DOT Desk: Although there are couple of weeks more to an ending winter, some of the mango trees have started sprouting early in Rajshahi region, reports The Financial Express. Mango trees are sprouting early at various places like Vatapara, Gourhanga, Bheripara, Police line, Malopara, Meherchandi and Bhadra in the city. But extent of flowering is…
Anadolu Agency: The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will decommission 40,000 combatants of its Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAFF) when the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) will be ratified, local media reported on Sunday. A plebiscite will be held on Jan. 21 and Feb. 6 to ratify the bill and once the BOL is ratified, the…
Science Alert: Reproductive coercive control is where a woman’s decisions about contraception and pregnancy are interfered with. The concept was first described in 2010. We wanted to update the evidence to 2017 and widen the range of control activities to include family pressure and criminal behaviour, such as sex trafficking. We found that up to…
DOT Desk: During the Rabi season, potato is known as the cash crop in Baghmara Upazila of the district. The local fields are full of potato trees of one to one and a half months old. Meanwhile, because of dense fog in the morning for last three to four days, the farmers are worried about…
DOT Desk: A government delegation will go to Darul Uloom Deoband in India on January 15 for settling the ongoing row between two factions of Bangladesh Tabligh Jamaat over Maulana Muhammad Saad Al Kandhalvi’s leadership, reports The New Age. The eight-member delegation, led by state minister for religious affairs Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, will talk to…
CNN: The world’s biggest cigarette seller, Philip Morris International (PMI), is making the “the biggest shift” in its history as it pledged to replace traditional cigarettes with smoke-free products. The international tobacco giant, the producer of popular Marlboro and Parliament, as well as more than a dozen other brands, wants to switch hundreds of…
Raj Ahmed of DOT Law Minister Anisul Huq claimed that the government is ‘continuously’ trying to bring back BNP senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman to Bangladesh, reported The Daily Star. “The government is trying to bring back all fugitive convicts including Tarique Rahman to the country for putting them on trial,” the minister said yesterday…
Raj Ahmed of DOT The High Court has granted anticipatory bail to Barrister Mainul Hosein for six months in 13 defamation cases, The Daily Star reported. The court also stayed the trial proceedings of 15 defamation cases filed against Hosein for the next six months. The bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice Zafar…
Shahidul Alam,who was freed from Keraniganj, Dhaka’s central jail, on 20 November 2018/The Guardian, UK The Bangladeshi photographer was charged with criticising his country on Facebook and spent more than 100 days behind bars. Now freed, he replies to the Indian novelist who wrote to him in jail It was a letter I read and…
Mihir Zaveri, Guilbert Gates & Karen Zraick /The New York Times At midnight on Saturday, the shutdown entered its 22nd day, which makes it the longest gap in American government funding ever.That beats the previous record, under President Bill Clinton in 1995, of 21 days. In total, there have been 21 gaps in government funding…