Jan Egeland, Secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council/Aljazeera The international community must brace itself for deepening and largely neglected emergencies in 2019. The year 2018 is about to end with seemingly little having been achieved to resolve major crises around the world. Syrians continued to try to flee their country as conflict raged on. Over…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Election Commission today okayed the plying of motorcycles by journalists on election day December 30, provided that they display the approval sticker of the commission, reports The Daily Star. Asadul Haq, deputy director (public relations) of the commission said that that the previous ban is not valid for motorcycles with stickers…
DOT Desk Jatiya Oikyafront Convever Dr Kamal Hossain today said no development is meaningful if people’s right is not established in the country, reports The Daily Star. Dr Kamal, also president of Gonoforum, a component of Oikyafront, said this at a press briefing held at the alliance’s Purana Paltan office in Dhaka this afternoon….
Monirul Alam of DOT Bangladesh’s income from merchandise exports to European Union (EU) has been estimated to decline by 9.5 percent annually from the year 2024 as an impact of graduation of the South Asian country from the category of Least Developed Country (LDC) to developing nation’s status. Policy Research Institute (PRI), while disclosing a…
Daily Mail, UK Afghanistan’s election organisers are again considering postponing April’s presidential ballot for two months, an official said Thursday, in an attempt to avoid a repeat of October’s shambolic legislative vote. The remarks come at a sensitive time for Afghanistan as the Taliban step up their bloody offensive and President Donald Trump’s plan to…
Hossen Sohel of DOT UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all stakeholders to ensure an environment free of violence, intimidation and coercion before, during and after the general election in Bangladesh, so as to enable a peaceful, credible and inclusive polls, reports The Daily Sun. “All Bangladeshi citizens, including minorities and women, must feel…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed the officials and employees of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on the last working day of her current tenure yesterday. The premier at the PMO said she felt proud of being the daughter Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, not as the country’s premier, reports BSS. “I feel…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT In a move to alert its citizens living in Bangladesh, the US embassy in Dhaka has encouraged all US citizens to obtain a visa before travelling to the south Asian country. “If friends or family members intend to visit you in Bangladesh, we strongly recommend they obtain a visa before…
DOT Desk At least 180 rooms at the workers’ colony in Chakrawarty area of the Gazipur were gutted in a fire yesterday, reports The Daily Star. The fire originated from an electric short circuit at a tin-shed room of the colony around 4:45am and spread soon, according to the local office of the Fire…
Yascha Mounk, Lecturer on government at Harvard University & Jordan Kyle, Senior fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change/The Atlantic According to our research, populist governments have deepened corruption, eroded individual rights, and inflicted serious damage on democratic institutions. When Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election in October to the consternation of the…