Russia Today: With the #10YearChallenge craze sweeping social media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu jumped aboard, showing off his progress erecting a concrete and barbed wire wall on the border with Egypt. A lot can change in ten years. The selfies flooding social media in recent days show people growing older, more mature and wiser….
Russia Today: The US military and intelligence have already compiled a list of preliminary targets they would strike in response to another chemical-weapons incident in Syria, CNN reported, citing US administration officials. The military are ready to “respond very quickly” if US President Donald Trump decides to launch another strike against the Syrian government, one…
Arab News: Iran’s supreme leader on Monday accused President Hassan Rouhani’s government of mismanagement, after a string of angry public protests over the dire state of the economy. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s statement was an apparent attempt to deflect public anger over the plunging worth of the rial — the currency has lost about half of…
Myisha Nawar Dear You, Right now you are feeling like you are not good enough; pretty enough; smart enough. Right now you are feeling insecure. In your heart, you know that you ARE capable. It’s not that you don’t love yourself. You’re just not feeling completely “yourself” right now. I want to take this opportunity…
Tanzim Taqrim Arnob Independent and courageous women are driving scooters, cars and heavy vehicles effortlessly. Bitasta Ahmed a women who drives her scooter around the capital. Farewell to the sufferings of mass transport she has been driving her scooter without any hesitation from one point to another. She said “It is a better option to…
Sayeed Muhammad: Fo-ur internationally celebrated authors and intellectuals yesterday demanded immediate release of acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam, who was arrested on Sunday night. Indian writer Arundhati Roy, Canadian author Naomi Klein, American writer, philosopher Noam Chomsky and Indian intellectual Vijay Prashad made then call through a joint statement, reports New Age. ‘Documentation and criticism are…
DOT Desk: Agricultural Marketing Company Limited — AMCL (PRAN) — has approved 32 per cent cash dividend for its shareholders for the year that concluded on June 30, 2017-18. The approval came at the 33th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the company held at Fuzi Trade Centre in the capital’s Badda area on Thursday, said…
Raj Abrar of DOT Bangladesh has been elected as a member of the Bureau of the Assembly of the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the 17th assembly of States parties to the Rome Statute, held on December 5 in the Hague, Bangladesh was elected unanimously for next two years (2019-20), according to a foreign ministry…
DOT Desk: eiterating her government’s firm stance against corruption, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government will continue its fight against graft to keep up the country’s development spree and uphold its achievements, reports The Daily Star. “Though it’s not possible for any country to root out hundred percent corruption, it’s a responsibility of our…