Reported by: Riku Amir Written by: Eshan Maitra Secretaries at the Health Ministry are very irritated about the recent increase of ‘Transfer Lobbying’. Also for the fact that, it is turning into a bad culture. Including, nurse-doctors & employee-officers are always crowding the ministry office corridors. Health Minister Md. Nasim noticed that, such crowding is…
UNB Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from his house at Surat village in Sadar upazila early Saturday in connection with several cases. Officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station Hasan Hafizur Rahman said tipped off, a team of police conducted a raid on the house of Matiur Rahman, ammer of Sadar thana unit of…
DOT Desk: SS Steel Limited made a flying trading debut as its share price jumped 401 per cent to Tk 50.10 on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday. The engineering sector company made its share trading debut on both the stock exchanges in the country under “N” category, reports The Financial Express BD. Its…
Pratiti Shirin writes for DOT : For Sarah Ariannas to whom we owe a better world. Recently, we have seen a number of brave individuals coming forward with their stories of sexual abuse. Their purpose was to expose the perpetrators. But what about those who don’t make it to the Me Too march? What about…
DOT Desk BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed separate petitions with the Supreme Court, seeking stay on the High Court order that rejected her three writ petitions challenging the Election Commission’s decision to uphold cancellation of her nomination papers by the returning officers, reports The Daily Star. In the petitions, Khaleda prayed to the Appellate…
AFP : Six people died in a stampede at a nightclub near Ancona in central Italy after panic erupted in the early hours of Saturday morning, firefighters said. “The cause may have been the dispersal of a stinging substance, the young people fled and trampled over each other. Sadly, six people died and dozens are…
M Humayun Kabir: The Election Commission yesterday said that the upcoming 11th parliamentary election will be held in the last week of December. The EC is now taking preparation to introduce Electronic Voting Machine in 100 electoral constituencies, said its secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed, reports The Daily Star. Amid opposition from different political parties including…
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist/BDnews24 He is an 8-year-old boy who is starving and has limbs like sticks, but Yaqoob Walid doesn’t cry or complain. He gazes stolidly ahead, tuning out everything, for in late stages of starvation the human body focuses every calorie simply on keeping the organs functioning. Yaqoob arrived unconscious…
UNB: Dismissing media reports about the suspension of Bangladeshi workers’ recruitment to Malaysia, Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam on Tuesday said the labour market in the Southeast Asian country has not been closed to Bangladeshis. “The Malaysian government has decided to suspend the recruitment procedure through the Foreign Worker Application System, locally…