Maj Gen (retd) Abdur Rashid speaks to DOT : The government’s zero tolerance policy against corruption will come successful based on the application of the process. Graft is a social and national illness. So, there has to be legal action in order to reduce anomalies. Moreover, the people also need to be made aware of…
Shreya Dasgupta /Monga Bay *A researcher-illustrator team has traced the emotional and personal links of two of India’s indigenous tribes to what is now a protected area via their memories. *By interviewing more than 200 community members, most of them from the Bugun and Shertukpen tribes living near Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh state,…
Leah Ranney, Director of Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/ChannelNewsAsia While traditional cigarette smoking habits among youth and young adults in the US are declining, the use of e-cigarettes appeals strongly to this age group, says one observer.An upsurge in e-cigarette use among middle and high school students…
BBC: Activists in Russia say there has been a new crackdown against LGBT people in Chechnya. The Russian LGBT Network believes about 40 people have been imprisoned since December – two of whom they say have died under torture. The group has been monitoring alleged abuses in the mainly Muslim Russian republic since 2017 when…
Banglanews24: A man and his son died after being electrocuted in Falahari village under Kabirhat upazila. The deceased are Salauddin, 48, son of Ali Ahmed, residents of Padua village and his son Sourav Hossain, 12, class VII student of a local high school.Locals said the duo came in contact with a live electric wire when…
Reuters: Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday accused the European Central Bank of attacking Italy’s banking system, saying its request for local lenders to put aside more money to cover impaired loans could cost 15 billion euros. Salvini, who heads the far-right League, said in a statement that the ECB move showed that the…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT At least five people were killed and four others injured when a microbus lost control and crashed into a roadside tree in Brahmanbaria yesterday afternoon. The deceased are Apu, 33, his wife Jhumur, 20, Parash, 32, Rijon, 31, and Hasan Jaman, 32. All of them were residents of Dhaka’s Khilgaon area….
Shayera Dark, Freelance writer based in Lagos/ My Republica Anywhere in the world, freelance journalism is an extreme career choice. The job requires withstanding pitch rejections, ignored queries, stolen story ideas, and delayed payments. It means reconciling oneself with the economic precarity that comes with having little or no leverage in pay negotiations. But for…
Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO/Thrive Global Smart offices, smart homes, AI for good, screen-stingy tech execs and Valley of the Boom. • We hear a lot about the growing competition for smarter workers, but Reuters reports on one way that some companies are responding: by building smart offices. These are workplaces wired for efficiency, productivity…
DOT Desk: The overabundance of fast fashion — readily available, inexpensively made clothing — has created an environmental and social justice crisis, a study claims, reports The Daily Sun. Globally, 80 billion pieces of new clothing are purchased each year, translating to USD 1.2 trillion annually for the fashion industry, according to the study published…