New Delhi, Sept 3 (AP/UNB)- India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reshuffled some of his key minister’s portfolios to refurbish his government’s image, which has been dented by falling economic indicators.
Day: September 4, 2017
Rohingya persecution: Indonesian Minister due Tuesday
Dhaka, Sept 4 – Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi will arrive here on Tuesday to discuss with Bangladesh leadership the current persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine. The Indonesian Foreign Minister will arrive Tuesday…
Remittance earning hits one-year high
Dhaka, Sept 4 – The inward remittance inflow has marked a rise after a declining trend for over one year as the country received $1.4185 billion from the expatriates in August last.
Wounded and ‘afraid,’ Rohingya seek hospital aid
Cox’s Bazar, Sept 4 (AP/UNB)- With thousands of Rohingya refugees streaming daily across the swampy border into Bangladesh, one hospital was struggling Monday to treat dozens of men who had arrived with broken bones, bullet wounds and horrific stories of…
Satellite images show massive fire destruction on Rakhine
New satellite imagery shows several hundred buildings burned in Burma’s Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said today. Imagery from the Rohingya Muslim village of Chein Khar Li in Rathedaung township shows 700 buildings burned, a near total destruction of the…
Bullets and bloodshed behind exodus of Rohingyas: HRW
The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar has criticised the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, for failing to protect the Rohingya Muslim minority. Yanghee Lee said the situation in Rakhine was “really grave” and it…
Prince William and Kate expecting third child
Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their third child, Kensington Palace said Monday. Kensington Palace made the pregnancy announcement as they said that the former Kate Middleton was not feeling well enough to attend an…
BRICS countries concerned over several terror groups
Five major emerging economies including China and India agreed Monday to strengthen cooperation against terrorism and a range of organizations in a declaration that includes some Pakistan-based ones, in a diplomatic victory for New Delhi. A declaration adopted at a…
Ershad meets Saudi king, crown prince
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad met Saudi Kind Salam Bin Abdul Aziz and Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman on Saturday. The JaPa chief met the King and the Prince at Mina Palace and discussed the existing friendly relations between Bangladesh…
Dhaka expresses concern over N korea nuke tests
Bangladesh has expressed grave concerns at the successive nuclear tests conducted by North Korea. With utter disregard to the concerns expressed by the international community, North Korea has carried out its 6th nuclear test on September, said the Foreign Ministry…
Bangladesh 253/6 at stumps on 1st day against Aussies
Chittagong – Bangladesh made a comeback in the first innings of the second Test against Australia in Chittagong after skipper Mushfiqur Rahim and Sabbir Rahman notched up a partnership of 105 runs. After being reduced ti 117/5, the home side…
Zayn Malik goes completely bald
Singer Zayn Malik recently decided to shave off all of his hair. On his mom Trisha Malik’s Instagram account, the matriarch shared a photo of herself kissing her son’s bald head. Malik’s girlfriend, Gigi Hadid, is also in the snap.…
Boss of ‘Six Million Dollar Man’ dies
Richard Anderson, who played the boss of both “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman” in an on-screen career stretching some 50 years, died on Thursday, a family spokesman said. He was 91. Anderson died from natural causes…
US$60m villa could be most expensive sold on Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah
With 11 bedrooms, a vast expanse of private beach, as well as its own cinema and nightclub, “Tip Villa” on Palm Jumeirah is at the tip of Dubai’s luxury housing market – quite literally. The 46,000-square-foot property is set to…
Saudi Arabian ‘honesty’ app takes internet by storm
Fizzing with boyish exuberance, Saudi programmer Zainalabdin Tawfiq could be mistaken for a college freshman, but the popularity of his “honesty” app has shone a spotlight on the conservative kingdom’s nascent tech scene. Tawfiq catapulted to fame when he took…
‘Hitman’ shrugs off box-office doldrums to stay on top
For the third consecutive weekend “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” was the top film in North American box offices, but the cinematic scene remained deep in the summer doldrums, website Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The US Labor Day weekend was shaping up…
S.Korea grants “conditional” approval to THAAD environmental assessment
South Korea’s Ministry of Environment decided to grant a “conditional” approval to a green audit on the site of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), which could launch construction works at the site and even attempt to deploy…
BRICS meets in shadow of North Korea bombshell
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday opens an annual summit of BRICS leaders that already has been upstaged by North Korea’s latest nuclear weapons provocation. The BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—had gathered in the southeastern Chinese city of…
Narasimhan will take over as Novartis CEO in February
Novartis Chief Executive Joseph Jimenez will retire in 2018, with chief drug developer Vasant Narasimhan taking over as CEO starting in February, the Swiss drugmaker said on Monday.
Trump decides to scrap ‘Dreamer’ programme
US President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a programme that protects young undocumented immigrants, according to reports. He will give Congress six months to draw up legislation to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), sources quoted by…
Two killed in Kushtia motorbike crash
Dhaka, Sept 3 -Two motorcyclists were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between two motorcycles at Par House on Kushtia-Pabna highway in Bheramara Upazila on Sunday afternoon.
Live electric wire kills 3 of BD family on boat ride
Dhaka, Sept 3 -Three members of a family died from electrocution and two others sustained injuries while travelling by boat in Chalan Beel in Chatmohar Upazila of Pabna on Sunday afternoon.
Maria Sharapova knocked out of US Open
US Open – Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Dates: 28 Aug-10 Sept BBC coverage: Live radio and text commentary on selected matches every day. Maria Sharapova’s first Grand Slam tournament in 19 months ended with defeat by Anastasija Sevastova in…
Japan’s Princess Mako engaged to commoner
Japan’s Princess Mako has formally announced her engagement to a commoner after receiving the emperor’s approval.
South Korea’s live-fire missile drill against North’s nuclear test
South Korea has conducted a missile drill simulating an attack on the North Korean nuclear test site, in response to Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test.
Over 2,000 rohingyas arrested and sent back
Dhaka, Sept 3 -Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard arrested over two thousand Rohingyas in a drive at several houses of St Martin in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday.