Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The Election Commission has sent a letter to the Inspector General of Police Javed Patwari asking him to submit a probe report over the attack on Dr Kamal Hossain’s motorcade in Dhaka on December 14. In the letter, the IGP has been told to investigate the attack and submit a report…
The Guardian North Korea has warned that new US sanctions against senior figures in the regime are a “deliberate provocation” that could derail its attempts to denuclearize, six months after its leader, Kim Jong-un held historic talks with Donald Trump. In a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, the North praised Trump for…
Xinhua : Diets all over the world are lacking vitamins and minerals essential for healthy growth, Australia’s peak scientific body found. An analysis of global diets, released by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) on Monday, revealed that the worldwide intake of calcium, vitamin D, vitamin E and folate is likely to remain…
UNB The government is moving ahead with a plan to open a $35 billion investment opportunity for private investors in the country’s power transmission sector. According to official sources in the Power Division, the private sector`s enormous success in power generation has prompted the government to invite them to invest in the transmission segment of…
Julian Francis has worked for many years in Bangladesh with poverty alleviation programmes and disability related programmes/BDnews24 As coordinator of OXFAM’s refugee relief programme in India which cared for 600,000 women, men and children, I was worried about many things in December 1971. The roads to the refugee camps we were supporting were choked with…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The severe Cyclonic storm called ‘Phethai’ over the west-central Bay and adjoining southwest Bay moved northwards and weakened, according to the Met office. A special bulletin of the Met office said it is likely to move further Northwards and may cross Andhra Pradesh coast of India by yesterday afternoon, reports UNB….
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT In its election manifesto, Jatiya Oikyafront promised that the price of electricity and gas will not be hiked in the first year if they are voted to power. Electricity price will not be raised in the next five years for consumers using a maximum 100-unit a month, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, a…
Saima Mir, Freelance journalist/ Gulf News There is a tide of proud and arrogant patriarchy waiting to sweep up our boys The world of work does not look favourably on childbirth and parenthood, despite the legislation in place. Stay-at-home parents fare no better. This is something that most of us only discover after we take…
DOT Desk After playing a Test and an One-day International series, Bangladesh and the visiting West Indies are now gearing up for the three-match T20 International series which is set to begin today (Monday) at Sylhet International Stadium, reports Daily Sun. Bangladesh clinched both the series by showing tremendous effort against the vesting West Indies….
Independent, UK Interbreeding with Neanderthals thousands of years ago has given some humans alive today more elongated brains, according to a new study. Scientists connected two ancient DNA fragments that have been passed down to select people of European heritage with slight changes in skull and therefore brain shape. A key feature of the human…