Author: Asian Bangla

Asianbangla Desk : A total of 62 percent school-going students across the country are addicted to pornography, revealed a study on Sunday. Development organisation Centre for Men and Masculinities Studies (CMMS) conducted the study in association with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The study claimed 87 percent of school-going students across the country have their own mobile phones. The organisation unveiled the study report at a discussion meeting styled “Policy Dialogue on Gender-based violence in Bangladesh” at the Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu attended the programme as the chief guest while CMMS Chairman Syed Mohammad…

Asianbangla Desk : A two-year-old boy who went missing in woods in western Japan has been found unharmed after three days alone, apparently surviving on river water as volunteers hunted desperately for him. Afp, Tokyo Yoshiki Fujimoto disappeared on Sunday morning in the Yamaguchi region while out walking with his brother and grandfather, and the search for him made headlines nationwide. Police and locals combed the woods looking for him, but it was a 78-year-old volunteer from a neighbouring region who stumbled upon the toddler yesterday morning. The toddler was sitting on a rock, with his bare feet in a…

Asianbangla Desk : A bus apparently lost its brakes, then hit another vehicle at high speed and rolled over four times, killing at least 24 people and injuring 22 while smashing into several houses along a highway near Ecuador’s capital early Tuesday, officials said. AP The Colombian-registered bus was traveling to Quito when it hit a smaller vehicle in an area known as dead man’s curve at about 3 a.m., Ecuadorean authorities said. Residents described hearing a thundering noise like the world crashing down on them as the bus struck their homes in Pifo, a community 30 kilometers (18 miles) from…

Asianbangla Dhaka : Now that a protracted student movement for safety on Dhaka roads is long over, 99 people, mostly students, are spending time behind bar after law enforcers arrested them on charges of violence and spreading of rumours on social media platforms during the popular protest. Police filed 52 cases with different police stations in the capital Dhaka in little over two weeks’ time (July 29 – August 15) in connection with, what they said, violence and rumour mongering during students’ movement for road safety. Reckless race of two buses that cost lives of two college-goers in the city…

Asianbangla Desk : More than 100 publications across the US will publish editorials rejecting Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the press. The move is part of a coordinated effort by the Boston Globe’s editorial board to denounce the president’s claim that the media “is the enemy of the American people”. Each newspaper involved in the campaign will publish their own unique editorial refuting such criticisms, to arrive on newsstands Thursday, 16 August. In a statement calling on other newspapers to join the effort, the Boston Globe wrote, “We propose to publish an editorial on August 16 on the dangers of…

Asianbangla Desk : India will launch its first manned space mission by 2022 and roll out a health insurance scheme from September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday in his last Independence Day speech ahead of next year’s general election. Modi, speaking from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort in New Delhi, told a crowd of supporters that “sleeping elephant” India had awakened and was ready to take its place in the global economy. Modi, who seeks re-election in the world’s biggest democracy early next year, used the speech to broadcast his government’s achievements, amid concerns about lack…

Asianbangla Sports : The backlash continued against the India cricket team that surrendered in abject fashion to England in the second Test at Lord’s on Sunday to go 0-2 down in the five-match series. Yesterday, in his column for The Quint, former India cricketer and ex-chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil homed in on a pre-series quote from captain Virat Kohli to throw shade on the Indian cricket team in England. Before the Indian team left for England, Kohli was asked about his plans and targets about the tour. “I was asked this on the last tour of England as well.…

Asianbangla Desk : Bangladesh’s entrepreneur Muhammed Aziz Khan, chairman of Summit Group, was named as the 34th richest man in Singapore in the Forbes’ list for 2018. His net worth was $910 million as of July 25, said Forbes on its website. “I am very pleased and happy to be making to the list,” Khan said, according to his company. Forbes has taken into consideration only the power assets worth $910 million, according to Mohsena Hassan, head of public relations of Summit Corporation. All of Khan and his family’s assets, which are all in Bangladesh, worth about $1.5 billion, she…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Myanmar has requested Bangladesh not to use the words “Forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals” on the registration cards issued to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. Instead, the Myanmar authorities, during a meeting with a Bangladesh delegation last week, requested to use words “Displaced persons from Rakhine State” as their identities, said Bangladeshi officials present at the meetings. “Yes, there was a discussion on the matter during the meeting. But, Bangladesh authorities have not taken any formal decision regarding this yet,” Refugee Relief & Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mohammad Abul Kalam told the reporter yesterday. However, Myanmar claims Bangladesh has…

Asianbangla, New Delhi : Former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was on life support as his condition worsened yesterday. Vajpayee, 93, was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on June 11 with kidney and urinary tract infections and low urine output, doctors, attending him at the hospital, said in a statement. The AIIMS statement was issued hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Vajpayee yesterday evening to enquire about his condition. Modi spent there around 50 minutes. The statement said, “Vajpayee has been admitted to the AIIMS for the last nine weeks. His…