Peter Beinart/The Atlantic Donald Trump’s ideological cousins around the world want to reverse the feminist gains of recent decades. When americans look abroad these days, they see Donald Trumps everywhere: In Brazil, whose new president, Jair Bolsonaro, endorses torture, threatens to pull out of the Paris climate-change agreement, and suggests that his country was better…
DOT Desk Bangladesh Bank has suspended all kind of mobile financial services in the run-up to the 11th general election, reports The Daily Star. All MFS providers have been asked to keep their services suspended from 5:00pm on December 28 through to 5:00pm on December 30, according to a notice from the central bank yesterday….
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT In a goodwill gesture, a Turkish charity organization, donated an electric wheelchair to a 15-year-old girl in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, said an official with the aid group. Hamit Kunt, a coordinator at the Deniz Feneri Association, said that the wheelchair was delivered to Humaira Jannat Nadia, reports Anadolu Agency. “Nadia’s family…
Hindustan Times: An 18-year-old student from Georgia solved six Rubik’s cubes under water in one breath on Friday, in a bid to set a new Guinness World Record. Vako Marchelashvili was submerged in a glass tank for just over one minute and 44 seconds as he flipped, turned and solved the cubes in front of…
Tarannum Sattar Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested. – Octavia E. Butler The message read: “Despite of being a feminist, how could…
Sayeed Muhammad: The Maldives police and army have said they will act to guarantee that the result of Sunday’s presidential election is honoured. The move comes amid reports the country’s ousted leader Abdulla Yameen is preparing a last-minute legal challenge to the vote, reports The Guardian. The acting chief of the Maldives police, Abdulla Nawaz,…
Sabah Mannan: After suffering from cancer for long time, BNP leader and former minister M Shamsul Islam passed away on Thursday (April 26) around 2:30pm in Dhaka’s United Hospital. He was 87 years old, reports Banglanews. The veteran politician’s personal secretary Kamrul Hasan informed that the former minister had been receiving treatment at the hospital for…
Afrida Ahmed US President has started on an 11-day trip to Asia’s Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. This will be the longest Asia’s trip by a US President in 25 years. President Trump first went to Hawaii on Friday where he visited the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Donald Trump…
Desk Report Bangladesh’s ace all-rounder Shakib al Hasan slipped to second place in the International Cricket Council (ICC) ODI all-rounder rankings. He lost the top spot to Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan, reports The Daily Sun. Rashid Khan has become the top-ranked one-day international (ODI) all-rounder after his performance in the recently concluded Asia Cup. Khan took…
AP, Ankara Turkey’s Foreign Ministry says Turkish and Israeli officials have made progress on an agreement to normalize frayed ties and that a deal is expected to be reached soon. A ministry statement issued early on Friday said officials who met in London on Thursday agreed to finalize the deal during their next meeting “which…