Written by: Eshan Maitra Most already have received their bonuses for the upcoming Eid vacation. Ignoring the weather or heavy traffic, every is very busy doing their annual festival shopping. People have started crowding up all the popular mega-city shopping malls and markets in Dhaka. In this mechanized capital, workaholic people do not mind shopping…
DOT Desk: ar sales fell 16.5 percent to 18,227 units last year, the lowest in four years, as customers tightened their belts because of uncertainty surrounding the general election, reports The Daily Star. Some 21,959 units of cars were registered with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) in 2017. It was 20,304 and 21,062 units in…
Reuters: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a trip to Colombia planned for next week due to the situation around the Gaza Strip, an Israeli official said on Thursday.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not give further details. Netanyahu was due to travel to the Latin American country from Aug. 6-9.Tensions…
Israel Harel/Haaretz Well-intentioned people who have blinded themselves to reality seek to duplicate the brilliant model of ‘the disengagement is good for security’ from Lebanon and Gaza in Judea and Samaria Hundreds of retired high-ranking officers, joined by former senior Mossad and Shin Bet security service officials, signed a so-called professional opinion in 2005 that…
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury/The Economic Times Sheikh Hasina’s unprecedented electoral success that brought her to power for a record fourth time will not only continue to ensure stability along India’s eastern border but also open up a plethora of opportunities for sub-regional partnership, with Bangladesh acting as a bridge between India and Southeast Asia. This, in…
Tara Sattar The Bulgarian capital will host the “First festival of Italian cinema in Bulgaria – David di Donatello Award” between May 31 and June 6. The festival is an initiative organised and promoted by the Italian commercial chamber in Bulgaria, the Cultural association Titian and is carried out in cooperation with the Academy of…
Samiul Bashar Samin If you thought that power struggles are something that just happen on a global scale, prepare to be proven wrong. Everyone wants power. Our society seems to be trapped inside a bubble with this intangible war going on all around us. We just can’t seem to break free of all the constraints…
Desk report: Tea garden workers’ organisations on Saturday demanded immediate implementation of six-point demand, including daily minimum wage of Tk 300, reports The new Age. They made the demands from a rally after forming a human chain in front of the Central Shaeed Minar in Sylhet city in the afternoon. Bishwabidyalaya Cha Chhatra Sangsad, a…
Abrar Hussain of DOT : The ‘White Helmets’ are not a rescue group but an extension of jihadist militants, and should be designated a terrorist organization, according to an argument presented by the Russian envoy to the UN during a presentation of evidence into the group’s alleged wrongdoing. Praised in the West as humanitarian rescue…
DOT Desk: The first bonded, cross-border, land-air transshipment from Bangladesh departed Indian airport of Kolkata, reports The Daily Observer. Expo Freight Limited (EFL) introduced a tailor-made logistics solution to handle such cargo transshipment between the two neighbouring countries, said a press release of the company. The EFL offices in Bangladesh and India worked jointly in…