Hossen Sohel of DOT Chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed yesterday said the army has been successful in gaining the confidence of people by properly performing their duties during the parliamentary elections, reports UNB. He came up with the observation at the inaugural function of Jalsiri Housing Project at Purbachal here in the morning….
Gil Troy/The Jerusalem Post Walker’s good Jews are those nice universalists who “leave race and culture and religion/Handed to us at birth behind.” Last week, the Alice Walker antisemitism controversy shifted from the New York Times to the History News Network (HNN). This time, legendary novelist Walker and a historian stooge proved downright Trumpian in…
Lukman Harees/Islam21c.com The future of more than 10 million Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority in (what is now) China, is looking increasingly bleak and grim. The current massive crackdown by the Chinese government being waged against them, carried out in the name of “de-extremification”, has still not raised enough eyebrows. China is sparing no pains…
Channel News Asia: Five women and three men died in Wednesday’s train accident on a bridge linking Denmark’s two main islands, police said on Thursday (Jan 3), raising the toll from six. Police said they had identified four of the bodies but bad weather and severe damage to the train made an initial investigation difficult….
New Straits Times: When Singapore’s government said it would exhume about 4,000 graves in the defunct Bukit Brown cemetery for an eight-lane highway, an unusually vocal campaign grew quickly to save one of the last remaining artefacts of the past in the modern city. The cemetery, a rare patch of jungle surrounded by manicured gardens…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Indian police yesterday took Rohingya families to the border by bus, readying to deport them to neighboring Myanmar, making it the second time the ethnic groups were expelled in four months during a crackdown on illegal immigrants. India’s Hindu nationalist government regards the Rohingya as illegal aliens and a security risk….
DOT Desk: Police detained two assistant sub-inspectors of police allegedly for trying to snatch smuggled gold from Navaron intersection in Sharsha upazila of Benapole, reports the Financial Express. Sharsha Police arrested ASI Ishak of Kolaroa Police Station and Mamun Reza of Patkelghata Police Station and two alleged gold smugglers – Mamun Reza’s brother Ashik Reza…
Daniel Sullivan/Fair Observer Bangladesh and the UN must continue to work together to improve the conditions for nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees. The year 2018 was a dire and desperate year for the Rohingya minority from western Myanmar. Two-thirds of the population that had been living in western Rakhine State before the end of 2017…
Suraj Yengde Postdoctoral fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy/ Aljazeera The future of the untouchables’ struggle lies in international solidarity and collective work. Being a Dalit means being in permanent isolation, stuck in the dark chambers of one’s uncharted fears. The Dalit is that stubbornness that the Hindu ideology has…
DOT Desk: Ahsan Habib earned acclaim as a poet in the 1940s, reports The Daily Observer. He was an urban poet through and through — both in terms of language and sensibility. His poems reflect the social reality of his times, relationships, and focus on the concerns of the middle class. The poet was born…