Dhaka, July 5 – Seven people, including a minor boy, of a family sustained burn injuries in a gas line explosion at a house in Dhalkanagar area in the city’s Gendaria early Wednesday.
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Saudi Arabia, allies to meet in Cairo on Qatar crisis
Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are to discuss the Qatar crisis, a month after they severed ties with the Gulf state.
US calls UNSC meet against N Korea’s missile test
The US has confirmed that North Korea tested a long-range missile which some experts believe could reach Alaska. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called it a “new escalation of the threat” and warned that Washington “will never accept a nuclear-armed…
Why war? Building on the legacies of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi
Robert J. Burrowes In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein conducted a correspondence subsequently published under the title ‘Why War?’ See ‘Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature’. https://www.transcend.org/tms/2015/04/why-war-einstein-and-freuds-little-known-correspondence-on-violence-peace-and-human-nature/ In many ways, this dialogue…
Top 300 cooperatives generate $2.5 trillion annually
By IPS World Desk Rome, Jul 3 (IPS) – The top 300 cooperatives alone generate 2.5 trillion dollars in annual turnover, more than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of France, according to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs…
Is religion new colonial frontier in int’l dev?
By Azza Karam UN, Jul 4 (IPS) – A decade ago, it was difficult to get Western policy makers in governments to be interested in the role of religious organizations in human development. The secular mind-set was such that religion…
Funding climate resilience benefits all nations
By Kenton X. Chance Kingstown, St. Vincent, Jul 4 (IPS) – A leading climate change mitigation and adaptation activist and former climate negotiator in the Caribbean says that the United States could protect its economic and political interest by helping…
Intensive aquaculture for sustainable shrimp industry
by Leon Kaye Once a rare delicacy, aquaculture has allowed shrimp to become a popular and affordable form of animal protein. Emerging economies such as China, Indonesia and Bangladesh view shrimp production as one path towards boosting jobs and exports.…
‘Rohingya issue to be resolved bilaterally’
Dhaka, July 4 – Renewing her call to Myanmar to take back Rohingyas from Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said this problem will be solved through bilateral discussions.
Respect, protect and fulfil right to health: UN
Geneva(Kanaga Raja) — The United Nations Human Rights Council, on the final day of its thirty-fifth regular session (6-23 June) end of last week, adopted a resolution that amongst others called upon States to respect, protect and fulfil the right…
Fallacies of Brexit: Simplistic polemics
by John Weeks Babbling Brexit: The British media provides a consistently misleading version of the process of UK disengagement from EU membership. The term used for this process, “Brexit”, is itself a substantial source of misguidance and obfuscation.
Farhad Mazhar taken to DB office for questioning
Dhaka, Jul 4 – Poet and columnist Farhad Mazhar who had gone ‘missing and then rescued’ was taken to the office of Detective Branch (DB) of Police at city’s Minto Road on Tuesday morning.
Rescued Farhad Mazhar brought back to Dhaka
Dhaka, Jul 4 – Poet and columnist Farhad Mazhar who had gone ‘missing and then rescued’ was brought back to the capital on Tuesday morning.
Columnist Farhad Mazhar found on bus in Jessore
The RAB has found columnist pro-opposition political activist Farhad Mazhar in Jessore’s Noapara after he went missing from Dhaka.
Prospects for any Doha agri accords at MC11 bleak
Geneva (D. Ravi Kanth) — The African Group of countries, particularly the Cotton-four – Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad – are going to be left high and dry at the World Trade Organization’s eleventh ministerial meeting (MC11) at Buenos…
Progress on world hunger has reversed
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Jul 3 (IPS) – World hunger has increased, reversing years of progress, said a UN specialised agency. During its biennial conference held in Rome, Italy from 3-8 July, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) noted that…
SC finds 16th Amendment unconstitutional
Dhaka – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the High Court verdict that declared illegal the 16th amendment to the Constitution.
Uttara hotel fire leaves two dead in Capital
Dhaka, Jul 3 – Firefighters recovered two bodies, including that of a woman, from one of the three buildings in the city’s Uttara area that caught fire early in the morning.
Facebook drone could one day provide global internet access
Yuma, Jul 3 (AP/UNB) – A solar-powered drone backed by Facebook that could one day provide worldwide internet access has quietly completed a test flight in Arizona after an earlier attempt ended with a crash landing.
Ekram murder accused killed in Feni ‘gunfight’
Dhaka, Jul 3 – One of the key accused in the Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekram murder case was killed early Monday, in a ‘gunfight’ with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Birinchi area of Feni Municipality.
Fire at Uttara hotel, two adjoining buildings
Dhaka, Jul 3 – A fire broke out and envelope hotel two adjoining buildings in the city’s Uttara area early Monday.
Man’s fingertip bitten off at Sydney wedding reception
A man has been arrested after allegedly biting off a wedding guest’s fingertip at a reception in Sydney.
Avignon shooting: Eight injured near French mosque
Eight people have been injured in a shooting outside a mosque in southern France, officials have confirmed. Worshippers leaving the Arrahma mosque in Avignon were approached by two hooded suspects at about 22:30 local time (21:30 GMT) on Sunday.
Qatar is given a further 48 hours to agree to demands
Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have extended the deadline for Qatar to accept a list of demands or face further sanctions by 48 hours.
Flood serves havoc to Sylhet: 250 thousand marooned
Sylhet, July 2 – The onrush of water from the upstream and heavy rainfall triggered by monsoon over the last one week inundated vast areas in six upazilas of the district, leaving about 2.5 lakh people marooned.
Khaleda’s sons laundered money, not AL men: Quader
Dhaka, Jul 2 – Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said it has been proved in courts of different countries, including the USA and Singapore, that BNP Chairperson’s sons Tarique Rahman and late Arafat Rahman Koko have money…
Excessive praise unwelcome- King Salman: Columnist punished
Manama: Saudi King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has called for the suspension of a columnist after he published a piece that praised him with God-like attributes.
Diplomats ponder whether UK may U-turn on Brexit
A British newspaper says EU diplomats are frustrated at a lack of clear vision over the UK Brexit plan. One envoy thinks a weakened leadership and the scale of what leaving the bloc entails could force a change of mind.
Five lawyers ordered to explain obstruction HC work
Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday ordered five Supreme Court lawyers to submit before it on July 10 their statements explaining their roles in connection with obstructing court proceedings, shouting in the courtroom and assaulting…
Ex-Chief Whip Joynal Abedin Farook in jail – arson case
Dhaka – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday sent BNP leader Joynal Abdin Farook to the jail after he surrendered before it in four arson cases filed with Paltan Police Station of the city in 2015.