M Humayun Kabir: A leading US portal Politico reported that BNP has hired the services of two US-based firms to lobby the Trump administration on its behalf. However, several senior BNP leaders denied the authenticity of the report. The report published on September 10 read, “Abdul Sattar of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has hired Blue…
DOT Desk Shafat Ahmed, the son of Dildar Ahmed, one of the owners of Apan Jewellers, received bail on Thursday morning in the Raintree rape case. Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 7 Judge Khademul Kayes passed the order, reports Dhaka Tribune. Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Court Chief Public Prosecutor Abdullah Abu stood for…
M Humayun Kabir: The US Embassy in Dhaka yesterday condemned the attacks on the protesting students who took to the streets demanding safe roads and justice for the deaths of their two peers in a road accident at the capital’s Airport Road. The US Embassy made a statement in this regard published in its official…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed writes for DOT : BNP Secretary General voiced strong doubt about credible polls scheduled to take place today. He further added that it is not easy to revive the “dead democracy as people have lost their confidence in the country’s election system”. He also said they could not carry out the electioneering…
Prof Apu Ukil speaks to DOT : People rejected BNP in the 11th parliamentary polls. The world has seen that BNP suffered a crushing defeat. That’s why BNP is now afraid of taking part in the upazila council and Dhaka North City Corporation elections. BNP’s conspiracy was foiled as the 11th parliamentary elections were held…
Lila MacLellan/QUARTZY The earliest surviving film to depict African-American actors in an intimate moment made its online debut to modern audiences last month—on social media, of course. Viewers found the 29-second silent film, Something Good — Negro Kiss, made in 1898, deeply moving. “The restored film opens on a couple with lips locked in a…
Kabir Humayun: A mobile court fined three private hospitals a total of Tk 27 lakh for using outdated reagents, surgical items and other irregularities. Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam said the mobile court team of Rab-2 along with Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) and Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) launched the day-long drive in…
Reported by: Hasan Arif Written by: Eshan Maitra Garments workplace development combined initiatives Accord-Alliance made a deal to conduct their work in Bangladesh till 31 May of 2018. Labor Ministers & Commerce Minister, BGMEA & top leaders of FBCCI sat for a meeting with the, ILO, Industrial & Uniglobal delegates, to discuss about related terms….
Hindustan Times: Being a woman is tough in China — at least if you go by how men and women spend their day. Chinese women on average spend 2.1 hours a day on housework, roughly three times that of men, according to a survey by the National Bureau of Statistics conducted last year and published…
Sky News: Human-sized cages are being installed in a zoo’s tiger and bear enclosures to catch people who fall into them. Delhi Zoo is introducing the cages after a visitor fell into its white tigers’ moat in 2014 and was mauled to death. The student was leaning against the moat separating the enclosure from the…