Shahriar Kabir speaks to DOT : Human Rights Day is observed every year globally on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year, Human Rights Day marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that proclaimed…
Monirul Alam of DOT Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) will scan United Corporation’s financial transactions through banking channels.“The firm’s (United Corporation) financial transactions in banks will be scanned,” BFIU Chief Razee Hassan told Amader Orthoneeti yesterday. The BFIU is an independent wing of Bangladesh Bank to deal with money laundering and terrorist financing issues….
MEMO: Israel approved plans to construct 220 illegal settlement units in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal Al-Mukabbir, a settlement activist has revealed day before yesterday. Aryeh King, a right-wing candidate running for the Jerusalem Municipality, said the Israeli Civil Administration had approved the plans. The units would serve as part of the expansion…
Abrar Hussain: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday that only Premier Sheikh Hasina is aware when the polls-time interim government will be formed. He added that since the Election Commission will be deciding the election date, it is unwise for anyone to discuss about these issues. Quader, also Road Transport and Bridges Minister,…
Ahmed Raju Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority (DWASA) has taken initiation to reinstall all their pipelines throughout Dhaka city. This will reform the allover function & efficiency of WASA, believes the authority. WASA has already changed the pipelines in the areas of, Pallabi, Kalshi, Mirpur-12, Rupnagar, Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara, Bashundhara, Tejgaon, Mohakhali & Kawranbazar….
Abrar Hussain: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud officially inaugurated a high-speed rail line connecting the holy cities of Mecca and Medina yesterday. The 450 km-long Haramain rail line will connect Mecca, Jeddah, King Abdulaziz International Airport, King Abdullah Economic City in Rabigh and Medina. Regular trains will start operating on the line…
UNB: The smugglers of sacrificial animal rawhides are facing an unfavourable situation this time due to strong vigilance by law enforcers at different strategic border points as well as the downtrend in rawhide prices on the international market, said tanners. Official sources said police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have already taken strong measures to…
Reuters Turkey will have nothing left to do in the Syrian town of Manbij once “terrorist organizations” leave the area, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, hours after the Syrian army said it had entered the town. Turkey has threatened an assault on Manbij to drive out the Kurdish YPG militia, which it regards as…
The Japan Times: A local fisheries association in western Japan will resume commercial whaling from July 1 for the first time in 31 years, association sources said Thursday. The move comes after Japan announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission in December. An association ship in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, known for its whaling and…
Reuters: A spokeswoman for Angela Merkel said on Friday she could not comment on reports that the chancellor had lost confidence in Germany’s embattled domestic intelligence chief. “I still can’t say anything on that,” Ulrike Demmer told a news conference, pointing to an agreement reached on Thursday between the leaders of the three parties in…