NDTV A soldier was killed in firing by Pakistani army across Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir on Thursday, officials said. They said that Indian and Pakistani armies exchanged fire in Uri (Baramulla district) and Machil (Kupwara district) sectors also prompting the authorities to suspend trade between two parts of Kashmir divided by the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ranked 26th on the Forbes list of 100 most powerful women in the world this year climbing four notches up from the last year’s position, reports Daily Sun. US-based global business magazine Forbes published the list on Tuesday. She was 30th in last year, 36th in…
DOT Desk Bangladesh Navy clinched the hat-trick Victory Day Hockey title when they beat Bangladesh Army by 5-4 goals in a pulsating final at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium on Wednesday, reports the New Age. For Army, Mahbubur Rahman, Hasan Jubayer Niloy, Monoj Babu and Nayeem Uddin scored one goal apiece. Chayan gave Navy…
Andrew Leonard,20-year veteran of online journalism, formerly a lifer at Salon, now untethered/Medium The same utopian promises that bloomed during the Internet’s early days are back. Be afraid. I remember the day I fell in love with the Internet as well as I remember the birth of my children. The summer of 1993; I was…
Raj Abrar of DOT Bangladesh has been elected as a member of the Bureau of the Assembly of the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the 17th assembly of States parties to the Rome Statute, held on December 5 in the Hague, Bangladesh was elected unanimously for next two years (2019-20), according to a foreign ministry…
DOT Desk Export earnings of the country went up by 17.24 per cent year-on-year in July-November of the current fiscal year (2018-2019), riding on higher shipments of readymade garment products compared with that in the same period of last fiscal year (2017-2018). Country’s export earnings jumped to $17.07 billion in the five months in FY19…
DOT Desk Bogura’s Kahalu upazila chairman and Jamaat leader Mawlana Tayeb Ali and five leaders and activists were sent to jail on Wednesday in a case filed under the Special Powers Act. District and Sessions Judge Naresh Chandra Sarkar passed the order rejecting their bail prayers, reports The Observer. On October 3, cocktails were exploded…
DOT Desk Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that the party will start giving final nomination letters to their candidates today and the process will be completed by tomorrow [Friday], reports The Daily Star. Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said that they have already come in consensus with their alliance…
DOT Desk The general point to point inflation rate in November last further eased to 5.37 percentage point from the previous month due to the slight decrease in non-food inflation. “The general point to point inflation rate slightly eased to 5.37 percentage point in November,”said Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday while releasing the…
Michael Tanner/New York Post Why are people poor? Conservatives suggest much deprivation is the result of flawed behavior by the poor. They point to a strong correlation between poverty and a failure to follow the so-called “success sequence”: Finish school, get a job, get married, and only then have children. Few people who do those…