The United Nations human rights chief has expressed horror over the escalating violence in Sudan’s North Darfur...
Day: May 18, 2024
Al Jazeera : North Korea has test-fired short-range “ballistic missiles” towards the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military said a day after it conducted joint drills with the United States using stealth fighter jets to simulate air combat. In a brief statement on Friday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launches were made from North Korea’s eastern coast region of Wonsan and that the country had bolstered its surveillance posture and was maintaining readiness. The statement did...
Bagerhat Correspondent : A mango trader was killed when a speeding truck bound for Khulna lost its control and dashed a mango laden pickup that was out of order and was standing on Dhaka-Khulna Highway at Town-Noapara under Fakirhat Upazila in Bagerhat district on Wednesday (on May 15) early in the morning from its behind violently. The deceased mango trader was identified as Shohel Hawladar (40), son of one late Abdur Rahman Hawladar of village Kalikabari under Morrelganj Upazila in...
AFP : Four people died in Texas on Thursday as heavy storms with winds up to 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour lashed the southwestern US state, local authorities said. Streets in downtown Houston were covered in glass from blown-out windows, video and photos posted to social media showed, as the National Weather Service warned of “severe” thunderstorms and possible tornadoes. Downed trees and power lines littered residential areas, and around a million customers in the state had lost power...
BBC Online : French police have killed a man after a synagogue was set on fire in the north-western city of Rouen. The man was armed with a knife and a metallic tool and was shot after he threatened officers, the Rouen prosecutor said. Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol said the attack on the synagogue did not just affect the Jewish community, but the entire city was “battered and in shock”. French reports say the suspect was Algerian and was appealing...
Staff Reporter : The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main opposition party in Bangladesh, has refuted claims made during interviews with US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Donald Lu. The party alleges that journalists from Prothom Alo and Independent TV falsely attributed a statement to them concerning the US stance on Bangladesh’s upcoming January 7 national elections. In a press release signed by BNP’s Senior Joint-Secretary General, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the party stated, “The question posed...
City Desk : State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Friday said Bengali culture will be enriched through the exchange of cultures and traditions among different countries. “Our culture will be more elegant if we can practice it with Japanese art and education. Cultural relations will be strengthened if we establish cultural institutions, hold cultural programmes and ensure exhibitions,” he said while inaugurating Calligraphy Workshop at Hamidur Rahman Cultural Centre at Zinzira in Keraniganj, the outskirt...
Reuters : After sealing pledges of a “new era” of strategic partnership with China’s Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin...
City Desk : The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs is going to widen the service of its National Helpline “164300” to boost its effort to provide free legal aid to the people’s doorstep. The National Legal Aid Services Organisation (NLASO) is going to recruit six officials to give legal advice on a contractual basis to run the national helpline call centre, according to the ministry, reports UNB. “After the appointment, citizens would be able to get free legal...
Staff Reporter : The US State Department has clearly said that they are not going to withdraw the sanctions against Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) which is facing charges of serious abuse of human rights violation in Bangladesh. The State Department Spokesperson Vedant Patel in a press conference on Thursday said the claim that the sanctions on RAB would be withdrawn is ‘false’. “Those claims are false. The U.S. is not withdrawing sanctions against the RAB. Those claims are false,” he...
Dhaka’s choked streets are a daily ordeal for commuters. While many factors contribute to the gridlock, the rising tide of illegal rickshaws is a major source of frustration. These unregulated vehicles, both pedal and battery-powered, weave in and out of traffic, creating bottlenecks and disrupting the flow. The frustration is compounded by the sense that these illegal operations are tolerated, if not outright enabled. Despite the High Court’s ban on battery-powered rickshaws, they seem to be multiplying. This begs the...