Afsan Chowdhury speaks to DOT : Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) can demand re-election while Awami League can dismiss it. According to the government, the 11th parliamentary elections were held in a free and fair manner. Therefore, there is no question of re-election. Now let us wait and see which way the wind blows. This is…
The Guardian, UK: After McDonald’s lost its Big Mac trademark in the EU earlier this month, competitor Burger King wasted no time taking a big, juicy bite out of the world’s biggest burger chain. Burger King’s Swedish operation recently revamped its menus to poke fun at McDonald’s loss. Under the header Not Big Mac’s (sic),…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Four militants arrested in Uttara were planning to murder a newspaper editor, the Rapid Action Battalion has said. The suspected members of banned Ansarullah Bangla Team were caught by the elite police unit during a raid at the suburb area yesterday, reports bdnews24.com. The details were provided in a briefing at…
BBC: A former South Korean governor and one-time presidential contender has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for rape, five months after he was controversially acquitted for the same crime. Ahn Hee-jung was jailed by an appeals court Friday for the rape and assault of Kim Ji-eun, his former assistant, Kim’s…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : An Indian Air Force Mirage-2000 trainer aircraft crashed in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru yesterday immediately after taking off, killing both pilots, Reuters reports. The plane crashed at the edge of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) airport compound, which is surrounded by several office and residential buildings, according to…
Abrar Hussain of DOT This year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations are scheduled to begin across the country today. A total of 2,135,333 students, which include 1,070,441 boys and 1,064,892 girls, are expected to appear at the examinations from 28,682 institutions in 3,497 centers. Among them, 1,700,102 candidates will sit for the SSC…
Idaho Statesman: Iran on Friday kicked off days-long celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah, overturned 2,500 years of monarchical rule and brought hard-line Shiite clerics to power. The climactic events that year in Iran — where footage of revolutionaries in the streets gave way to…
AFP: Three Americans hailed as heroes for thwarting a jihadist attack on a train between Amsterdam and Paris were officially welcomed as French citizens on Thursday in a ceremony in the US state of California. Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, all aged 26, “risked their lives for the values of the republic,” Emmanuel…
Saleem Samad of DOT The global rights alliance for garments workers of Bangladesh has invited uproar among expat Bangladesh nationals in Europe and North America. The global movement was spearheaded by an Amsterdam, The Netherlands based Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), a global alliance dedicated to improving working conditions of factory workers, calls for living wages,…
DOT Desk: Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members have detained two persons from Gazipur for their alleged involvement in leaking question papers of different public examinations, reports The Daily Star. The detainees are: Md Rafiqul Islam, 25, a fourth-year honours student of Bhawal Badre Alam Government College and also director of a coaching centre, and Md…