Hossen Sohel of DOT Bangladeshi migrant workers have vandalised the Embassy of Bangladesh in Kuwait amid raging protests over unpaid wages, reports bdnews24.com. On Thursday morning, the workers lined up outside the embassy demanding the release of back pay and iqamas (work permits) by a Kuwaiti firm named ‘Lesco’. The agitated workers then vandalised the…
Mahmudur Rahman writes for DOT : The replacement of thirty-six former Ministers is the biggest signal yet that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina means hard business in her third time consecutive running as Prime Minister. A full party cabinet with just two technocrat ministers suggests that she will stamp down on all the niggles of her…
DOT Desk The country was now flooded with Alibaba, Daraz, Ajker Deal, Pickaboo and other e-commerce sites, reports New Age. The interest of women in online trade was growing and online fashion houses, jewellery houses and other daily products were seeing a boom. These female entrepreneurs worked from home and connected to buyers over phone or…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Anyone here remember Michael J Fox? How about Bridget Fonda? Whatever happened to these celebs? They just slipped away from the spotlight; no paparazzi except for the truly desperate go chasing after them or making their life hell. Now these washed up stars spend the days in other pursuits from getting their PhDs…
Regina Asariotis, Chief, Policy and Legislation Section/UNCTAD Following 2017, one of the warmest years on record that included the most costly hurricane season contributing to the highest documented economic losses (approximately $ 320 billion) due to weather and climate events, the first half of the summer of 2018 was also marked by extreme weather, including…
UNB Huge nets and nylon were gutted in a fire that broke out at a fishing net warehouse at Chaktai in the port city on Friday afternoon. Jasim Uddin, deputy assistant director of Chattogram Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the fire originated at the godown owned by Samiran Barua near Purabi Cinema Hall around…
Rubya Tripty: In the recently concluded SAARC Film Festival in Colombo Bangladeshi film ‘Oggatonama’ , written and directed by Tauquir Ahmed, won the award for best screenplay. Ahmed told after receiving the award, ‘Film from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan were screened in the festival and I am honored and glad to have the prize in…
Russia Today: A Raytheon Mark 82 general-purpose free-fall bomb was likely used by the Saudi-led coalition to strike a bus full of children in Yemen on Thursday, a local journalist claims, after bomb fragments from the scene were recovered. The Saudi-led coalition struck a school bus in the Dahyan area of the Houthi-controlled Saada province…
Reuters: U.S. stock indexes were on track to open slightly lower on Monday as investors focused on escalating trade tensions between the United States and China. China proposed a set of differentiated tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports last week.
The opposition of China, Russia on Monday’s meeting at the United Nations Security Council provides little hope for any stringent actions against Myanmar to repatriate the Rogingya refugees. While the US and other countries were ready for tougher actions, China and Russia’s usual insistence on bilateral solution to the problem between Bangladesh and Myanmar made…