Rohingya camp attacked, road blocked as JL leader shot dead
Local people took to the streets and attacked a Rohingya camp on Friday after a Juba League leader was shot dead allegedly by Rohingya thugs at Jadimura area under Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night.
Incomplete Savar tannery park pollute environment
The authorities failed to complete the Tannery Industrial Park at Savar even over two years after the tanneries were shifted there from Hazaribagh in the capital, adversely affecting leather exports and causing fresh pollutions around the new industrial site.
Overstock CEO resigns after his 'deep state' comments sparked stock selloff
The outspoken CEO of online home goods retailer Overstock.com resigned Thursday, days after he issued a press release entitled "Comments on Deep State" that claimed he helped the FBI carry out "political espionage."
Macron delivers tough Brexit message to Johnson
When Emmanuel Macron and Boris Johnson spoke to reporters ahead of their meeting in Paris on Thursday, they stood side by side but sounded as if they were living in parallel universes.
India faces defiance in ‘Kashmir’s Gaza’
Young men sit beside a pile of rocks and a bonfire, protecting the only entrance to a besieged neighbourhood they call ‘Kashmir’s Gaza’ as a mosque loudspeaker broadcasts slogans of liberation.
ALLEGATION OF MISCONDUCT Three HC judges kept out of court
Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury, Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice AKM Zahirul Hoque of Rokanuddin Mahmud submitted at the Appellate Division’s hearing that the HC bench had
Tanners to pay wholesalers in three phases
Tannery owners on Thursday promised to pay their dues to the wholesale rawhide merchants across the country in three phases but the dates for the payment were yet to be determined.
Two more die of dengue
Two more people died of dengue in the capital and Barishal on Thursday. With these two deaths, at least 122 people died of the aedes mosquito-caused infection, according to unofficial reports, but the government figure puts the death toll at 47.
No Rohingya shows up for return to Myanmar
None of the 295 Rohingya families the authorities interviewed so far for repatriation showed up on Thursday for going back to Rakhine in Myanmar they left nearly two years ago amid state-sponsored atrocities.
DEEP SEA DISPUTES WITH INDIA, MYANMAR FM’s stance likely to hamper Bangladesh interests
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen’s position for withdrawing objections lodged with the United Nations on the disputes with India and Myanmar involving Bangladesh’s claim in deep sea is likely to compromise the country’s interests, according to diplomats in New York.
