Nuh-ul-Alam Lenin speaks to DOT : The countrymen will express their support for the ruling Awami League for the sake of continued development in the country. The Mohajote (grand alliance) led by Awami League will win the December 30 general election, retaining power. This will happen since the country witnessed a massive development in the…
Khushi Kabir speaks to DOT : The human rights issue has received extensive media coverage but with little effect. It is a violation of human rights to launch attack on people during electoral campaign. Nobody in country perform his or her duty properly. Sadly enough, the Election Commission is not playing its due role in…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT : In the 11th parliamentary election, around 42,000 polling stations will be set up for more than 104 million voters. Around 17,000 with only 146 international observers,will monitor the upcoming 11th parliamentary election, slated for December 30. The Representation of People’s Order 1972 (R.P.O. 1972) under Article 2 (viiib) provides…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has opened a Facebook page titled ‘Rab Cyber News Verification Centre’ to aware people over false news and rumours spread during the 11th parliamentary election, reports UNB. Director General (DG) of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Benazir Ahmed revealed it at a press conference arranged to brief journalists…
DOT Desk Just days ahead of the 11th national elections, Election Commissioner Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury today said “situation is under control”, reports The Daily Star. He came up with the remark in response to a query by reporters at the Election Commission in Dhaka’s Agargaon this afternoon. Shahadat’s comment comes a day after Election Commissioner…
Lamiya Sira, Blogger based in Abu Dhabi/Gulf News Reader questions whether lavish wedding parties are necessary The year 2018 seemed to be the year of marriages, for both celebrities and royalty. Social media was flooded with the pictures of these weddings, including the royal wedding in the UK and those of famous Bollywood celebrities. Each…
Fawaz Turki, Journalist, lecturer and author based in Washington/Gulf News Palestinians may be pauperised and starved, but they are gaining support globallyLexicographers are not the drudges we imagine them to be, gofers who merely compile, edit and write dictionaries, but astute monitors of those semantic fashions of expression that define the inward preoccupations of our…
Hossen Sohel of DOT BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said holding a fair election under the Awami League government is not possible, reports UNB. “The election process has turned into a farce and no election atmosphere is prevailing in the country as all the attacks are made on BNP people. It’s very…
Arafat Hasan of DOT The Access to Information (a2i) Program of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has won nine international awards in different categories as well as a national award this year for various digital innovations. This has led to Bangladesh winning the “World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Prize-2018” in the ICT sector for…
WION News Bangladesh is poised on the threshold of momentous elections. The contest is believed to be a close one. Sheikh Hasina has been in power for over a decade and though she continues to be popular she will have to contend with the anti-incumbency sentiment. She has relentlessly pursued the accomplices of her father’s…