Prof. Anu Muhammad speaks to DOT : The Awami League manifesto contains much erroneous information. One of these is that it has done many things in the last decade to advance democracy and human rights. The level of desecration of human rights, democratic ideals and freedom of speech that occurred during this government’s tenure was…
Kabir Humayun of DOT BNP yesterday said it will not allow any war criminal to contest the 11th parliamentary election with the party’s electoral symbol ‘Sheaf of Paddy’. “I can assure you no war criminal will be allowed to use our electoral symbol Sheaf of Paddy,“ said BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan, reports…
Samiul Bashar Samin Artificial food. That’s what humans eat. I say this to anyone who will listen. ‘Oh yes,’ comes the reply. ‘The more’s the pity. Cheap, nasty, imitation food-like substances. It’s high time to return to natural food.’ But, no, I mean artificial in its original sense of man-made, produced by humans, artfully created….
BSS Rahela Khatun, 31, lives at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar district. She visits regularly a health centre run by a non-government organization (NGO). She was informed in the centre about different birth control systems. A mother of seven, Rahela was earlier in dark about those practices. Now, she is taking…
Reuters: A landslide killed a woman and at least seven children in Nepal over the weekend as officials issued warnings on Monday of the risk of more landslides and flash floods due to torrential rain. Working in the downpour, rescuers in Bheri town, about 310 kilometers (193 miles) west of capital Kathmandu, were still searching…
Daniel Oberhaus/Motherboard A reflection on my month without Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, plus a how-to guide if you want to quit the biggest companies in tech. It was just before closing time at a Verizon store in Bushwick, New York last May when I burst through the door, sweaty and exasperated. I had…
Xasir Youssaf: The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2018 under 10 education boards will begin across the country today amid tough measures taken to check question paper leakage and other malpractices in the examinations. The authorities concerned have taken stern measures to check question paper leakage in the Higher Secondary Certificate…
CNN: President Trump recommended building a wall across the Sahara to solve Europe’s migrant crisis, Spain’s foreign minister says. Josep Borrell, also a former President of the European Parliament, disagreed with the strategy. The comments were came during a visit Mr Borrell made to the US at the end of June. Mr Trump’s pledge to…
BSS: The district administration at a function transferred ownership of 1.72 acres of Khas land to 19 landless families through handing over land registration documents. Divisional Commissioner Muhammad Joynul Bari handed over land registration documents to the landless families of Haridebpur and Mominpur unions of Rangpur Sadar upazila of the district as the chief guest….
Sayeed Muhammad: A proposal has allegedly been made to settle down the issue of man being killed by Mohammed Ekramul Karim Chowdhury MP’s son Shabab Chowdhury in a road accident. It is learnt that Tk30 lakh has been offered to the victim’s family. Salim Bepari, a 50-year-old Barisal man, was killed was crossing the Airport…