Eurek Alert: It’s the archetypal child’s drawing – family, pet, maybe a house and garden, and the child themselves. Yet how do children represent themselves in their drawings, and does this representation alter according to who will look at the picture? A research team led by academics from the University of Chichester has examined this…
Arafat Hasan: Amnesty International has called on Bangladesh to end the crackdown on protests that has led to the detention of nearly 100 people, reported The Daily Star. “A pall of fear has descended on civil society with protestors being subject to intense surveillance online and arbitrary arrests,” the human rights organization alleged in a…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Justin Trudeau’s trip to Japan for bilateral talks and the Group of Seven summit was about more than just business. The prime minister took some much needed time off without any meetings or events, so he could celebrate his 11th wedding anniversary with his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. The couple spent the night…
Arafat Hasan of DOT : The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee arrived in Bangladesh yesterday to observe the Rohingya situation in the Cox’s Bazar district, despite being barred from entering Myanmar, reported the Dhaka Tribune. Lee, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, will arrived from Thailand where she…
Porag Majhi A Bangladeshi named, Sadman Zaman (25) went Israel on February. Sadman failed to reenter Bangladesh after this & returned back to Israeli. With helps from a team of British-Irish delegates, on 22 November. Also, Sadman gave a strong & descriptive long interview to the biggest Israeli media, the Jerusalem Post. He firmly claimed…
Tech Explorist Various companies, entities or institutions have started collecting anonymized data that contains location stamps of the user. Though, the data can be acquired through phones records, credit card transactions and social media accounts. Doing this, they got details about users and users’ behavior for business expansion. What comes here is privacy issues. For…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government will take further initiatives to amend the relevant law of holding trial of Jamaat-e-Islami as an organisation for committing war crimes, reports The Daily Star. The law will be amended as per instruction from the prime minister, the minister said while talking…
Tim Steel writes for DOT We learn, many of us, at school, first to cope with the bullies and the braggers, and then, if we have any empathy, to learn that these unpleasant behavioural characteristics are, invariably, those of the more deeply insecure. And so, we find, it is, also, with groups of people…even entire…
BSS: Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has penalised 18 shops Taka 56,500 in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions in December last year for selling and manufacturing adulterated food items. Eight mobile courts of the BSTI Rajshahi regional office in association with local administration conducted drives in different parts of the two divisions. and found the…
Desk Report Mahidol University of Thailand and University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh will sign a MoU shortly for cooperation and collaboration in the field of higher education and research. A six-member delegation of Mahidol University led by Prof Dr Patcharee Lertrit called on UGC chairman (In-Charge) Prof Dr M Shah Nowaz Ali yesterday. They…