Maj Gen (retd) Abdur Rashid speaks to DOT There is no international pressure behind the influx of Rohingyas from India. Pressure is on to take back the Rohingyas from Bangladesh. The international pressure has grown even more. In recent times, some Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from India. There are some 40,000 Rohingyas in…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed writes for DOT All present there are 80 prison cells in Bangladesh. Among them, there are 4 central jails, 30 district prisons, 27 sub-jails and 16 thana jails. About fifty thousand prisoners are accommodated in these jails but in reality the number is over one lac. All prisoners are not guilty…
Afsan Chowdhury speaks to DOT National Oikyafront will survive if it joins Parliament, but will disintegrate if it chooses not to. National Oikyafront was made up of several opposition parties. If these all decide to join parliament, they’ll remain united even outside the House. If they choose not to, it’ll be impossible for them to…
Arafat Hasan of DOT : The Election Commission has announced the schedule for the Dhaka North City Corporation by-polls, reported The Daily Star. After a meeting at the Nirbachan Bhaban yesterday evening, Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed announced that the election schedule will commence from February 28. Elections to the councilor posts in the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Noted musician and freedom fighter Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul passed away at the age of 63 at his Aftabnagar residence in Dhaka this morning. He was taken to Universal Medical College and Hospital around 6:15am, where the doctors, after necessary tests, declared him dead, Dr Ashis Chakraborti, managing director of the…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT : Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered an oath to the new law makers who won in the 11th parliamentary election on January 3, following the publication of a gazette. Following this, a High Court bench of justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and justice Razik Al Jalil on Monday set January 31…
Syed Badrul Ahsan writes for DOT : Seventy three years after he died or went missing, in the corporeal sense of the meaning, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose continues to exert tremendous influence on Bengali lives. It is therefore only natural that we go back to him and try to understand the man and the politics…
AFP: At least 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, sources said Tuesday, in the latest high-casualty attack on beleaguered Afghan forces. The new toll from Monday’s Taliban-claimed attack in central Wardak province is far higher than earlier figures of 12 dead, and comes after a day of confusion,…
Md. Fakrul Islam Chowdhury writes for DOT : Singapore is going to abolish exams for primary years 1 and 2 students, starting in 2019, Marks and grades are set to be replaced by Discussions, homework and quizzes are set to as the preferred method of collecting information on the performance of young primary school pupils….
Hossen Sohel of DOT Rapid Action Battalion raided at least 15 houses in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj and detained a suspected member of the banned militant outfit Jamaa’atul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) yesterday, reports The Daly Star. The elite force members arrested Monirul Islam, 35, to interrogate him, reports our Chapainawabganj correspondent quoting Lt Col Mahbubul…