Arafat Hasan of DOT The High Court directed the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to immediately forward the nomination papers of BNP leader Mirza Abbas to the returning officer for scrutiny. The court also directed the returning officer for Dhaka-9 constituency to complete the scrutiny of the nomination papers within 24 hours starting yesterday. The HC…
DOT Desk Export earnings from plastic products have risen by 30 per cent during the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY19), according to statistics of Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) and Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BPGMEA), reports The Financial Express. Multiple uses of plastic products have increased in the country…
UNB: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the MPs-elect of BNP to join Parliament for the sake of democracy and to utilise the scope for their return to constructive politics. “BNP should join Parliament for the sake of democracy accepting its defeat in the election,” she said. The Prime Minister said this in her introductory…
Tanzim Taqrim Elderly Japanese people face the problem of lack of space in hospitals. 80% of them prefer to die in a hospital because they feel hospitals safer and don’t want to burden family members. One in four Japanese people are over the age of 65. And hospital beds are becoming increasingly insufficient, especially in…
Reuters: China’s Ministry of Agriculture said on Sunday that 134 hogs had died from African swine fever in Xuancheng city of eastern Anhui province, bringing the total number of outbreaks in China over the past month to six. Xuancheng city is around 70 km (45 miles) southeast of Wuhu city, where another African swine fever…
Arafat Hasan of DOT A Muslim congresswoman-elect has co-authored changes to a longstanding rule banning the wearing of head coverings on the US House floor, an effort which has been given support by the nation’s largest Muslim rights group on Monday. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who was one of the first two Muslim women…
DOT Desk Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five suspected robbers from Railway Colony besides Tejgaon Station Road in the city on Monday night, reports The Daily Observer. The arrestees were Md Jahangir, 40, Md Rumon, 26, Md Wadud, 30, Md Khorshed and Md Lalchand, 22. Being informed that a gang…
Entertainment Desk Bollywood king Shahrukh Khan danced to the steps of his new song from Maneesh Sharma’s “Fan” in the song “Jabra”. The band’s name is 6 pack band and was launched in collaboration with Sonu Nigam this January. This video clip was shared on twitter Monday where Shahrukh thanked the band and the six…
Dr. M A Hasan writes for DOT The most barbarous and shameful chapter of the genocide in Bangladesh took place toward the end of the war. The main designer of the killing of intellectuals was Major General Rao Farman Ali and a few top brass of Pakistan army, including General Rahim, Brigd. Bashir, Brigd. Aslam,…
Reuters: The cancer-stricken wife of Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif died in London on Tuesday while her husband and daughter were in jail, officials said. Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif, 68, died after months in a coma. She was diagnosed with lymphoma last year, barely a month after Nawaz Sharif was removed from office by the Pakistan…