Author: Asian Bangla

Lack of designated buses has not only exposed students to unsafe journey, accidents, harassment and misbehaviour from transport workers in capital but also increased education costs by way of travelling expenses. In absence of school bus services, students and their guardian rely on public transport, use car, rickshaw and auto-rickshaw, which empty guardians’ pocket, head teachers and principal of colleges of capital said. They, while talking in a views exchange programme with education minister Nurul Islam Nahid and others top official of the ministry in the capital on Sunday, demanded steps for arranging school bus service. They proposed dedicating…

Asianbangla Desk : Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak, right, arrives at High Court of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, August 8, 2018. Najib will face a new charge of money laundering over a multibillion-dollar graft scandal at a state investment fund, the anti-corruption agency said. Najib in July pleaded not guilty to abuse of power and three counts of criminal breach of trust, just two months after the scandal led to his stunning election defeat. Photo: Yam G-Jun/Associated Press AP, Kuala Lumpur Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak pleaded not guilty Wednesday to three new money-laundering charges related to…

Asianbangla Desk : An Army Major and three soldiers were killed in a gunfight with a large group of terrorists who were trying to infiltrate from Gurez in north Kashmir yesterday. The infiltration bid was foiled and two terrorists were also shot dead, the army said in a statement. According to sources, it was a group of six to eight terrorists that crossed the Line of Control or LoC at Gurez in north Kashmir’s Bandipore district, 125 km from Srinagar. They were intercepted by soldiers, leading to a fierce gunfight. The encounter was still going on and the army had called…

Asianbangla Desk : The death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok topped 100 yesterday as rescuers found victims under wrecked buildings, while thousands left homeless in the worst-affected areas waited for aid to arrive. A woman was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed grocery store in the north, near the epicentre of Sunday’s 6.9 magnitude quake, the second tremor to rock the tropical island in a week. That was a rare piece of good news as hopes of finding more survivors faded and a humanitarian crisis loomed for thousands left homeless by the…

Asianbangla Desk : The U.S. is bracing for cyberattacks Iran could launch in retaliation for the re-imposition of sanctions this week by President Donald Trump, cybersecurity and intelligence experts say. AP Concern over that cyber threat has been rising since May, when Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal, under which the U.S. and other world powers eased economic sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program. The experts say the threat would intensify following Washington’s move Tuesday to re-impose economic restrictions on Tehran. “While we have no specific threats, we have seen an increase in chatter related…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Visiting Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland on Wednesday said Rohingya issue is an important issue for the Commonwealth. Scotland came up with the remark while speaking at an event, titled ‘The Commonwealth Advantage: Progress and Potential’, at Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) here in the morning. Responding to a question, she said Rohingya issue is an important issue for the Commonwealth, and appreciated Bangladesh for sheltering and providing humanitarian support to a large number of Rohingyas. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali spoke at the event as the chief guest. The Secretary General arrived here…

Asianbangla Desk : The 2005 Ashes series is popularly remembered as Flintoff’s Ashes because of the rousing performances of the former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff. Although the recently concluded tour of West Indies by Bangladesh does not elicit the same fanfare from neutrals as the Ashes series does, nor does it have a catchy name, it will be fitting to unofficially name the month-long tour as Tamim Iqbal’s series. Although the left-handed opener did not fire in the Test series — and it was hardly surprising that the team fell to two heavy defeats at the start of the tour –…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Japan will further promote the Japan-Bangladesh Comprehensive Partnership and continue to fully support Bangladesh’s development on all fronts so that the country can attain the status of a middle-income country by 2021. For this, Japan has sought a safe and conducive investment environment and asked the Bangladesh government to continue to secure the safety of Japanese people. While raising the issue during separate meetings with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono also asked Dhaka to share information on the basis of the charge-sheet submitted to court regarding the July…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Radical Islamist groups are trying to forge a single platform with the aim to create anarchy ahead of the national elections, intelligence agencies alerted the home ministry recently. So-called Bangladeshi jihadists in and around Syria are tipped to be piecing fragmented extremist groups together. Law enforcement agencies, which claimed to have dismantled the terror network through at least 60 anti-militancy operations since the 2016 Holey Artisan terror attack in the capital, did not leave anything to chances. On receipt of a confidential report from the home ministry, the police headquarters has already stepped up monitoring and taken preventive…

Asianbangla Dhaka : Leaving out the alleged ruling party men involved in attacks on road safety demonstrators and journalists, police have made students accused in cases filed over the last few days’ violence in the capital. The complainants in all the 29 cases filed with 16 police stations mentioned that the attackers were unknown students, many of whom were in school and college uniforms. The case documents also state that some of the attackers were unidentified youths believed to be the infiltrators into the student movement sparked by the killing of two of their peers in a road crash on…