AP, Rio De Janeiro Brazil’s Supreme Court handed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a victory on Thursday, ruling against returning a corruption investigation involving the ex-leader back to a judge he accuses of unfairly targeting him. Brazil’s highest court voted 8-2 to take over the case, effectively removing the probe into Silva from…
Sabah Mannan Like any other Rohingya, Tafrida in his early twenties, fled from Buchidang of Rakhine State Myanmar to Bangladesh. Before fleeing, she used to work as a community teacher under a project run by World Food Programme (WFP) in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting…
Khaleej Times: Three women were killed Saturday in a landslide set off by Super Typhoon Mangkhut, Philippine police said, the first reported deaths in the massive storm. Officers in the city of Baguio recovered the women’s bodies from the soil and rubble after a hillside collapsed from the typhoon’s heavy rains, said police Superintendent Pilita…
DOT Desk: Small-screen actor Ziaul Faruq Apurba, can now be seen in a web film titled Ditio Koishor, directed by Shihab Shaheen, reports The Daily Star. This film will be released on the online platform, Bioscope. He has also acted in the drama Tumi Bolle, written by his wife, Nazia Hassan Audity and directed by…
DOT Desk Agriculture scientists in Bangladesh have found a new pest — fall armyworm — that has destroyed maize and sorghum fields covering millions of square kilometres and devastated the livelihoods of farmers in Africa, reports The Daily Star. Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) last month detected the caterpillar in cabbage fields in Rangpur, Thakurgaon,…
Prof Dr Shaheda speaks to DOT : The AL-led Grand Alliance has secured 227 constituencies out of total 300. This shows that they possess much power. The country will upgrade or worsen if they wish so. There will be none to resist them. Time is ripe to go against the corruption. It is not impossible…
Reported by: Riku Amir Written by: Eshan Maitra Secretaries at the Health Ministry are very irritated about the recent increase of ‘Transfer Lobbying’. Also for the fact that, it is turning into a bad culture. Including, nurse-doctors & employee-officers are always crowding the ministry office corridors. Health Minister Md. Nasim noticed that, such crowding is…
Sarwar J. Minar, Senior Officer, International Programs and Relations, IUB : After causing awful atrocities against the Rohingya people, another identity of Myanmar is gradually unfolding. It is a massive yaba producer and supplier; it has been smuggling yaba to its neighboring countries for a long period of time. Yaba (also known as energy pill, crazy…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmad Written by: Eshan Maitra Krishi Shomprosharon Council very much concerned about the severity of the Blast disease in the rice paddies. The traditional ways are failing to prevent it. BRRI estimated, over 1% of the seasonal Ropa Rice will be affected in the South-East region of the country. The number is…
Kabir Humayun: A mobile court of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) fined dozens of jaywalkers at the police box point of Farmgate in Dhaka. Around 26 people were fined by Executive Magistrate Sarah Sadia Taznin at the busiest VIP road of the capital since yesterday morning, reports The Daily Star. All the traffic rule violators…