Scroll: Malay-alam film director Priyanandan, who recently courted controversy for a Facebook post on the entry of women into Sabariama, was attacked by unidentified men at a shop near his home in Vallachira in Kerala’s Thrissur district on Friday. The incident occurred around 9 am, reported Mathrubhumi.Leaders of Hindutva outfits have alleged that the remarks,…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Nearly 400 Bangladeshi migrants are currently in jails on the cross-border areas of the United States of America and Mexico after they were detained by the law enforcement agencies for attempting to enter the US illegally, reports New Age. They were the victims of transnational trafficking who crossed the Atlantic convinced…
DOT Desk: Thirty-one private universities of the country have failed to move to their own campuses even after extension deadlines set by the University Grants Commission (UGC) several times, reports The Daily Sun. The authorities of the private institutions are reluctant to go by the UGC directive as they continue to run their activities at…
DOT Desk: Goldman-1 was the drama Channel i aired on last year’s International Customs Day. The drama has drawn almost four million viewers on YouTube, reports The Daily Observer. Thus the channel has decided to add a sequel to the drama this year. The drama named Sharna Manab-2 or “Goldman-2” was aired yesterday.
Arab News: Turkey may establish its own 32km security zone in northern Syria to keep Kurdish militias away from its border, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. The threat by Ankara to “go it alone” with a buffer zone follows silence from Washington on US involvement in the plan. President Donald Trump proposed…
UNB: A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Kanelpara in Sadar upazila yesterday. The deceased was identified as Habibur Rahman Hubba, 50, son of Siraj Malitha. Monir Hossain, a sub-inspector at Kushtia Model Police Station, said a police team conducted the drive around 3 pm on information that a…
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr./ WSJ We in the media have our hands full with newsmakers who are frauds and sensationalists. One can never wear out Walter Lippmann’s observation that journalists traffic in stereotypes, not only because they enable “economy of effort.” The stereotypes we embrace also assure us of our own status, such that “any…
BSS: The Department of Agriculture Extension is completing distribution of special agriculture incentives worth Taka 12.15 crore among 90,440 small and marginal farmers of Rangpur agriculture region. Officials of the DAE said the incentives, in terms of seed and fertilisers, are being distributed among the beneficiary farmers to assist them in cultivating eight varieties of…
Eurek Alert: Much like our fight-or-flight response, our cells also have a stress autopilot mode. An oxygen dropoff, overheating, or an invading toxin can trigger the cellular stress response – a cascade of molecular changes that are the cell’s last-ditch effort to survive. Among these survival strategies is the formation of “stress granules” – proteins…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT At least 1,441 incidents of violence against women and children occurred in the country last year, Zinat Ara Haque, executive coordinator of We Can Bangladesh, has said. Of them, 996 were women and the rest were children, with around half the incidents taking place in Dhaka division, reports The Daily Star….