Peter Beinart/The Atlantic Donald Trump’s ideological cousins around the world want to reverse the feminist gains of recent decades. When americans look abroad these days, they see Donald Trumps everywhere: In Brazil, whose new president, Jair Bolsonaro, endorses torture, threatens to pull out of the Paris climate-change agreement, and suggests that his country was better…
AFP: The leader of one of South Korea’s largest animal rights groups has been accused of secretly exterminating hundreds of rescued dogs – despite a declared no-kill policy – to ensure a continued stream of donations. South Korean attitudes on canines are divided – about one million dogs are eaten every year in the country,…
DOT Desk: The effort to digitalise Dhaka’s traffic by replacing the manual systems with electronic traffic signals is going in vain due to technical glitches in the signal lights and other equipment, reports The Daily Sun. Installed in 2004, the signal lights and other equipment were left dysfunction for years. Multiple glitches erupted within days…
BSS: The Election Commission will hold Upazila Parishad elections in five phases from first week of March. The commission secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed on Monday said schedule of the election will be announced in the first week of February. In first four phases, elections to most of upazila parishads will be held and in…
DOT Desk: The telecom regulator is set to introduce a registration process for all mobile handsets in the country with a view to mitigating the challenges of illegal import, theft, cloning, organised crimes and health hazard, reports The Daily Star. The mobile operators themselves will register the handsets that are in use in its network,…
DOT Desk: DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to award jail terms along with fines for those found guilty of food adulteration, reports The Dhaka Tribune. During an anti-adulteration drive on Sunday, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) fined popular restaurants Star Kabab’s Dhanmondi branch Tk5,000, Sultan’s Dine in the Satmasjid Road…
Monirul Alam of DOT : The government has raised wages for the Ready Made Garment (RMG) workers yesterday aiming to put an end to an impasse that triggered from ongoing agitation against discriminatory hike in salaries and owners’ warning to shut down industries. Labour Secretary Afroza Khan made the announcement of revised wage structures at…
BBC: A failure to deliver Brexit would be “a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy”, Prime Minister Theresa May has warned. Writing in the Sunday Express, Mrs May pleaded with MPs to back her Brexit deal in Tuesday’s crunch Commons vote. Not doing so risks the UK leaving the EU with no…
Reuters: An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family this week saying she feared for her life arrived in Toronto’s international airport on Saturday after being granted asylum in Canada, where Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland welcomed her as a brave new Canadian. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun grabbed international attention this week after she barricaded herself in…
CNN: Jamal Khashoggi probably thought the messages he was sending to fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz were hidden, cloaked in WhatsApp security. In reality they were compromised — along with the rest of Abdulaziz’s phone, which had allegedly been infected by Pegasus, a powerful piece of malware designed to spy on its users. Abdulaziz, as…