Hindustan Times: Business tycoon Vijay Mallya has been named as a ‘fugitive economic offender’ by a Mumbai court, the first person to be hit by a new law that empowers the government to seize properties of individuals who flee the country to escape prosecution. This is Mallya’s second setback in the last one month. In…
Anadolu Agency: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he owns no real estate, vehicles or personal property, echoing what experts say is a pattern among the country’s politicians of shifting assets to relatives. Lopez Obrador, who took office in December, told a regular news conference his family’s cars and home are in…
Xinhua: Beijing’s new international airport is expected to handle 45 million passengers annually by 2021 and 72 million by 2025, according to the country’s civil aviation regulator. Beijing Daxing International Airport, set to start operation this year, is designed to become “a large international aviation hub, a new driver of development for the country and…
Dr. Zeenat Huda speaks to DOT : We need a cabinet that is made up of a diverse mixture of veterans, amateurs and women. We want a dynamic cabinet that will bolster Sheikh Hasina. They have to ensure that the trust and confidence that the people confided with the Awami League through their votes is…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : A group linked to Yellow Vests wrote an open letter to French president Emmanuel Macron, warning him against treating people like beggars, rejecting his nationwide debate, and demanding a major tax reduction. The missive was posted in the Angry France group on Facebook, which unites almost 300,000 supporters of the…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT : Margaret Atwood, a Canadian poet and novelist said – Men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them. Torture is an extreme behavior of a person. It is the act of deliberately inflicting severe physical or psychological suffering on someone…
Prof Dr Tajul Islam speaks to DOT : People commit most hideous act like rape in a bid to show their personal power. There are different types of power; physical, political and financial. Whenever a person realizes that he possesses much power then he commits such heinous act. We see that the victims of rape…
Hossen Sohel of DOT: A Jatiya Oikya Front delegation led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir met the Subarnachar gang-rape victim at Noakhali General Hospital yesterday, reports New Age. BNP vice-chairman Mohammad Shahjahan, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal president ASM Abdur Rab, Krishak Sramik Janata League president Abdul Kader Siddique, BNP joint secretary…
Ali Riaz Since 30 December 2018 several analysts around the globe have examined the results of the election and its implications for the Bangladeshi politics. These analyses have been published in various newspapers and web portals. The primary focus of these pieces is the future of Bangladesh, particularly the future of democracy. It is not…
Afsan Chowdhury speaks to DOT : The people cannot say how the next Cabinet Division is going to be since the government does inform them whatever it does. The countrymen will demand a different kind of cabinet, which the government will prefer to be of another kind. So, what is the point of talking about…