PTI: Eight people, including five members of a family, died due to suffocation in two incidents in northwest Pakistan, police said. The incidents happened at Abbotabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. Five members, including three children, of a family died at Bandi Dhondian village in Abbotabad after…
David I Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies Emeritus at Georgetown University/ Channel NewsAsia As the 2020 elections draws closer, there is no indication that parties in the country will change their attitudes towards the Rohingya crisis, says one observer. Myanmar’s year was framed by the horrific residues of 2017 — the flight from death…
DOT Desk: The kitchen market monitoring activities are seriously being hampered as required number of law enforcers are not available for conducting drives against irregularities committed by traders, officials said, reports The Financial Express. The officials and market analysts blame it on the lack of coordination between the monitoring authority and law enforcers, but it…
DOT Desk: Prominent actor Apurba is set to star in the TV serial, Shesh Bhalo Jaye, produced by Bangladesh Television (BTV) and directed by Rakesh Basu, reports The Dailt Star. Starting off his career as a model, Apurba has been active in the fields of television and cinema for more than a decade, with many…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A Cumilla court yesterday adjourned hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and a bail petition submitted by her in a murder case lodged against her in 2015, reports The Daily Star. Judge Habibur Rahman, who is now performing the duties as District and Sessions Judge, fixed January 16…
Tech Explorist: The Cordillera del Cóndor between Ecuador and Peru is positively lush with life, but due to the mountain range’s inaccessibility and decades of border disputes, it’s only been in recent years that scientists have been able to get there to check it all out. They have been making absolutely amazing discoveries – the…
Rajdeep Sardesai, Senior journalist and author/ Hindustan Times The Congress needs to erase the perception of being a party in terminal decline in the next two months to offer a realistic nationwide challenge to the Modi-led BJP in 2019 For four years and a bit, every time there has been a major state election, the…
DOT Desk: A new service to help consumers get exact weight of goods purchased in the kitchen markets will be launched at the end of this month, an official said, reports Financial Express. The service, called ‘Ojon Bondhu’ (Friend for weighing), is an initiative of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) to make…
JnU Correspondent: Recently Chairman of the Department of Psychology Prof Dr Ashok Kumar Saha attended in the symposium titled ‘The IAAP Centennial (1920-2020) Symposium: Hundred Years of Applied Psychology in South Asia: Retrospect and Prospect’ in Delhi University. On this occasion, he meets with Jagannath University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mijanur Rahman with a courtesy call…
Reuters: Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 100 soldiers over suspected links to the network of the US-based Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating a failed coup in 2016, state-owned media said yesterday. The detentions were the result of investigations into pay phone communications between alleged members of cleric Fethullah Gulen’s network, Anadolu reported. It said…