Lela Gilbert, Internationally recognized expert on religious persecution, an award-winning author/The Jerusalem Post Christian women in Egypt face an epidemic of kidnapping, rape, beatings and torture. Egypt’s Christian community faces dangers that most other Egyptians needn’t fear. Threats of violence during church services, attacks on buses filled with innocent pilgrims and their children, and assaults…
UNB The body of a school boy, who was reportedly abducted on Sunday, was recovered from a neighbour’s house in Ramchandrapur village of Bheramara upazila on Monday evening.The deceased was identified as Ashik Uddin, 14. son of Kutub Uddin of the village and a class VII student of Dharampur High School. The victim’s father Kutub…
Mihir Zaveri, Guilbert Gates & Karen Zraick /The New York Times At midnight on Saturday, the shutdown entered its 22nd day, which makes it the longest gap in American government funding ever.That beats the previous record, under President Bill Clinton in 1995, of 21 days. In total, there have been 21 gaps in government funding…
DOT Desk: The government would engage with the Sri Lankan authorities on containing drug smuggling as the island country alleged that six Bangladesh nationals were found involved in smuggling a huge drug consignment, reports The New Age. The government on Sunday decided to send a delegation to Colombo to assess whether any Bangladesh citizen was…
Born and raised in Bangladesh, Mustafa Chowdhury left for Canada back in 1972 when he was only 23. While working for the Government of Canada, he took an interest in the war babies of Bangladesh mainly because he was involved in conducting research in the area of children of mixed marriage and their notion of…
Sayeed Muhammad: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday laid emphasis on protecting students from militancy and drug addition, only to help ensure a better future. “Teachers and guardians should be aware so that students are not misguided by evil forces,” he said while addressing the 5th convocation of State University of Bangladesh (SUB) at the Bangabandhu…
Raj Ahmed of DOT The Yemeni government revealed that a warehouse allegedly used to store Houthi weapons was found on Monday, which the militias left behind after being defeated in one of their positions in their major stronghold Saada north of Yemen. Military sources said the warehouse, located in Wadi Al Bou Jabara, was recently…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Families yesterday demanded the return of four youths who they say were picked up by plainclothes men ahead of the general election, reports The Daily Star. The “missing” are: Abu Khaled Mohammad, 25, third year student of Bangla at Asian University; Borhan Uddin, 26, English student at Stamford University; RezaulKhalek, 24,…
Reader’s Digest: It’s not necessarily the ones who bring in doughnuts and give you compliments. She gives you a challenging project: One of the primary jobs of a boss is to help develop and improve her employees, and a great boss knows just how hard to push you and what assignments will help cultivate your…
DOT Desk: Anarchy and indiscipline still continue on roads in the capital and elsewhere in the country, causing frequent accidents and huge loss of lives, reports The Daily Sun. Almost everyday, reckless driving is costing lives on different roads in the country. Road accidents are taking place frequently because of reckless driving, overtaking tendency of…