DOT Desk Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya on Saturday urged the political parties to pledge in their manifestos, to be announced for the 11th parliamentary elections, not to interfere in the banking sector if they win the polls, reports The Financial Express. He made the call while addressing…
AP, Washington The proposed placement of a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea is “going to happen” despite Chinese opposition, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday. Washington and Seoul began talks last month on deploying the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system to combat the threat of North Korean missiles, following a recent…
UNB: The vitamin A plus campaign slated for Saturday (Jan 19) has been postponed for ‘unavoidable’ reasons, said the Institute of Public Health Nutrition in a press release. The government put the campaign on hold as it had reports of the capsules get glued with one another in the packets. Asked, an official wishing anonymity…
Pakistan Vs Sri Lanka was a knockout match. Sri Lanka lost the chance to make position in semi final. Pakistan and Sri Lanka had 50-50 chance to the semi. Sri Lankan batsmen didn’t click well for the knockout. Sri Lanka lost all their wickets at 236 in 49.2 over. Dickwella added the highest…
Dr. Anupam Sen, VC, Premier University & Sociologist : We all expect to get a drug-free society. Drug, in no way, can contribute prosperity to the society. Drug eventually takes the life of a man, ruining his family. Both the drug-peddlers and the abusers forget that their activities can result destruction and destabilization in the…
Kabir Humayun Barrister Nazmul Huda, former BNP minister, has filed a case against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha. Maruf Hossain Sarder, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), told The Daily Star yesterday afternoon that Sinha was sued by former communication minister Huda with Shahbagh Police Station. The police official, however, did not…
Tahmeed Taha: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think-tank, yesterday said at a program in Dhaka that 56.9 percent of the women population of the country with working age is not present in education, employment and training (NEET). This was revealed by CPD during a dialogue on ‘Promoting Female in Bangladesh for Realizing Demographic…
Desk Report: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has identified seven private picnic spots and resorts which were built grabbing forest land in Gazipur in collusion with dishonest forest officials, reports Daily Sun. A three-member ACC enquiry team, led by its director Sayed Iqbal Hossain, found that the seven resorts and picnic spots were built occupying forest land….
Ismail Hussain Emu The Comilla District Police Super has assured protesters that Tonu’s murderers will be arrested within 7 days. Due to this assurance the students an organizations protesting Tonu’s death have called off their activities for now. According to the Comilla Correspondent, protesters had blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Nandanpur, Adarsha Sadar Upazila at…
UNB A trader was hacked to death allegedly by his rivals at Kazirber in Sharsha upazila early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Zahidul Islam Zahid, 32, a C&F agent and son of Abdur Jabbar Tarafdar of Narayanpur village in Benapole. Quoting locals, Mashiur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sharsha Police Station, said Zahidul gave Tk 7…