France24: Extreme poverty in Latin America hit its highest level for nine years in 2017, according to a report by the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published on Tuesday. Poverty remained stable at 30.2 percent of the population — 184 million people — but extreme poverty increased from 9.9 percent…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : More heads of state and government, including the Ghanaian president and the Cambodian prime minister, have extended their heartfelt congratulations to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her reappointment as the prime minister for the third straight time, reports BSS. Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in his congratulatory message, yesterday…
Afsan Chowdhury speaks to DOT : Amanullah Kabir was a non-partisan journalist. It is a huge achievement for him. His journalistic career spanned four decades and remained active with all political movements. He was a left leaning person but he was never dogmatic. He was associated with Mawlana Bhasani. Later on, he waged movement for…
Tulip Siddiq : “Thank you all for supportive messages. My decision to delay my baby’s birth is not one I take lightly. Let me be clear, I have no faith in the pairing system — in July the Govt stole the vote of a new mother. It’s my duty to represent Hampstead & Kilburn, and…
Hindustan Times: Jadavpur University professor Kanak Sarkar who had made controversial remarks in a Facebook post has been divested of his duties with immediate effect, according a notice issued by the Department of International Relations of the university. As students and teachers of Jadavpur University (JU) and a large section of people across Bengal fumed…
Ambassado Muhammad Zamir writes for DOT : Like many other developing countries, Bangladesh is dependent on the remittance inflow that we receive from our expatriate workers. This helps us not only to meet our balance of trade deficit but also to add to our foreign exchange reserve. At this point of time we have nearly…
Mahmudur Rahman writes for DOT : The choking pollution that Dhaka faced a decade and a half ago was due largely to the the two-stroke baby-taxis as well as bulk of vehicles using petrol with dubious exhaust systems. Conversion to Compressed Natural Gas led to the baby taxi becoming a CNG forever and made a…
Anadolu Agency: A Palestinian-American Muslim congresswoman Rashida Tlaib blasted on Tuesday Florida city commissioner’s Islamophobic message. In a Jan. 8 Facebook post, Anabelle Lima-Taub, a commissioner in Hallandale Beach, compared Tlaib to a suicide bomber, who will blow up herself one day. “A Hamas-loving anti-Semite has NO place in government! She is a danger and…
Banglanews24: Eight garment factory owners filed separate cases against 1299 RMG workers for vandalism and looting during the recent strike in Savar and Ashulia. So far, police arrested 25 workers from these two aforementioned places. Six factory owners, under Ashulia police station, filed six cases accusing 881 persons, of them 196 are identified while 685…
Sun Daily: International Criminal Court prosecutors said Wednesday they would appeal against the shock acquittal of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo and urged judges to bar him from returning to his homeland. Judges cleared Gbagbo and his right-hand man Charles Ble Goude on Tuesday of charges of crimes against humanity over a wave of…