The man on the phone: What's it like making history's highest auction bid?
In November 2017 at Christie's New York, Alex Rotter uttered a phrase never before heard at an art auction: "Four hundred million."
Rajapaksa redux and a democracy in peril
SRI Lanka is again at the crossroads with presidential elections due before December 9. The political drive since the newly formed Rajapaksa-led Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, which swept
Zia, Ershad usurpers, not ex-presidents, says PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said that there was no scope to refer to former military rulers Ziaur Rahman and HM Ershad as ‘former president’ as the High Court declared their regimes illegal.
75pc workers sent to Brunei thru middlemen
In 2018, about 75 per cent of Bangladeshi workers were illegally sent to Brunei by the brokers in collaboration with immigration police at the airport through so-called ‘body contracts’, said officials.
Rivers continue to swell
Major rivers in north, north-eastern and south-eastern regions continued to swell rapidly due to heavy rains in the cross border upstream and inside Bangladesh.
Number of dengue patients hospitalised crosses 50,000
The number of hospitalised dengue patients this year rose to 49,999 as of 8:00am Friday since January 1 after dengue took an alarming turn recently prompting many caregivers to refer to the situation as no less than an epidemic.
India, Pakistan exchange fire in Kashmir
Pakistan said on Thursday three of its soldiers were killed in a cross-border exchange of fire in the contested Kashmir region, but India denied that five of its troops died too.
Israel bars visit by two US lawmakers
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday barred US Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from making a planned trip to Israel, shortly after US president Donald Trump called on his ally not to let them in.
N Korea fires two projectiles, S Korea ‘impudent’
North Korea launched at least two projectiles into the sea on Friday, South Korea’s military said, shortly after Pyongyang described South Korea’s president as ‘impudent’ and vowed that inter-Korean talks are over.
Govt backtracks on rawhide export
The government has apparently backtracked on its decision to allow rawhide export as tannery owners on Wednesday promised that they would start procuring raw hide of sacrificial animals at the government-mandated prices from August 17 (Saturday).
