Dhaka, Dec 30 Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said she is confident about winning the 11th parliamentary election. In her reactions after casting vote at the Dhaka City College centre on Sunday morning, Hasina said: “The boat (her party symbol) will win.” “I believe the people of the country […]
Adventure Park Geelong’s initiative that helps single parents and guardians juggle children and ride time in the Park is back for the busy school holiday period. It was a huge hit with the community when it launched last year and by popular demand, Adventure Park has increased their capacity to assist more parents and kids […]
With efforts to reform a European Union tax law not bringing the desired results, France is going to introduce from January 1, 2019 a digital tax on technology giants such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, the media reported. The French government’s “GAFA” tax” is being introduced to combat attempts by the firms to avoid […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday vowed that his country will not develop at the expense of other nations, in a speech marking 40 years of reform. In his speech from the Great Hall of the People in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Xi said despite China’s growth, it would “never seek global hegemony” and also highlighted […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said he hoped that the Islamabad-backed US-Taliban negotiations which was held a day earlier in the UAE, could bring an end to “almost three decades of suffering of the brave Afghan people”. “Pakistan has helped in the dialogue between Taliban and the US in Abu Dhabi,” Khan tweeted. […]
The US Senate has passed a resolution blaming and condemning Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ratcheting up pressure on President Donald Trump who has aligned himself with the Saudi kingdom in the aftermath of the ghastly killing. The Senate on Thursday delivered back-to-back rebukes of the […]
Video-sharing giant YouTube has removed as many as 7.8 million videos between July and September, in its attempt to address violative content on the video platform. According to YouTube’s latest “YouTube Community Guidelines Enforcement” report, 81 per cent of these videos were first detected by machines while out of those detected by machines, 74.5 per […]
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will be on a four-day India visit from December 21 to attend the first people-to-people exchange agreed between Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at their icebreaking meet in Wuhan earlier this year. After witnessing chill in their ties over the military stand-off in Doklam last year, the two […]
The UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members, the European Court of Justice ruled on Monday. The court in a statement said: “When a member state has notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw from the EU, as the UK has done, that member state is free […]
The Election Commission has made elaborate arrangements to count the polled in the Mizoram Assembly polls on Tuesday, an official said on Monday. Polling for the 40-seat Assembly was held on November 28, with 81.64 per cent of the 774,758 electorate voting. There were 209 candidates. Chief Electoral Officer Ashish Kundra told the media that […]