Teacher cut off student’s hair

    Reported by: Saif Nasir Written by: Tanzim Taqrim The charge has been raised against Hamida Begum, a teacher of Bhola Government Girls’ High School for cutting a ninth grade student’s hair because she came to class fashionably. This occurred at school hour last Saturday. DC Mohan Salim Uddin and school principle Shushant Kumar demand justice…

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      Ryan Reynolds Remembers Young Fan Who Died of Cancer

      Starchild Ryan Reynolds has recently posted a touching speech on facebook remembering his youngest fan who lost his battle to cancer in Canada. Ryan met 13 year old Connor Mcgrath three years ago through “make a wish” foundation. They have been very well bonded ever since. Reynolds even showed Connor the uncut version of “Deadpool”…

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        NBFIs in tight corner

        DOT Desk The current effort to bring down lending and deposit rates has started putting pressure on non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs), sector insiders said. To comply with the directive, the non-banks have been forced to slash both lending and deposit rates, although most banks have not implemented it yet, they said, reports The Financial Express…

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          RCC plans Tk 3,000cr road network project

          BSS: Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has taken an initiative of implementing a road network project involving around Taka 3,000 crore aims at lessening the gradually mounting pressure on the existing roads. In the metropolis, population density has gradually been increasing with influx of huge city-bound people and multiplication of high-rise buildings day by day. Taking…

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            Radical Roquia: The Lighthouse

            Pratiti Shirin writes for DOT 9th December marked the 138th birth anniversary of Roquia Sakhawat Hossain commonly known as Begum Rokeya. She has been identified as the most important educator for advancing the cause of women’s education in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Bengal. Born in an aristocratic family in a remote village in…

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              Court sets Bodi graft case next witness date on April 13

              Sabiha Sultana On Wednesday Court sets new date in a graft case against ruling Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission. Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Dhaka Special Judges Court 3 recorded the depositions of the witness, the former Cox’s Bazar’s Sub-Register Motahar Hossain and after that the court has set…

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                Neanderthals: Smarter Than You Think

                Timeline You might have a mental image of Neanderthals as some ancient, sloping-browed, granting human beings who carried quite funny large clubs. But recent discoveries claim that Neanderthals were anything but brutish cavemen. About 200,000 years ago they lived in Europe whereas we, modern humans showed up on the continent 40,000 ago. There were actually…

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                  93pc remediation of Alliance units done

                  DOT Desk Some 93 per cent remediation of the Alliance-affiliated factories has been completed, including 90 per cent of the items that are most critical to life safety, reports The Financial Express. Besides, a total of 428 factories have completed inclusion of all material items in their initial Corrective Action Plans (CAPs), and nearly 1.6…

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