in Sherpur DOT Desk Miscreants vandalised an election campaign office of the Awami League candidate of Sherpur-1 constancy in Bagbari Bazar of sadar upazila early yesterday reports Daily Sun. Md Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sherpur Police Station, said some unidentified miscreants vandalised office furniture in Dhola union in the dark of night and later set…
Raj Abrar: Former US President Barack Obama recently criticized his successor Donald Trump as well as the Republican party on Friday, while also urging Democrats to deliver a check on the administration’s “abuses of power” and restore a sense of sanity to politics by voting in November’s elections. In an unusually blistering verbal attack, Obama…
Reuters: Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said on Tuesday he is not seeking revenge for the 2005 bombing that killed his father, former prime minister Rafik Hariri, and will act to preserve stability in his country. Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said on Tuesday he is not seeking revenge for the 2005 bombing that killed…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The Election Commission (EC) yesterday turned down candidature of Jatiya Party leader Ruhul Amin Hawlader from Patuakhali-1 constituency for contesting the upcoming general election, reports the Daily Star. The EC during the second day of its hearing declared Hawlader’s candidature invalid on the ground of loan default, our staff correspondent reports…
Sayeed Muhammad: The apex court has deferred until tomorrow the hearing on the leave-to-appeal petitions filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail which the High Court granted her in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, passed on the order yesterday, reports the…
Jeremy J. Baumberg, Nano-scientist at the University of Cambridge/Project Syndicate Globalization, the digitization of knowledge, and the growing number of scientists all seem, at first glance, like positive trends for the progress of science. But these trends are Janus-faced, for they also encourage a hyper-competitive, trend-driven, and herd-like approach to scientific research. Scientific knowledge and…
Reported by: Shakil Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra Mayor Anisul Haque worked tirelessly to retrieve the Capital’s Tejgaon Tuck-stand. It won’t given-up at all. Dhaka North City Corporation will fulfil all the promises Mayor gave to the Truck-Cavardvan Owners’ Council, assured current DNCC panel mayor Md. Osman Gani. Several news-reports were published & telecasted that,…
ABC News: With fewer areas in active combat in Syria, more children are going back to school this year, the Syrian government said, putting the number at 4 million. Keen to project an image of normalcy, the government said it has rehabilitated over 400 schools over the last two months alone and called on students…
Yen Yen Ong/ Tropical fish hobbyist from Singapore Nguyen Trun Truc has been sentenced to an unbelievable 12 YEARS FOR allegedly ‘carrying out activities to overthrow the people’s administration.’ This is far from the truth! Nguyen Trun Truc is being severely punished for PEACEFUL ACTIVISM. Yet again, a Vietnamese court has acted in an extreme…
Prof. Dr. Syed Anwar Husain, Department of History, DU : It is the families that have to the youth away from drugs, and then the responsibility goes to educational institutes. Both families and educational institutes must perform their duties properly. However, none of the moves succeed until the government stops the supply of narcotics at…