Afsan Chowdhury, Advisory editor in column/ Dhaka courier The most interesting battle in the 2018 elections was not between the AL and the BNP which turned out to be a no contest at all going by the results. It was between two TV station and their owners who were part of the electoral war from…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Jatiya Party Chairman and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament HM Ershad is again going to Singapore today for medical checkup, UNB reports. Ershad along with his younger brother Hossain Morshed, his wife Roksana Khan Moreshed and party presidium member Major (retd) Khaled Akhter will leave the capital at 12:40 pm…
Arab News: The concerns of the people of Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Yemen were the main topic of the opening session of a meeting of Arab ministers held in preparation for the Arab development summit on Sunday in Beirut. The meeting in the Lebanese capital’s Phoenicia Hotel saw unprecedented security measures covering a large…
M Ziauddin/ The Express Tribune It is time to ask what is the future of ethical journalism in an age when it appears that the public around the world is falling out with facts, humanity and accountable truth-telling.Ethics in the News, a report compiled by the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN), has thrown some light on…
DOT Desk: The flash floods of 2017 caused massive devastation in the haor areas of the country. A study has revealed that the residents of six haor districts faced agricultural and health-related losses of around Tk 29.42 billion following early flash floods in March and April 2017. In April 2017, the former water resources minister…
BBC: The wife of Meng Hongwei, the Interpol president held in China since September, has sought asylum in France for herself and her twin children. Grace Meng and the seven-year-olds live in Lyon, the international police agency’s headquarters. Meng Hongwei disappeared during a visit to China. In October the Chinese authorities said Mr Meng was…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has initiated a move to adopt latest version of IP (internet protocol) addressing system that would allow the regulatory body along with other government agencies to monitor internet users more accurately, said BTRC officials, reports The New Age. Scarcity of IP addresses under the existing version of IP addressing…
continues for 5th day NTV Online: The rescue operation for the 20 workers, who went missing after a soil-laden trawler capsized in the Meghna River in Munshiganj on Tuesday, has rolled into the 5th consecutive day as the trawler remains still traceless. Two teams started the rescue operation around 8:00am Saturday and they are trying…
BSS: Speaker of Jatiya Sangshad Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury distributed blankets among 800 cold-stricken poor and distressed people of 15 unions in her constituency- Rangpur-6 (Pirganj). “The speaker distributed the blankets at a function arranged by the Pirganj upazila administration on the upazila parisahd premises.” Earlier, the district administration distributed more 5,000 pieces of blankets…
UNB: At least two people were killed and 15 others suffered injuries after a bus and a truck collided head-on on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Shoshi area of Bijaynagar upazila in Brahmanbaria. The deceased could not be identified yet. Hossain Sarker, officer-in-charge of highway police, said the accident took place when a Sylhet-bound bus of ‘London…