Hossen Sohel of DOT : The body of Public Administration Minister and former general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) Syed Ashraful Islam, MP, will be brought home around 6pm today. Syed Ashraful Islam died at a hospital in Bangkok on Thursday. He was 68. Ashraful Islam who had been suffering from lung cancer for…
James M Dorsey/WION Traditionally focussed on ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim Islam, Saudi funding in the era of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been streamlined and finetuned to ensure that it serves his geopolitical ambitions, primarily stymying the expansion of Iranian influence in the Middle East and North Africa and enhancing the kingdom’s global impact. The…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Awami General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP’s decision not to take oath was the repetition of its mistake. ‘BNP made a mistake in 2014 by boycotting the general election. Yesterday, the party made another mistake by taking the decision not to take oath as members of parliament,’ Quader said, reports…
DOT Desk: People of the city are facing drinking water crisis as the underground water level here is gradually decreasing, reports The Daily Observer. Many deep tube-wells in the city are damaged. As a result, the crisis of pure drinking water in the city has become acute. Source said, to set up a tube-well in…
DOT Desk: Hundreds of children have been affected by the illness, reports The Independent. A diarrhea epidemic has become widespread in the Shailkupa upazila of Jhenaidah district. At least 200 children, from different regions of the upazila, have received treatment for diarrhea, in the Shailkupa Hospital, over the last 32 days. According to hospital sources,…
Bryce Edwards/NZherald.co.nz A huge impact on the year in politics Although no one dubbed Ross the “politician of the year”, he was certainly acknowledged as the top newsmaker of the year, for plunging New Zealand politics – or at least the National Party – into chaos and bewilderment. Newshub political editor Tova O’Brien named Ross…
Science Alert: On Dec. 22 at 9:03 pm local time, a 64-hectare (158-acre) chunk of Anak Krakatau volcano, in Indonesia, slid into the ocean following an eruption. This landslide created a tsunami that struck coastal regions in Java and Sumatra, killing at least 426 people and injuring 7,202. Satellite data and helicopter footage taken on…
UNB: Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, has long been witnessing an abnormal shift in its traditional six seasons due to changes in temperature, wind-flow and rainfall patterns, threatening the country’s future food security, according to local environment and weather experts. They also said frequent natural disasters like flashfloods, cyclones,…
DOT Desk: The number of prisoners as of January 4, 2019 stood at 98,480, according to the Prisons Directorate under the Ministry of Home Affairs, reports The Financial Express. Of the prisoners, 16,124 are convicts and the rest 82,356 are facing trial. The number of female inmates is only 3,207. There are 68 jails all…
AFP: An Australian man rammed his four-wheel drive into a Sydney police car, hijacked a supermarket delivery truck and taxi, rammed other cars and stabbed and wounded a passerby before killing himself in front of police on Friday. The dramatic chain of events, which police said was not terror-related, began when police tried to…