AFP: A Belgian police officer received a knife wound to the head and his alleged attacker was shot and seriously wounded on Monday, Brussels police said. The city prosecutor’s office said the attacker was a Belgian national “of Egyptian origin” who was born in 1975 an ...বিস্তারিত
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Executive Editor, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : Social media is an epitome of the postmodern world. For their users, social media platforms provide an environment to share and consume images of the “ideal” life. Such images can ...বিস্তারিত
Prof Dr Mahbub Ullah, Economist : The defaulters should not be given loans anew. The banks are compelled to hike the interest rates for non-performing loans. Therefore, it becomes quite difficult to lower interest rates. The borrowers have to take loans at high interest rat ...বিস্তারিত
Arab News: Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a peace deal on Sunday at a ceremony in Jeddah overseen by King Salman. The agreement officially ends more than 20 years of war between the two countries. Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed ...বিস্তারিত
Al Jazeera: A photograph showing Indian soldiers dragging the bloodied, half-naked body of a rebel has triggered outrage in and outside Indian-administered Kashmir, with rights activists calling it a "barbaric" act which violates international humanitarian law. The incident ...বিস্তারিত
Arab News: The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has resumed its offensive to liberate the vital Red Sea port of Hodeidah after proposed peace talks collapsed because Iranian-backed Houthi militias did not appear. At least 32 Houthis have been killed in renewed clashes, including ...বিস্তারিত
Arafat Hasan: Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Russia's Sochi today in order to discuss Syrian issues, according to a statement by the Kremlin yesterday. The meeting will take place at a time when the ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Russian social media site VKontakte (VK) has followed Facebook by banning Myanmar’s army chief and a nationalist monk known for stirring up Islamophobia in a country condemned globally for the treatment of its Rohingya Muslims. Facebook blacklisted Senior General Min ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: Oil prices rose on Monday as investors focused on the impact of U.S. sanctions on Iran despite assurances by Washington that Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United States could together raise output fast enough to offset falling supplies. U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Per ...বিস্তারিত
Tech Explorist: In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) proposed a definition of a planet that left out Pluto, causing it to lose status and relegate it as a dwarf planet. Since Neptune’s gravity impacts its neighboring planet Pluto, and Pluto imparts its circl ...বিস্তারিত