DOT Desk: BINA China-4 peanut is turning fortune wheel of landless char people. BINA (Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture) Magura sources informed, cultivation of BINA China-4 peanut is gaining popularity among char farmers, reports The Financial Express. Agriculturist Dr Abul Kalam Azad is the originator of BINA China-4 peanut. Char land is suitable for the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Seven people have died in a road accident at Lakshmipur’s Ratanpur yesterday, reports bdnews24.com. The driver of an auto-rickshaw and six passengers, who belong to one family, were killed after a truck rammed into the three-wheeler around 5:00am on the Lakshmipur-Chandraganj Highway, police said. The family members were headed to Lakshmipur…
UNB: Despite owning some of the world’s largest reserves of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), the Middle Eastern nation of Iran stands out as unique in its region for having captured a place in people’s hearts in every corner of the globe through a purely creative pursuit – namely cinema. By the time Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Awami League’s nomination board will sit on January 26 to determine their candidates for DNCC mayoral election and Kishoreganj-1 polls, reports The Daily Star. The party’s general secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday confirmed the matter while replying to a query by journalists after a view-exchange meeting with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA)…
Ramzy Baroud/ Middle East Monitor The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran should pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the forceful expulsion of Jews from Arab countries during the late 1940s. The events that Israel cites allegedly occurred at a time…
Isaac Chotiner/ The New Yorker In her new book, “Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts,” Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of the Times, examines how four large American news organizations are surviving the age of the Internet and Donald Trump. Abramson’s accounts of Vice, BuzzFeed, the Washington Post,…
Durdana Nuzat Mahmood and Samiul Azim writes for DOT : The struggle for trade union rights of labors started in the 19th century when in the Europe agricultural jobs declined and employment moved towards the industrial areas. Groups such as the Tolpuddle Martyrs of Dorset were punished and transported for forming unions, which was against…
Faisal Mahmud/Asia Times The Jatiya Party’s post-election about-turn to lead the parliamentary opposition against its ally the Awami League has stoked fresh controversy Bangladesh is experiencing the strange problem of finding a parliamentary opposition deemed to be suitable and acceptable, after the latest national elections were completed on December 30. Bangladesh is one of the…
Jill Nicole Filipovic, Attorney and author/Gulf News Theirs is a collaborative, generational effort to move towards the good of society At the end of this month, Nancy Pelosi will retake her position on the podium behind the US president as he gives his State of the Union address. As speaker of a House that is…
DOT Desk: Students and teachers of the music Department, and invited singers from India and Sri Lanka will perform at the festival, reports The Dhaka Tribune. A two-day long music festival will be held at University of Dhaka’s Teacher-Student Centre on January 27-28. The DU music department organizes the festival as part of its regular…