AFP report, July 30, 2023DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse stone-throwing crowds blockading major roads in the capital Dhaka on Saturday in the latest protest demanding the prime minister’s resignation. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies have staged a series of protests since last year demanding Sheikh Hasina step down and allow a caretaker government to oversee elections due next January. Clashes erupted in several locations when…
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by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, July 28, 2023BNP is finally holding its grand rally at Naya Paltan of the capital on Friday. BNP feels that the two days of tensions regarding permission for the rally venue, arrest of many of its leaders, raids on houses and hotels, have made this rally in the final stages of the ‘one-point’ movement a matter of its ‘image’. According to the responsible sources of BNP, the announcement of…
report in Dawn, July 25th, 2023QUETTA: The provincial capital experienced a powerful blast that shook the entire city, at the CPEC link road on Monday evening. According to an eyewitness, the explosion occurred while a police contingent patrolled between CPEC link and Samungli road area. One person sustained minor injuries and currently admitted in Bolan Medical College. The blast shattered window panes of nearby buildings and caused a wall collapse. The police stated that it…
By Nawid Samadi in TOLOnews, July 13, 2023 at 4:01 PMResidents of the capital are concerned about the lack of drinking water in Kabul these days. They said that they do not have access to city water supply services and the price of the drinking water from private companies has also increased. “People’s problems are many. If you ring the bell, three days or four days later it will be your turn to get water.…
report inThe Daily Star’, JUly 11, 2023At least one person was injured as a crude bomb went off in the capital’s Moghbazar intersection last night. Inspector (Operations) Abdus Kuddus said that the incident took place on Dilu Road around 10:00pm. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel.Police immediately went to the spot and recovered another unexploded crude bomb from the area. The identity of the injured could not be known. The…
By Christina Goldbaum and Safiullah Padshah in The NY Times, June 18, 2023Kabul: Late one night two months ago, a team of Taliban security officers assembled on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital to prepare for a raid on an Islamic State hide-out. As the zero hour approached, the men fiddled with their automatic rifles while their leader, Habib Rahman Inqayad, scrambled to get the exact location of their target. He grabbed his colleagues’ phones and…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, June 14, 2023CPN-UML chair and former prime minister KP Sharma Oli allegedly assured Ncell and its parent company Axiata that no capital gains tax would be applicable when Axiata was preparing to buy Ncell in 2015. Axiata Investments (UK) Limited and Ncell made such claims while submitting their position at the dispute settlement tribunal formed by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an international…
report in Prothom Alo, Jun 7, 2023The police detained 10 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir on Tuesday night from Banani area in the capital, reports UNB. Tajul Islam, ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Banani thana committee and secretary Maulana Rafi were among the arrestees. Confirming the matter, Banani police station’s officer-in-charge Mostafizur Rahman said they were detained at around 9:30pm on Tuesday while they were holding a ‘secret meeting’ at a local restaurant…
By Amal Jayasingher in The Island, June 4, 20223 When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka’s holiest tree was being harmed by 5G mobile signals, Colombo’s cash-strapped government pulled out all the stops.President Ranil Wickremesinghe dispatched a high-powered team of experts to the 2,300-year-old Sri Maha Bodhi tree in the sacred city of Anuradhapura, an ancient capital of the South Asian nation. It included the head of the telecom regulator, his technical…