Abid Sarker Shohag The stakes are high. The soap opera of India- Bangladesh has dragged us here from the infamous World Cup quarter final to the final of Asia Cup 2016. Some will say this rivalry comes way back from the second round of 2007 World Cup. It has been a story of revenge, vengeance…
DOT Desk The number of active mobile phone subscribers in Bangladesh increased by 6.59 lakh in October despite state-owned Teletalk having lost 4.52 lakh users in the month, reports The New Age. Industry insiders said although voice call and data tariffs of the lone state-owned mobile operator were compatible with private mobile operators, the subscriber…
Salman Ahmad/Daily O, India Dil sey jo baat nikaltee hai asar rakhtee hai / Par nahin taqatey parvaaz magar rakhtee hai: Allama Iqbal (The whisper in your heart has strength / It may not have wings but it has the power to fly) When I was a teenager, I played club cricket at Lahore Gymkhana…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Five pieces of debris believed to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were handed over to the Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke yesterday. The debris were said to be found by local fishermen and members of the public between December 2016 and August this year at three separate locations…
AP: The Taliban is likely to keep up its recent surge of violence in advance of scheduled parliamentary elections in October but Western-backed Afghan defenses will not break, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. In his most detailed comments on the Taliban’s assault on the eastern city of Ghazni since it began Aug. 10, Mattis…
A stuffed deer stands in a former US ammunition store just outside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas, tree branches spreading up from its antlers towards the roof. The work was installed this year at Camp Greaves, a former US army facility within the buffer zone that runs alongside the DMZ that has…
MD Saddam Hossain, Thakurgaon Correspondent: The supporters of Thakurgaon Ditrict Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) demonstrated a symbolic hunger strike demanding release of Begum Khaleda Zia. District BNP organized the program yesterday in front of their district party office. Al Mamun Alam, the vice-president of district BNP presided over the hunger strike. District BNP general secretary…
Arafat Hassan: Naogaon journalists formed a human chain in front of district Press Club yesterday, demanding arrest and exemplary punishment of the murderers of journalist Suborna. Press Club president Kayes Uddin led the chain where Ananda TV correspondent Kazi Kamal Hossain, press club general secretary Mir Mosharraf Hossain Jewel, senior vice-president Shafiqul Islam Khokon, joint…
Tariq A. Al Maeena, Saudi socio-political commentator/ Gulf News If Saudis do not feel like welcoming Israelis on their lands, they are perfectly right An international chess tournament that was scheduled to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has had its venue moved to Russia. The organisers of the World Blitz and Rapid Championship confirmed…
Afsan Chowdhury writes for DOT : We were not sure if we were going to win but we felt more confident than ever in 1970 that things were going to be better than before. Everyone I knew were planning to vote for the AL though that might also be a fact for voters of Dhaka-…