Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed writes for DOT : BNP Secretary General voiced strong doubt about credible polls scheduled to take place today. He further added that it is not easy to revive the “dead democracy as people have lost their confidence in the country’s election system”. He also said they could not carry out the electioneering…
AFP: Egyptian police killed 40 “terrorists” in separate raids early Saturday, a day after a roadside bomb near the Giza pyramids killed three Vietnamese tourists and their guide, the interior ministry said. Two raids in the Giza governorate killed 30 “terrorists”, while the remaining 10 were killed in the restive North Sinai, the ministry said…
Abrar Hussain of DOT In a statement she made from jail yesterday, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has urged supporters to ‘guard voting centers’ on today’s big election. Her message was read out by BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi during a media briefing yesterday. Khaleda, who served two terms as prime minister cannot participate…
Tech Explorist BHF scientists have recently made a key revelation the body’s own immune system plays a vital role in the mysterious heart condition i.e., broken heart syndrome. Heart and circulatory disease cause more than a quarter (26 percent) of all deaths in the UK. Over half a million people in the UK are living…
DOT Desk Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-13) arrested two alleged drug traders and two notorious thieves with an enormous quantity of drugs, a stolen motorcycle and other goods from different areas of Rangpur on Thursday night, reports The Financial Express BD. “An operational team of the Crime Prevention Specialised Company of RAB-13 from its battalion headquarters…
DOT Desk Farmers are deflated by the drop in paddy prices, which will leave them with hardly any profit from the current bumper aman harvests. Aman is the second biggest crop out of the three rice crops produced by growers in a year, accounting roughly for 38 percent of the total production, reports the Daily…
Julian Matthews, Postdoctoral Research Officer – Cognitive Neurology Laboratory, Monash University/ The Conversation, Australia Does it ever strike you as odd that you and a friend can experience the same event at the same time, but come away with different memories of what happened? So why is it that people can recall the same thing…
DOT Desk A schoolboy was found dead at his house at Hamdah in Jhenaidah district town on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Samiul Alam, a class VI student of Jhenaidah Government Boys’ School and son of Alamgir Hossain, former chairman of Kalicharanpur union, reports The Financial Express BD. Mother of the victim Shahida Parveen,…
AFP: A team of British divers who helped save a junior football team stranded in a flooded cave in Thailand were awarded in Britain’s traditional New Year Honours alongside former supermodel Twiggy and Monty Python’s Michael Palin. The seven underwater specialists involved in the remarkable rescue were also joined on the prestigious annual achievement list…
Noor Majid: During the past decade, our South-East Asian neighbor Myanmar accelerated its illegal narcotics trade. The notorious Golden Triangle region situated at the border near the Thailand and Laos has become its main drug producing center. The opium cultivation has taken its lead in Myanmar’s Shaan state, which borders Laos and Thailand. The opium…