Michael Goodwin/New York Post This is a golden age for cynics. You will rarely go wrong in assuming an absence of decency and courage in the political class. However low the bar is set, it will not be low enough. Witness how the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh started as cheap theater and ended in…
Hannah Storm, Director of the International News Safety Institute/ Project Syndicate Female journalists are more likely than their male counterparts to be subject to social media harassment and digital abuse. But despite real efforts to improve gender equality in the industry, one of the biggest threats women in the media face continues to be viewed…
DOT Desk Aggregate shortfall in tax revenue collection against the target widened further, marking a deficit amounting to Tk 167.99 billion in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, reports The Financial Express. The shortfall was about Tk 114 billion in the first quarter (July-September) of FY 19. According to the…
DOT Desk Members of Border Guard Bangladesh recovered firearms and gunpowder from Masudpur border in Shibganj upazila on Tuesday night, reports UNB.Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB conducted a drive in Tarapur field around 10:15 pm and challenged three people while they were trying to intrude Bangladesh from Indian border. , said…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The official death toll from Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs in the Philippines has exceeded 5,000 people, authorities have said. Philippine drug enforcement agency, PDEA’s mouthpiece Derrick Carreon referring to official figures said 5,050 lives were lost, mostly at the hands of the police, said that, according to official figures,…
Sofian Khan On monday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court directed Shawkat Chowdhury, the Jatiya Party lawmaker to pay back the 5 crore taka to Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd within 60 days as his connection with two loan scam cases involving Tk 94 crore was found.A five-member bench formed by the Appellate Division under…
M Humayun Kabir: The United Nations has appointed Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished fellow of Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), in its committee on least developed countries (LCDs). According to a press release, his appointment, on a three-year term, to UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) was made on recommendation of the Secretary General of the…
Desk Report: As traffic police continue to check fitness certificates of vehicles and other documents, many bus owners still refrain from running their vehicles on the streets in the capital, causing immense sufferings for the commuters, reports Daily Sun. Besides, CNG-run auto-rickshaws drivers are charging passengers extra fares, cashing in on the shortage of vehicles…
Abrar Hussain: Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has begun another hunger strike in prison, in protest over the recent arrest of a prominent civil rights activist as well the harassment of his and her families by security forces. She announced her hunger strike yesterday in a note posted on her husband’s Facebook page….
AFP Former US president Barack Obama took on a new high-profile role as Father Christmas on Wednesday for a surprise visit to sick children in Washington. Sporting a festive Santa hat and armed with a sack of gifts, he delighted young patients at Children’s National hospital with gifts and hugs. “I just want to say…