Sadiya S. Silvee writes for DOT : The period prisoners spend on death row in Bangladesh is an emerging issue. During this time, the prisoners under sentence of death are “confined in a cell apart from all other prisoners, and are placed by day and by night under the charge of a guard” [Section 30,…
Dr. M. A. Hasan speaks to DOT : Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Thursday said it would not allow any war criminals to contest the 11th general election with the ‘Sheaf of Paddy’, the party’s electoral symbol. 50 Jamaat leaders submitted their nomination forms to contest the polls with BNP symbol and 25 of them…
CNN : Music producer DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday with promoting investments in initial cryptocurrency coin offerings without revealing that they’d been paid. The SEC has said that cryptocurrency coins sold in initial coin offerings may be considered securities and subject to federal securities…
Dr. Nazmul ahsan Kalimullah speaks to DOT : Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said that the Election Commission (EC) will honour the final verdict of the court on the issue of participation of any convicted person in the polls.“This time it is a matter of not political polarization, but equation. In this regard, Dr….
Daily Our Time is presenting below two case studies of sexual abuse of two boys, both are 9 years of age. The perpetrator in the first incident was an influential person of a village who misused his position and power for committing this crime and in the second incident, the abuser was female and a…
Anadolu Agency : Some 198 people have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of an outbreak in late July, the country’s Health Ministry said on Friday. According to the Health Ministry, among the 426 cases of reported hemorrhagic fever, 379 of them were confirmed to be Ebola cases. It…
Professor Abu Ahmed speaks to DOT : The rate of defaulted loans has not come down with loan reschedule of 170 candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections slated for December 30. The candidates have rescheduled their loans for positive result in the polls. Reschedule does not mean repaying loans. I think the loans will not…
Anadolu Agency Kickboxing fans in Myanmar are pinning high hopes on Tun Tun Min, the toughest fighter in the country’s traditional boxing ring. This December he will fight for the title in the national championship of traditional Lethwei, considered by many as one of the world’s most brutal martial arts. Tun Tun Min, an ethnic…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose has been nominated for a face to feature on a new 50-pound note to go live from 2020, reports Daily Sun. The Bangladeshi-born internationally-acclaimed scientist was nominated along with numerous other renowned scientists at initial stage of the Bank of England’s search for a new face….
Al Jazeera Malaysia’s new government has a “window of opportunity” to address indigenous land rights and stop the intimidation, harassment and arrest of those attempting to defend their land, Amnesty International said at the launch of its latest report into indigenous rights. Across the country, indigenous people, who make up about 14 percent of the…