Afsan Chowdhury, Journalist and researcher/ The New Age WHILE the Awami League is celebrating and the BNP is groaning as a result of the 2018 elections and the radically one-sided results, other emotions and anxieties are noticed in the region relating to the elections. The west is concerned about the shrinkage of political space, which…
The Local, France: France is speeding up preparations for a “no deal” Brexit after the British parliament overwhelmingly rejected the agreement on the table, a French presidential source said yesterday. “The scenario we don’t want is a no deal and the risks multiplied yesterday,” the source said. “The prime minister will meet tomorrow with the…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT In a significant development, police on Tuesday night arrested the main suspect from Tongi in Gazipur district in a case filed over the murders of LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tanoy in 2016, reports UNB. Assadullah, the arrestee, was caught during a raid by the counter-terror police…
Yuming Fang/Medium Superior health care and future educational opportunities have women traveling from abroad to give birth in the U.S. Wearing pink pajamas and gray plastic sandals, Jenny Qin relaxes on a couch and watches short videos on her iPhone. She’s in a spacious Rancho Cucamonga, California, residence used as a maternity hotel for Chinese…
Mohammad Ayesh/ Middle East Monitor The idea that confronting Iran requires normalisation and an alliance with Israel is purely Israeli in origin and only serves the agenda of the occupation state, which invests all events in the region and, indeed, around the world, with its own best interests. Israel’s most recent success in this regard…
UNB: President of Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)Lee Mi-kyungarrives here on January 20 on a four-day visit to discuss development cooperation between Bangladesh and South Korea through KOICA and visit Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. She will lead a six-member high-level delegation, said an official on Wednesday. It will be the first-ever visit of KOICA’s…
The Chinese New Year cultural performance will open at the Bangladesh national theater on January 17. The event will be hosted by the Embassy of People’s Republic of China in Bangladesh and co-organized by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh-China Friendship Centre and the culture and tourism department of China’s Yunnan province. Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Mr….
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) says it surveyed 50 parliamentary constituencis during elections and found irregularities in 47 of them, reports The Daily Star. Irregularities were witnessed in at least one or multiple voting centres across those constituencies, TIB said in a report presented yesterday. Shahjada M Akram, senior programme manager…
BBC: A Saudi teenager given asylum in Canada after fleeing her family has said the journey was “worth the risk” so she could live a more independent life. Rahaf Mohammed, 18, made headlines when she flew to Thailand and barricaded herself in a hotel while appealing on Twitter for help to avoid deportation. She said…
DOT Desk: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said his party will take part in the upcoming upazila elections under the party banner, reports The Daily Star “We will not take part in the elections as a part of any alliance. Awami League will contest the upazila elections under the party banner with boat…