James Dobbins, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in diplomacy and security at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, a former assistant Secretary of State & author/BDnews24 The Trump administration has begun to roll back the president’s announced pullout from Syria. On Dec 19 Trump said Islamic State had been defeated; his officials now acknowledge not entirely….
Satish Deshpande/Indian Express Being poor is different from belonging to lower castes, even though most poor belong to lower castes. If we set aside the most obvious objections to the proposal to provide 10 per cent reservation for the so-called “general category” — it is a cynical election stunt, will prove legally unsustainable, and does…
Azeezah Kanji/Aljazeera Recent examples of expatriation practices in the UK and Australia demonstrate a glaring anti-Muslim bias. In the name of “safeguarding” civilisation, the forces waging the “war on terror” have revived a form of punishment once described by the United States Supreme Court as “more primitive than torture”: the stripping of citizenship. Forced denationalisation…
BSS: Rangpur Metro-politan Police (RpMP) Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Alim Mahmud distributed blankets among a large number of cold-stricken distressed people of the city. Alim visited different areas around midnight and distributed the blankets from his own contribution among the cold-hit street beggars, distressed men, women and children, at several spots of the metropolis to mitigate…
DOT Desk: Rafiath Rashid Mithila stars in well known director Partha Sen’s short film, ‘Mukhomukhi’, opposite Kolkata actor Gaurav Chakraborty. The short film, which was released recently, revolves around a Bangladeshi filmmaker who travels to Kolkata for professional purposes and ends up befriending a man, reports The Daily Star. Mithila, who has proven herself with…
UNB: Dhaka University (DU) authorities on Thursday extended the deadline until January 14 for student organisations to submit recommendations for the amendment to the existing Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) constitution. Prof Dr Md Mizanur Rahman, chief of the five-member committee which was formed to take suggestions from the student organisationss, said this after…
DOT Desk: Hawkers are synonymous with the streets of Dhaka – in almost every corner of this city, one comes across hawkers peddling a range of goods, essential or otherwise, reports The Dhaka Tribune. In recent years, booksellers have also become a staple on our streets, bringing some much needed relief to those spending endless…
DOT Desk: The national award-winning director Kazi Hayat is currently hospitalised at Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He is being accompanied by his son, Kazi Maruf, reports The Daily Star. Last Wednesday, Kazi Hayat cleared rumours regarding his death, on a Facebook live video. His son, too, requested everyone to keep his father in their…
DOT Desk: Increasing export of paper and tissue has created a window for local mills to utilise their huge unused capacity and bring home foreign currency, Reports The Daily Star. Bangladesh’s 110 paper mills, with a capacity of producing more than 15 lakh tonnes of paper and paper products annually, can use less than half…
DOT Desk: The state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) is back in making profits from oil trading, thanks to a downtrend in oil prices in the international market, reports The Financial Express. The BPC earned profits of Tk 100 million from trading on Wednesday, newly-appointed BPC chairman Md Shamsur Rahman told the FE on Thursday. He…