DOT Desk A total of 30 freedom fighters will leave Dhaka for India on December 17 on a medical trip, reports The New Age. The Bangladesh government will bear the plane fare and other expenses while the Indian government will bear all costs related to their medical treatment, the release added.
DOT Desk The broccoli cultivators in different areas of the district are hopeful about a plentiful yield of the vegetable in this season. This year winter vegetable growers under the district geared up the farming of different varieties of vegetables including broccoli and made vigorous efforts with the optimism of expected output as well as…
Arafat Hasan of DOT : The senior judge of a two-member High Court bench ruled in favor yesterday of BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s participation in the upcoming elections while the junior judge disagreed with him. Following the dissenting order on three writ petitions filed by Khaleda, the High Court judges will now send all the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Bangladesh batsman Liton Das was taken to a hospital after sustaining a blow on his right foot during the second ODI against Windies on Tuesday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, reports UNB. But, the blow was not a dangerous one as a scan suggested that there was no fracture in…
Zakaria Arifin writes for DOT : As Bangladeshi, what basic necessities and fundamental rights we expect from our society and in broad sense from our country? Well, the answer to this question will vary in large degree. But if we want an answer appreciable to all, and if we envision a developed country as per…
Arafat Hasan of DOT : With attaining over 50,000 votes from the Gajwel assembly constituency, Telangana caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is all set to form the government in the state for the second time. Meanwhile his son KTR Rama Rao snatched victory from the Congress led grand alliance in Sircilla. KCR led Telangana…
AP : Mike Pompeo is in no position to claim that sending two strategic bombers to Venezuela was a “squandering” of public funds, Moscow countered, saying half of the US military budget is enough “to support all of Africa.” The US Secretary of State produced a lengthy tirade on Twitter on Tuesday, claiming the arrival…
The Guardian, UK : Two Russian cosmonauts are preparing to venture outside the International Space Station to investigate a mysterious leak. It was spotted on 30 August in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft attached to the station. The crew quickly located and sealed the tiny hole that created a slight loss of pressure. Space officials said…
BBC : Foreign navies have played a key role in curbing piracy off Somalia’s coast, writes the BBC’s Anne Soy. On a beach in Hordeia on the northern coast of Somalia, I asked a former pirate what attracted him to piracy in the first place. The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, told me he…
Syed Badrul Ahsan writes for DOT : The place of Shwadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, Free Bengal Radio, is seminal in the history of Bangladesh. As the Bengali nation found itself faced with the assault of the Pakistan army at the end of March 1971, it was Shwadhin Bangla Betar which placed itself in the forefront,…