UNB BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday urged voters to go to polling stations on December 30, defying “obstacles and threats from the government.” “The opposition parties have united to wage a movement for change with the ‘sheaf of paddy’ (BNP’s electoral symbol),” he told a road rally near Kanchan Bridge in…
James Dobbins, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in diplomacy and security at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, a former assistant secretary of state, and author/BDnews24 President Donald Trump’s planned withdrawal of American troops from Syria, a move that prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, was the right decision in the wrong way and…
BSS Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the AL has come to power every time in democratic way by attaining the people’s mandate in elections as the party does politics for the people’s welfare. “Awami League stresses on progress. As democracy prevails here, the country is achieving progress,” he told an electioneering street…
UNB Bangladesh will be able to import power from the neighbouring countries via India as the Indian government has approved the ‘Guidelines for Import/Export (Cross Border) of Electricity- 2018’ which was published on December 18. According to section 3.1 of the guideline of ‘Cross-border Trade of Electricity’, the cross-border transaction between India and the neighbouring…
Raj Ahmed of DOT Main opposition party BNP has alleged that military deployment is “not making a difference” in ensuring fair election atmosphere in the country. “Over 100 of our men including 19 of our candidates were injured in attacks in 24 hours,” alleged Rizvi Ahmed, senior joint secretary of BNP. “The situation on the…
Dominique Moisi, Senior Counselor at the Institut Montaigne in Paris/My Republica Are the Yellow Vest protests across France as consequential as the mass rallies of May 1968? It is too soon to say. The revolt has forced French President Emmanuel Macron to make significant and costly concessions, but it is hardly a new French Revolution….
DOT Desk Duronto Television will telecast three children’s films on Christmas, all of which have been dubbed in Bangla, reports The New Age. The films are namely A Christmas Carol, Look Who’s Talking Now and The Naughty List. A Christmas Carol, based on a novel by Charles Dickens, has been directed by Robert Zemeckis. The…
Channel News Asia An hours-long gun and suicide attack on a Kabul government compound killed at least 43 people, the health ministry said Tuesday (Dec 25), making it one of the deadliest assaults on the Afghan capital this year. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the raid, which caps a bloody year for Afghanistan…
DOT Desk The government has approved proposals for setting up six power plants that would generate 257 megawatts (MW) of electricity from renewable sources, reports The Financial Express. A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on government procurement, chaired by Finance Minister A M A Muhith, approved the proposals on Monday. The minister, however, felt that…
DOT Desk Labour leaders of the country’s readymade garment sector have again called on all agitating workers to join their work and continue the production activities peacefully, reports The Financial Express. They also assured that the labour federations would extend all-out support to resolve any issue after the national election scheduled to be held on…