Simon Jenkins, Guardian columnist/Gulf News For all his antics on the Mexican border, Trump’s Syria troop withdrawal plan is salutary For a Briton to spend time in the US just now is a blessed relief. Whole days pass, and no talk of Brexit. It is as if a pall has lifted from the art of…
Arafat Hasan of DOT A Dhaka court sentenced Barrister Nazmul Huda to jail yesterday after he surrendered in a bribery case involving Tk 2.4 crore, reports The Daily Star. The former BNP minister surrendered before Dhaka Special Judge Court-2 around 12:30pm, after which the court delivered its sentence. On November 18 of last year, the…
Desk Report: Bangladesh has emerged as the fifth largest wheat importer in the world, with its import of the grain increasing by 36 per cent over the past five years, according to a report of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), reports Prothom Alo. Among the fastest growing importing countries, Bangladesh imported 5.5…
DOT Desk: Veterinary scientists and researchers in Rajshahi on Friday urged service providers to take livestock related necessary services to the grassroots growers for boosting animal resources, particularly cattle and goat farming, reports The New Age. They viewed that necessary services like production, primary treatment, deworming, vaccination and farm management should be given priority to…
David Cowan, Lecturer, The University of Queensland/The Conversation, Australia Your phone chimes, it’s a message from your partner. You reply instantly because that’s what you always do.Then you decide to add another message: “By the way, I love you ” You see the “read” status appear under the message, and you wait for her reply….
DOT Desk: Sarojganj Bazar, the country’s largest date molasses market in Chuadanga district, is abuzz with huge buyers along with the dip in mercury, reports The Financial Express. Buyers from across the country are crowding Sarojganj Bazar on Fridays and Mondays as the molasses of this region are said to be the best in flavour…
Geo TV: Women in Saudi Arabia will now be notified about their divorce via text messages. Starting yesterday, courts will be required to notify women by text on rulings confirming their divorces. “The new measure ensures women get their [alimony] rights when they’re divorced,” Saudi lawyer Nisreen al-Ghamdi told Bloomberg. “It also ensures that any…
DOT Desk: Shohag Chowdhury was admitted to the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with injuries sustained from a road accident last month. There, he was prescribed a number of blood tests, ultrasound and an X-ray by a doctor, reports The Daily Star. Despite being in a critical condition, the 35-year-old had to…
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri/QUARTZ The unrelenting obsession with fair skin in India has been a subject of discussion for years. It has inspired campaigns, such Dark is Beautiful and #BinTheTube, which encouraged women to discard their fairness creams. And yet, the tendency to see fair people on television and in films, and to uphold them as…
DOT Desk: Growth in transaction through mobile financial services slowed down in 2018 despite significant growth in active MFS accounts, reports The New Age. As per the latest central bank data, daily average transaction through mobile financial services grew by 7.17 per cent in November 2018 compared with the daily average transaction in January of…