Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel, who is given the charge after being election for the first time as a lawmaker, said Hefajat-e Islam chief Shah Ahmed Shafi made his own remarks on girls’ education. While exchanging views with journalists yesterday morning, Nowfel said, “It is his (Shafi) personal…
Marc Thiessen/The New York Post Barring some miraculous breakthrough, on Saturday the current government shutdown will become the longest in American history. But it has already hit another historic milestone: It is, by far and away, the stupidest government shutdown in American history.In 2019, the federal government will spend a whopping $4.407 trillion. Yet Congress…
David Ignatius, Columnist/ The Washington Post One hundred days after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pressing ahead with anti-dissident campaigns and remains in regular contact with Saud al-Qahtani, the media adviser whom the CIA believes helped organize Khashoggi’s killing, according to U.S. and Saudi sources. The Saudi crown…
James Dobbins, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in diplomacy and security at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, a former assistant Secretary of State & author/BDnews24 The Trump administration has begun to roll back the president’s announced pullout from Syria. On Dec 19 Trump said Islamic State had been defeated; his officials now acknowledge not entirely….
Satish Deshpande/Indian Express Being poor is different from belonging to lower castes, even though most poor belong to lower castes. If we set aside the most obvious objections to the proposal to provide 10 per cent reservation for the so-called “general category” — it is a cynical election stunt, will prove legally unsustainable, and does…
Azeezah Kanji/Aljazeera Recent examples of expatriation practices in the UK and Australia demonstrate a glaring anti-Muslim bias. In the name of “safeguarding” civilisation, the forces waging the “war on terror” have revived a form of punishment once described by the United States Supreme Court as “more primitive than torture”: the stripping of citizenship. Forced denationalisation…
BSS: Rangpur Metro-politan Police (RpMP) Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Alim Mahmud distributed blankets among a large number of cold-stricken distressed people of the city. Alim visited different areas around midnight and distributed the blankets from his own contribution among the cold-hit street beggars, distressed men, women and children, at several spots of the metropolis to mitigate…
DOT Desk: Rafiath Rashid Mithila stars in well known director Partha Sen’s short film, ‘Mukhomukhi’, opposite Kolkata actor Gaurav Chakraborty. The short film, which was released recently, revolves around a Bangladeshi filmmaker who travels to Kolkata for professional purposes and ends up befriending a man, reports The Daily Star. Mithila, who has proven herself with…
UNB: Dhaka University (DU) authorities on Thursday extended the deadline until January 14 for student organisations to submit recommendations for the amendment to the existing Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) constitution. Prof Dr Md Mizanur Rahman, chief of the five-member committee which was formed to take suggestions from the student organisationss, said this after…
DOT Desk: Hawkers are synonymous with the streets of Dhaka – in almost every corner of this city, one comes across hawkers peddling a range of goods, essential or otherwise, reports The Dhaka Tribune. In recent years, booksellers have also become a staple on our streets, bringing some much needed relief to those spending endless…