Daniel Sullivan/Fair Observer Bangladesh and the UN must continue to work together to improve the conditions for nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees. The year 2018 was a dire and desperate year for the Rohingya minority from western Myanmar. Two-thirds of the population that had been living in western Rakhine State before the end of 2017…
Suraj Yengde Postdoctoral fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy/ Aljazeera The future of the untouchables’ struggle lies in international solidarity and collective work. Being a Dalit means being in permanent isolation, stuck in the dark chambers of one’s uncharted fears. The Dalit is that stubbornness that the Hindu ideology has…
DOT Desk: Ahsan Habib earned acclaim as a poet in the 1940s, reports The Daily Observer. He was an urban poet through and through — both in terms of language and sensibility. His poems reflect the social reality of his times, relationships, and focus on the concerns of the middle class. The poet was born…
DOT Desk: Some 85,924 hectares of land have been brought under the farming of varieties of Rabi crops in all the four districts of Sylhet division, reports The Financial Express. Of the total area, highest 55,541 hectares are of vegetables of all kinds. Bottle gourd, sweet gourd, radish, bean, tomato, cucumber, red spinach, pumpkin, cauliflower,…
DOT Desk: Gold prices have gone up by Tk. 1,517 for each ‘bhori’ in the local market from yesterday due to rising bullion prices in the international market in recent weeks, reports The Independent. The new prices became effective from yesterday (Wednesday), according to the Bangladesh Jewellers Samiti. The Bangladesh Jewellers Samity announced the new…
Monirul Alam of DOT Bangladesh fetched $20.499 billion from merchandise exports in last six months of current fiscal year. Exports Promotion Bureau (EPB) said the country saw a growth of 14.42 % in export earnings in from July to December of the FY 2018-19, against $ 17.9 billion over the same period a year ago….
Monirul Alam of DOT A consortium of three companies, one from China and two others from Bangladesh, has been engaged for the 48-km Dhaka Bypass Expressway project under the PPP (Public Private Partnership) module. Asian Development Bank (ADB) will act as the financial advisor to the transaction required for the project. The development was confirmed…
AFP: A record held by a Frenchwoman as the world’s longest living person could be fraudulent and involve an identity swap, Russian researchers have claimed in a report that has sparked widespread controversy. Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122 years and 164 days in 1997, setting a record as the world’s most long-lived…
Jenny Potter, 36, lives in Palatine and is a creative producer at a nondenominational church in suburban Chicago/Chicago Tribune My parents raised me in a conservative evangelical family in suburban Palatine. When I turned 18 they gave me a list of candidates to vote for — all Republicans — and I dutifully followed their instructions….
Arafat Hasan of DOT : The newly-elected parliament members will be sworn in today at 11am; furthermore, the new cabinet may also take oath on Sunday, as revealed by several ministers, reported The Daily Star. Talking to reporters during a dialogue with Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters Forum, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu revealed that the government…