Arab News: Nissan Motor Co. Ltd’s ousted Chairman Carlos Ghosn declared he was innocent on Tuesday in his first public appearance since his arrest in November, telling a Tokyo court that he was wrongly accused of financial misconduct. “I have been wrongly accused and unfairly detained based on meritless and unsubstantiated accusations,” he told the…
BBC: World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim has made the surprise announcement that he is stepping down after six years in the post. His resignation will take effect from 1 February. Mr Kim, 59, was not due to leave until 2022, after he was re-elected for a second five-year term in 2017. He will “join…
Reuters: The father of an 18-year-old Saudi woman asylum seeker who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her, has arrived in Bangkok and wants to meet his daughter, Thailand’s immigration chief said yesterday. But Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun’s father and brother would have to wait and see whether the UN refugee agency…
Prof Anu Muhammadspeaks to DOT : It is not possible for Awami League to declare zero tolerance against corruption. Because, the AL-led government has been in power for the last one decade. There has been unprecedented corruption in all development projects including banking sector under this government. Corruption has taken a new dimension under the…
Syed Badrul Ahsan writes for DOT : On the evening of 8 January 1972, the news on the BBC World Service was unmistakable: “The East Bengali political leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has arrived in London.’ Two days later, a jetliner of Britain’s Royal Air Force landed at Tejgaon airport. Moments later, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Syed Abul Hannan, a 1952 Language Movement veteran and a Freedom Fighter, died from old age complications at a private hospital in the capital early yesterday, reports The Daily Sun. He was 87. Abdul Hannan, also former principal of Sherpur Government College, breathed his last at City Hospital around 4:40…
Md. Fakrul Islam Chowdhury of DOT : On January 3, 2019, The House SpeakerNancy Pelosi swore in RashidaTlaib, using the Quran instead of a Bible during the 116th Congress swearing in ceremony. Tlaib, one of the first two women from Muslim origin to be elected in the Congress, however, recently tweeted to correct the widely…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Saudi Arabia deported at least 13 Rohingya, held indefinitely by the kingdom, from a Jeddah detention centre early yesterday, reports The Daily Star. Abdur Rahman, additional superintendent of police of the Armed Police Battalion at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, said the Rohingyas arrived in Dhaka around 2:00am. “They have admitted…
Eurek Alert: A stop sign at an intersection appears to be larger than a parked car across the street. Is our brain playing tricks on us? Researchers at the George Washington University gained important insights into how the human brain processes information and allocates attention. Their study, “Attention Scales According to Inferred Real-World Object Size,”…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman yesterday on the occasion of the installation of her government for the third consecutive term, reports BSS. Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to Bangabandhu by placing a wreath at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Bhaban at…