the Guardian, UK: A Camero-onian opposition leader who claims he won last year’s election has been arrested. Police held Maurice Kamto and several other opposition figures. One was pulled out of his hospital bed where he was recovering from gunshot wounds sustained at a protest against the country’s longtime president, Paul Biya. Kamto was arrested…
Channel News Asia:French urban freeclim ber Alain Robert was arrested yesterday police said, after he scaled one of Manila’s tallest towers in his latest high-risk ascent. The 56-year old adventurer dubbed the “French spiderman” climbed the 47-storey GT Tower without safety equipment, leaving watchers on the ground staring in amazement. “This is my path, this…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved nine projects of Tk 16,433 crore, including a Tk 8,690-crore project to bring some 1 crore people under the electricity coverage across the country. The approval came from the 2nd ECNEC held at the NEC conference room in Dhaka its…
Arif Jebtik writes for DOT : I have found nothing to troll with the remark of Dhaka University Vice Chancellor. The university has been able to hold its attraction for decades. The DU campus can endure everything. You can have a cup of tea with light snacks at Tk 10 on the campus. In addition,…
Syed Badrul Ahsan writes for DOT : It is always important to remove misconceptions about history. Where that is not done, it is people who go through life with ideas that are wrong and indeed get to be warped at a point. That brings us to the question of how political commentators in the West…
WIO News: Popular Assamese singer Zubeen Garg has been booked for allegedly abusing the prestigious Bharat Ratna as a clip featuring his voice went viral on the net. Zubeen, of the song ‘Ya Ali’ fame from the film ‘Gansgter’ was heard in a clip allegedly abusing the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award. This, when…
AFP: A Singaporean man jailed over a multi-million-dollar fraud at a glitzy megachurch was given extra prison time Tuesday for trying to flee the country before his sentence started. In a case that gripped the city-state with a mix of religion and lavish spending, six City Harvest Church leaders were convicted in 2015 of pilfering…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Neighborhood brigades and teams of government workers hacked at fallen trees and hauled chunks of concrete out of collapsed homes Monday as the Cuban capital attempted to recover from what officials called the strongest tornado to hit Cuba in nearly 80 years, reports ABC News. Three people were dead and hundreds…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : The first session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) starts at 3 pm today. President Abdul Hamid summoned the session on January 9 exercising the power bestowed upon him as per clause (1) of article 72 of the constitution, reports BSS. The president is supposed to will deliver his speech…
Mahmudur Rahman writes for DOT : From the days of demand driven friendly private coaching to bolster inadequacies of learning the business of coaching centres has come a long way. It provides employment to otherwise unemployed youngsters and makes good, to an extent the lack of quality teaching in schools and educational institutions. These hallowed…