DOT Desk: The house of a journalist at Narsingshar village under Natai Dakkhin union in Sadar upazila was ravaged for two consecutive times allegedly by the local union parishad (UP) chairman and his men over previous enmity, reports The Daily Star. The goons first attacked the house of journalist Shamim-un-Bashir on Sunday evening and then…
DOT Desk: Jatiya Oikyafront Convener Dr Kamal Hossain is going to Singapore tonight for treatment, reports The Daily Star. Dr Kamal along with his wife Hamida Hossain will leave Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a flight of Singapore Airlines at 10:30pm, Gonoforum General Secretary Mostafa Mohsin Montu, told The Daily Star this evening. He said…
Azfar Aziz, Advisory Editor, Daily Finland : So far three city corporation elections have been held in Bangladesh mainly to test the ground for the upcoming parliamentary polls. It’s a common practice in most of the representative democracies, unlike the currently negligible number of direct democracies. A direct democracy is where people decide and vote on…
DOT Desk: Dhaka has blasted Myanmar’s allegation of existence of Arakan Army and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) bases in Bangladesh and termed it fake, baseless and provocative accusations, reports The Daily Star. “Bangladesh is utterly disappointed and aggrieved to note some media reports based on remarks by the Spokesperson of Myanmar President’s Office on…
M Humayun Kabir: Mukesh Ambani, Industrialist and Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman, has retained the top position as the richest person in India for the seventh consecutive year, reports NDTV. According to the report, Barclays Hurun India Rich List-2018 told NDTV on Tuesday that he has topped their list with Rs 371,000 crore as his estimated…
AP, Multan A head-on collision between a passenger bus and truck killed at least 19 passengers, including women and children, in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province on Wednesday, a rescue official said. Several people were also injured in the accident near the city of Faisalabad in Punjab province, said the official, Mohammad Naseem. “We have transported…
M Humayun Kabir The ruling Awami League started a week-long campaign across the country from yesterday to make people conscious about possible activities to create anarchy and incite violence. AL lawmakers and leaders were directed to make the campaign a grand success, reports The Daily Star. The decision was taken at an AL secretary-level meeting…
Myisha Nawar With the growing world population, we have developed a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have been directed to lots of different foods as ‘problematic’. From almonds and their water use to corn and its monoculture to beef…
Sofian Khan: Floods have been triggered due to excessive and continuous rainfall in the last few days in three districts of Sylhet division including some upazilas of Chittagong district. The raining have swelled up Khowai, Manu and Dhalai rivers which caused to flood in numbers of villages in Moulvibazar and Habiganj districts. Moreover, severe flooding…
Arab News: A European aid group says migrants are telling rescuers that several ships passed them by in the Mediterranean Sea without helping. SOS Mediterranee says Sunday that due to the recent refusal of Italy and Malta to let rescue vessels carrying migrants dock, ships might be unwilling to do rescues “due to the high…