BSS: The Election Commission will hold Upazila Parishad elections in five phases from first week of March. The commission secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed on Monday said schedule of the election will be announced in the first week of February. In first four phases, elections to most of upazila parishads will be held and in…
DOT Desk: The telecom regulator is set to introduce a registration process for all mobile handsets in the country with a view to mitigating the challenges of illegal import, theft, cloning, organised crimes and health hazard, reports The Daily Star. The mobile operators themselves will register the handsets that are in use in its network,…
DOT Desk: DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to award jail terms along with fines for those found guilty of food adulteration, reports The Dhaka Tribune. During an anti-adulteration drive on Sunday, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) fined popular restaurants Star Kabab’s Dhanmondi branch Tk5,000, Sultan’s Dine in the Satmasjid Road…
Monirul Alam of DOT : The government has raised wages for the Ready Made Garment (RMG) workers yesterday aiming to put an end to an impasse that triggered from ongoing agitation against discriminatory hike in salaries and owners’ warning to shut down industries. Labour Secretary Afroza Khan made the announcement of revised wage structures at…
BBC: A failure to deliver Brexit would be “a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy”, Prime Minister Theresa May has warned. Writing in the Sunday Express, Mrs May pleaded with MPs to back her Brexit deal in Tuesday’s crunch Commons vote. Not doing so risks the UK leaving the EU with no…
Reuters: An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family this week saying she feared for her life arrived in Toronto’s international airport on Saturday after being granted asylum in Canada, where Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland welcomed her as a brave new Canadian. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun grabbed international attention this week after she barricaded herself in…
CNN: Jamal Khashoggi probably thought the messages he was sending to fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz were hidden, cloaked in WhatsApp security. In reality they were compromised — along with the rest of Abdulaziz’s phone, which had allegedly been infected by Pegasus, a powerful piece of malware designed to spy on its users. Abdulaziz, as…
South China Morning Post: US President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and are among possible US candidates to replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, according to a report on Friday. Kim abruptly announced Monday he was cutting short his tenure as the bank’s president more…
DOT Desk: BDNP Chairrson Khaleda Zia today said the opposition can be from out of the parliament if the party works for the benefit of the people, reports The Daily Star. She made the remarks at the makeshift court set up inside Old Dhaka Central Jail during a hearing on the Niko graft case. During today’s…
BBC: A lack of accurate maps is a big problem in parts of Africa: for disaster relief agencies, local authorities and people looking for safe places to build homes. Could cheap survey drones and local volunteers help plug the gaps? Khadija Abdulla Ali is an unlikely drone pilot in the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar. Conservatively…