South China Morning Post: US President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and are among possible US candidates to replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, according to a report on Friday. Kim abruptly announced Monday he was cutting short his tenure as the bank’s president more…
DOT Desk: BDNP Chairrson Khaleda Zia today said the opposition can be from out of the parliament if the party works for the benefit of the people, reports The Daily Star. She made the remarks at the makeshift court set up inside Old Dhaka Central Jail during a hearing on the Niko graft case. During today’s…
BBC: A lack of accurate maps is a big problem in parts of Africa: for disaster relief agencies, local authorities and people looking for safe places to build homes. Could cheap survey drones and local volunteers help plug the gaps? Khadija Abdulla Ali is an unlikely drone pilot in the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar. Conservatively…
DOT Desk: eiterating her government’s firm stance against corruption, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government will continue its fight against graft to keep up the country’s development spree and uphold its achievements, reports The Daily Star. “Though it’s not possible for any country to root out hundred percent corruption, it’s a responsibility of our…
Hindustan Times: The government will construct 44strategic roads along the border with China and over 2,100 km of axial and lateral roads in Punjab and Rajasthan, abutting Pakistan, a CPWD document shows. According to an annual report (2018-19) released earlier this month by the Central Public Works Department, the agency has been asked to construct…
A.S.M Riad Arif writes for DOT : It was Simon John Dring, an award-winning British Journalist and the correspondent of The Daily Telegraph in 1971 during the Liberation War in Bangladesh. Before the Pakistan Military started the brutal Genocide they sent a letter to the foreign journalists to leave Dhaka immediately. But Simon hid at…
Reuters: Indonesia’s health ministry has sought to reassure HIV patients that sufficient antiretroviral (ARV) drugs will be available for their treatment after some hospitals had run out of supplies. At least 29 hospitals and health centers in Indonesia had exhausted their stocks of a particular type of ARV, known as a fixed-dose combination of Tenofovir,…
Rasheda K Chowdhury speaks to DOT : According to statistics, female students outnumber males at a primary level. What if someone said we should send these women and girls from schools, colleges and universities to their homes without delay? What if someone said sending them to educational institutes means they’ll be unveiled? They’ll disobey the…
Times of Israel: Assailing President Donald Trump for “a crisis of leadership,” former Obama cabinet member Julian Castro joined the 2020 presidential race Saturday as the rush of Democrats making early moves to challenge the incumbent accelerates, while anticipation grows around bigger names still considering a White House run. Castro, who could end up being…
Russia Today: Hamas is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can reveal the identities of Israeli commandos who took part in a failed operation in Gaza that sparked an intense cross-border fire fight between Palestinians and the IDF. Following months of preparation for their mission, fifteen members of the Israeli Sayeret Matkal special forces…