Hossen Sohel of DOT Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday asked the election officials to take lessons from the polls-time mistakes and be prepared for the upcoming upazila elections, reports The Daily Star. The CEC asked the concerned officials to identify the mistakes of using the electronic voting machines (EVM) in the 2018 Jatiya Sangsad…
DOT Desk: Among foreign workers, highest number of Bangladeshis were legalized in the United Arab Emirates, foreign ministry officials, reports The New Age. Out of 1,00,000 expatriates who were legalized during a recent amnesty, 60,000 were Bangladeshis, foreign office director general Md Nazrul Islam told New Age on the sidelines of a Sensitization Workshop on…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Rapid Action Battalion is set to start an “undercover operation” all across the country to prevent question paper leak ahead of the upcoming SSC examinations scheduled to begin on February 2, reports The Daily Star. The elite force members have already scaled up their cyber monitoring and patrolling to prevent question…
Priyamvada Grover/The Print Bangladesh has come a long way since its independence in 1971, registering impressive performance on economic and social indicators. India, the fastest growing major economy, is seen as the powerhouse of South Asia, but this may soon change. Having already stolen a march over India on key social indices, small neighbour Bangladesh…
DOT Desk: A group of local young people went on demonstration in front of Cox’s Bazar deputy commissioner’s office seeking administrative initiatives for securing their jobs, reports The New Age. Participants shout ‘want jobs, want rights’ slogans during the demonstration, which was organised by local NGOs. Ukhiya Odikar Bastabayan Parishad convener Safique Azad presided over…
UNB: Jute-made products are turning heads at the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF). Pavilions showcasing them are attracting people, from the young to the old, with their colourful designs and diversity. The array of products includes bags, purses, folders, tablemats, prayer mats, doormats, rugs, and room dividers, among others. The huge, albeit unanticipated, number of…
The Guardian, UK: Spice Girls T-shirts sold to raise money for Comic Relief’s “gender justice” campaign were made at a factory in Bangladesh where women earn the equivalent of 35p an hour during shifts in which they claim to be verbally abused and harassed, a Guardian investigation has found. The charity tops, bearing the message…
Reuters: Italy seized almost 650 kg (1,400 lb) of cocaine in the northwestern port of Livorno earlier this month, police said on Wednesday, more than double the entire amount seized there last year. The street value of the cocaine found, which was discovered on Jan. 15 stuffed into 23 large duffle bags, is 130…
Science Alert: Climate change is pulling back the curtain and exposing an Arctic landscape not seen by the Sun in 40,000 years or more. Baffin Island is a rocky, frozen wonderland, located in the Arctic circle between Greenland and the northern coast of Canada. With its deep fjords and ancient glaciers, it’s the perfect place…
Abdi Latif Dahir/QUARTZ Leila Ali Elmi’s childhood was an exercise in the future awaiting her in politics. At age two, she arrived in Sweden along with her family after fleeing the civil war in her homeland Somalia. For the next 29 years, she lived and worked in the Angered suburb in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second-biggest city….