Arafat Hasan of DOT Thousands of people took to the streets in Paris on Sunday to protest weeks of anti-government demonstrations by the Yellow Vests movement. The group calling itself the Red Scarves gathered in Nation Square and marched to Bastille Square, chanting “enough” and “end the violence”. Laurent Soulie, a 51-year-old aeronautics engineer, told…
Reuters: The Netherlands will refuse an Italian request to accept 47 migrants on humanitarian ship that is being blocked from Italian ports, it said in a statement on Monday. The Sea Watch 3, run by a German humanitarian group and flying a Dutch flag, recovered the migrants out of a rubber boat off Libya more…
Reuters: Mala-ysian prosecutors on Monday charged former prime minister Najib Razak with three more counts of money laundering, allegedly receiving the proceeds of illegal activities in his personal bank accounts. After unexpectedly losing an election to Mahathir Mohamad in May last year, Najib has been slapped with a series of corruption charges, mostly tied to…
BBC: At least 15 people were killed when a landslide crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in south-eastern Peru, officials say. The impact of the mud and rocks forced the building’s walls and roof to cave in while guests were inside dancing. Twenty-nine people were injured and had to be pulled from the…
Geo TV: Venezuela´s self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido called Sunday for two new protests, in an effort to push the military to turn against leader Nicolas Maduro and back a European ultimatum demanding free elections within the week. In a video posted on Twitter, the head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly said the first of the…
AAMS Arefin Siddique speaks to DOT : During a recent visit at several Chittagong schools, the Anti-Corruption Commission chief has found most of the teachers absent. Though the scenario does not represent the entire country, it is not another separate happening. I think this kind of incident will be found in parts of Bangladesh. When…
Md. Fakrul Islam Chowdhury writes for DOT : She is only nine. But we are not talking about her biological age here. We are talking about an era increasingly influenced by the new generation of “Influencers” who dominates the social media, thus our entire online/offline planet, specially, in the West part of it. Lil Tay,…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation is set to procure 600 new buses from India under the second Indian line of credit this year to ensure quality passenger services, according to officials, reports The New Age. The corporation officials hope that the new buses would enhance BRTC services. The new buses will also increase revenue…
DOT Desk: Following the government’s decision to procure less rice from the local rice mills (chatal) this year than that of the previous years, most of the rice mills in the district are idle now, reports The Daily Star. As a result, a huge number of day labourers, who earn their livelihood by working as…
Sky News: The search for survivors after a dam collapsed at a mine in Brazil has resumed after a second dam was ruled safe. Rescue crews were held off for several hours over fears the adjacent dam might also be breached. Residents have been allowed back into the town of Brumadinho, where the mine is…