Dr. Asif Nazrul speaks to DOT: The senior judge of a two-member High Court bench on December 12 ruled in favour of BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s participation in the national election, but the junior judge disagreed with him. Following the split order, Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain assigned another HC bench to hear and dispose…
Noor Majid of DOT : In modern combat Tank and armored divisions are considered as the spearhead of any military ground intervention. A classical way of war of movements mastered and successfully executed by German General Heinz Guderian during Second World War. This kind of warfare demands flexible and fast maneuver of troops to attack…
Brigadier General Sakhawat Hossain speaks to DOT : The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) on December 18 said that Mahbub Talukdar, the Election Commissioner did not speak the truth about atmosphere ahead of the December 30 national election. The Election Commissioner on the following day protested CEC’s comment, stating that CEC’s comment hurt him as an…
Dr Emazuddin Ahmed speaks to DOT : Attacking the polls campaigns is a bad sign. The government does not want the next general election to be held freely and fairly and it is in fear of the votes to be cast by the countrymen, greatly. Sheikh Hasina has sensed that she will not succeed if…
DOT Desk The Daily Star special arrangement ‘Election Talks 2018’ is going on with the topic of upcoming national elections, contemporary politics and incident-accidents regarding the election and its interpretation and analysis. Ali Imam Majumder attended the ceremony and talked about his concerns for a fair election. The program was moderated by the daily star’s…
Kalyan Chakroborty writes for DOT : Those who have any basic knowledge about social media are familiar with the term ‘troll.’ Apart from or alongside fun, trolls might be a digital form of bullying. Sometimes trolls might become so scandalous that the reputation of a person might be at stake. Recently, a contestant of Miss…
Daily Star At least 11 people were killed and 20 others injured as a bus smashed a human-hauler at Haridaspur in Gopalganj town on Thursday evening. Three of the deceased were identified as the human-hauler driver Rajib Mollah, Saddam Mollah and Morshed Gazi. Monirul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said the ‘Golden Line’ bus…
Charles M. Blow, Opinion Columnist/ The New York Times How can a family that can’t run a charity run a country? I will be going on book leave soon — today is my last column for a while because of the holiday schedule — to write what I believe to be the most important thing…
Daily Star Bangladesh have won the second T20I by 36 runs to level the T20 series against the West Indies after captain Shakib Al Hasan followed up his exploits with the bat to bag five wickets with the ball. Earlier Bangladesh posted their second-highest T20 score as Liton Das played a blindind 34-ball 60-run…
DOT Desk Significant changes to the Brick Production and Brick Kiln Building (Control) Act of 2013 will pave the way to more pollution from mushrooming brick kilns, experts and environmentalists said. Under Bangladesh’s current five-year plan, when the government is committed to reducing air pollution to zero by 2020, the presidential ordinance published on November…