BDnews24: Ashiqur Rahman, a Bangladesh Civil Service officer who was previously the commander of Ansar Battalion 17 in Bandarban, went to the ACC’s Chattogram office on Thursday. He offered an official of the watchdog Tk 1,00,000, to clear his name of the allegations of corruption, according to ACC spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee. The ACC’s Assistant…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Minister Tajul Islam has said the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority have been swamped with irregularities and that will not be allowed to go on. “Dhaka and Chittagong Wasa have gone through extreme negligence and mismanagement,” he said. The minister was addressing a meeting…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has that the anti-adulteration drive will be strengthened and it will continue until the malpractice is stopped. The mayor was addressing an event organised to inaugurate an anti-adulteration drive at Bailey Road yesterday, reports UNB. He also directed all concerned to help make…
Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya speaks to DOT : According to UN’s report on World Economic Situation and Prospects, Bangladesh will be the third fastest growing economy in the world in terms of achieving high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2019. The report put Bangladesh only behind South Sudan and India. Bangladesh will expand at 7.4% this…
Ilias Kanchan speaks to DOT : Drivers, passengers and pedestrians must be made to obey the law – whether through law, intimidation or even through fines. No one in our country obeys unless there is supervision. This is why the public has to be brought under the law through the fear of the law. In…
Mahmudur Rahman writes for DOT : Bangladesh’s voters have made the choice of not electing a workable opposition in the eleventh parliament thereby denting one of democracy’s main arms. Effectively this means there will be no opposition to keep the treasury bench in some form of order. This was the norm in the last parliament…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT A UN official in Bangladesh has highlighted how a strong response capacity to disasters ties into longer-term needs by allowing countries to focus on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UN Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo was addressing the opening of the 4th annual session of Regional Consultative Group on Humanitarian Civil-Military…
Dr Maleka Banu speaks to DOT : We have talked to the concerned ministry about stopping torture on female migrant workers. We have also placed our recommendations in this regard. We have also talked to the High Commission for enhancing language proficiency and job training prior to sending them abroad. The female migrant workers should…
BBC: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has broken off relations with the US after it recognised opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim leader. Mr Maduro gave US diplomats 72 hours to leave the country but the US said the “former president” no longer had the authority to order them out. On Wednesday, Mr Guaidó had declared…
Md. Fakrul Islam Chowdhury wtites for DOT : The real challenges of the fourth industrial revolution lie in the impact on governments and its various institutions it would have. On the plus side, the continuous converge of physical, digital, and biological worlds will bring new technologies and platforms that would increasingly enable citizens to engage…