Hossen Sohel of DOT Awami League’s nomination board will sit on January 26 to determine their candidates for DNCC mayoral election and Kishoreganj-1 polls, reports The Daily Star. The party’s general secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday confirmed the matter while replying to a query by journalists after a view-exchange meeting with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA)…
Ramzy Baroud/ Middle East Monitor The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran should pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the forceful expulsion of Jews from Arab countries during the late 1940s. The events that Israel cites allegedly occurred at a time…
Isaac Chotiner/ The New Yorker In her new book, “Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts,” Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of the Times, examines how four large American news organizations are surviving the age of the Internet and Donald Trump. Abramson’s accounts of Vice, BuzzFeed, the Washington Post,…
Durdana Nuzat Mahmood and Samiul Azim writes for DOT : The struggle for trade union rights of labors started in the 19th century when in the Europe agricultural jobs declined and employment moved towards the industrial areas. Groups such as the Tolpuddle Martyrs of Dorset were punished and transported for forming unions, which was against…
Faisal Mahmud/Asia Times The Jatiya Party’s post-election about-turn to lead the parliamentary opposition against its ally the Awami League has stoked fresh controversy Bangladesh is experiencing the strange problem of finding a parliamentary opposition deemed to be suitable and acceptable, after the latest national elections were completed on December 30. Bangladesh is one of the…
Jill Nicole Filipovic, Attorney and author/Gulf News Theirs is a collaborative, generational effort to move towards the good of society At the end of this month, Nancy Pelosi will retake her position on the podium behind the US president as he gives his State of the Union address. As speaker of a House that is…
DOT Desk: Students and teachers of the music Department, and invited singers from India and Sri Lanka will perform at the festival, reports The Dhaka Tribune. A two-day long music festival will be held at University of Dhaka’s Teacher-Student Centre on January 27-28. The DU music department organizes the festival as part of its regular…
DOT Desk: Triple-cropped land areas have almost doubled in the country in the last 17 years, signifying a vibrant agricultural production scenario, reports The Financial Express. Entry of the private sector in developing and selling various hybrid seeds has largely contributed to the rise in share of such lands, said experts. Triple-cropped farms means lands…
UNB: A move is underway to install pre-paid metres for electricity consumers in Cumilla and Mymensigh regions as part of the government’s plan to gradually replace all the post-paid electricity metres. According to official sources at the Power Division, state-owned Power Development Board (PDB), which is responsible for power distribution system in Cumilla and Mymensingh…
DOT Desk: The house of a journalist at Narsingshar village under Natai Dakkhin union in Sadar upazila was ravaged for two consecutive times allegedly by the local union parishad (UP) chairman and his men over previous enmity, reports The Daily Star. The goons first attacked the house of journalist Shamim-un-Bashir on Sunday evening and then…