DOT Desk: Dhaka Uni-versity Film Society held the 125th World Film Manifestation Programme on fantasy films at three different venues in the capital from December 6 to 8, reports The anew Age. Organised in association with Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and Alliance Francaise de Dhaka, the three-day programme screened six local, German and French fantasy films. The…
BSS: Over 500 grassroots people at a folk-show here on Tuesday expressed their commitment of resisting terrorism and militancy collectively. They also took oath of supplementing the government efforts for freeing the country from the curse of terrorism and militancy. Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organization (ASSEDO) organized the folk-show ‘Gamvira’ on Dogachhi Government Primary…
Himanjali Sankar/ Scroll.In An excerpt from Himanjali Sankar’s ‘The Lies We Tell’, told from the point of view of 17-year-old Irfan Ahmed. I didn’t do it. Why would I send Uma’s photo, that was meant only for me, to Rishi and Abhishek and a bunch of other random classmates? It was for me. Why would…
DOT Desk: The government will establish a cancer hospital and a kidney hospital in each divisional city as the number of cancer and kidney patients are on the rise in the country, new Health Minister Zahid Malik has said, reports The Daily Sun. “A kidney unit comprising 10 beds will be set up in every…
Mihir Sharma, Columnist and author/ Gulf News Prime Minister Hasina will have to rebuild the institutions that have been destroyed Bangladesh under Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina looks like a developing-world success story. Last year, its economy grew at close to eight per cent a year, faster than its neighbour India’s. Its human development indicators, as…
CNBC: The United Nations has asked Australia to consider refugee resettlement for an 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled to Thailandsaying she feared her family would kill her, the Australian government said yesterday. The teenager, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, arrived in Bangkok on the weekend appealing for asylum. Australia said it would consider resettling her if the…
DOT Desk: Workers and drivers of BRTC bus depot at Joar Sahara called off their strike this noon on an assurance by the authorities that their arrears will be paid in full by August this year, report The Daily Star. The protesters called off their strike around 11:45am after a “fruitful” meeting with the BRTC…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A Dhaka court yesterday directed Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit by February 10 the probe report on the case filed over the cyber heist of $101 million from the account of Bangladesh Bank in 2016 — one of the biggest cyber crimes in the world, reports The Daily Star. Metropolitan…
Priyamvada Gopal, ecturer at Cambridge University/ The Guardian, UK David Olusoga has attempted to justify his honour. But surely black and Asian Britons should try to undo imperial delusions Acentury ago the eminent Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore returned his knighthood to the viceroy of India. The “time has come when badges of honour make our…
UNB: from a mango tree near their house at Mahdipur village in Bagha upazila. The deceased was identified as Ismat Ara Begum, 26, wife of Mitul Hossain, an Italy expatriate. Quoting locals, police said Ismat Ara has been rebuked by her father-in-law over beating her six-year-old son for playing with dust at their yard in…