Sejuti Mourin of DOT Ratan Tata is an Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and a former chairman of Tata Sons who serves as its chairman emeritus. He received the Padma Bhushan in 2000 and Padma Vibhushan in 2008, the third and second highest civilian honours awarded by the Government of India. When asked him why isn’t…
DOT Desk A woman was killed by her daughter-in-law in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali on Thursday night, reports The Daily Observer. Deceased Laxmi Rani Nath, 61, was the wife of Santosh Nath, a resident of Charmajid village in the upazila. Mita Rani Nath, 21, stabbed her mother-in-law Laxmi with a machete around 10.00pm. in the…
A 30-year-old woman and her lover were arrested on Tuesday night for allegedly beheading her husband after getting him drunk on November 30 in Shahberi. Rajni, a native of Bhadra village in Chattarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, and Aniruddh (32), a native of Mahoba district, were arrested by a team from the Bisrakh police station…
Reuters: France will invest 3.6 billion euros ($4.2 billion) to renew and upgrade its military satellites to shield its network from potential spying by rivals, its defense minister said on Sunday. “We will install surveillance cameras on our satellites so we will know who is approaching us,” Defence Minister Florence Parly said on French TV…
Muhammad Ali Bukhari from Toronto : The Toronto based BMRA, Bangladesh Minorities Rights Alliance in Canada has demanded safety and security from properties to lives for the minorities, in particular, Hindus during the upcoming election in Bangladesh in a press conference held at Durgabari on Dohme Road on December 23 evening in presence of its…
Desk Report: A Dhaka court yesterday denied a petition seeking bail for actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed and sent her to jail in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act for allegedly spreading rumours on social media during the recent student movement for safe roads, reports Daily Star. Metropolitan Magistrate Mahmuda Akhtar…
Mir Nasir Hossain, Former President, FBCCI: The lower the lending rate, the better it is for investment. The lower lending rate has a positive impact on investment. Banking sector is not the only weapon to boost investment; many other factors also influence investment. Investment gets a boost with the lower lending rate. Investment is dependent…
Suzanne Moore, Guardian columnist/The Guardian, UK From the Presidents Club to Christine Blasey Ford, it’s not been a great year. But there were glimmers of hope, such as in Ireland Apale, slouching Harvey Weinstein has so far escaped criminal charges for the allegations of sexual assault against him. A “millionaire” is given a three-year jail…
DOT Desk: The Shishu Park at Shahbag, the lone public sector children’s amusement park in the capital, was closed for a year due to modernisation activities, causing the visitors to turn back in disappointment, reports The New Age. The entry of the park was made off-limits to visitors from first week of January 2018, since…
UNB The Philadelphia Museum of Art has received a major bequest of over 50 works of American art, including the museum’s first painting by Edward Hopper. The artworks are from the estate of collector Daniel Dietrich II, who died last year. The suburban Philadelphia philanthropist was an heir to a family conglomerate that once included…