Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan writes for DOT : Gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her timely intervention to fix the pay raise fiasco of the Garment workers who have been on the street for the last few days demanding the elimination of disparity related to pay raise. A joint meeting of…
DOT Desk: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir should resign from his party shouldering the responsibility for the failures both in the movement and the election, reports The Daily Star. “As a secretary general he couldn’t carry out a movement for 10 minutes over the last…
Hindustan Times: Four of the five nuns of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation, who supported their colleagues when she levelled rape charges against former bishop of Jalandhar Franco Mullakkal, have been asked to leave the convent in Kuravilangad of Kerala’s Kottayam. “You have chosen in your own individual capacity to support and pursue the legal…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Veteran journalist Amanullah Kabir passed away at the age of 72, reports bdnews24.com. He breathed his last around 1 am at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) yesterday. His journalistic career spanned more than four decades. Kabir joined country’s first online news portal bdnews24.com as a senior editor in 2013….
The Guardian, UK: A court in Montengro has sentenced an investigative journalist to 18 months in prison, on charges that press freedom advocates have described as bogus and intended as a warning to others in the Balkan country. The court in Podgorica handed down the sentence to Jovo Martinović on Monday, finding him guilty of…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Char Jabbar Police Station OC Nizam Uddin has been withdrawn on charge of negligence in his duty on the election day in Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila, reports The Daily Observer. Ilias Sharif, superintendent of Noakhali police, confirmed media about the withdrawal yesterday. Sudharampur Police Station inspector Md Shahed Chowdhury took the charge…
Alberto Salvo, Associate professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore/ Today Online News reports of a study I authored, published in Nature Communications last month, have put the spotlight on how different segments of society may be affected by climate change. What can we infer from…
Anadolu Agency: One-third of UN staffers and contractors said they have been sexually harassed in the past two years, the international body said in a report released late Tuesday evening. Consulting firm Deloitte carried out the online survey in November, which included responses from over 30,000 people, but that is just 17 percent of those…
DOT Desk: A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned till January 24 the hearing on charge framing in the Gatco corruption case as two of the accused including BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia could not appear before it due to illness, reports Daily Star. While fixing the next date, Judge Abu Syed Diljar Hossain of the Special Judge…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The High Court yesterday cleared the way for holding elections to Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral post and polls in the 36 new wards under the two Dhaka city corporations, reports The Daily Star. The court lifted its earlier order that stayed the process for holding the DNCC and DSCC elections….