AFP: More than one thousand tourists were being evacuated from Indonesia’s tiny Gili islands on Monday after a powerful quake struck neighbouring Lombok, killing 91 people and injuring hundreds. The Gilis are three coral-fringed tropical islands popular with backpackers and divers, a few kilometres off the northwest coast of the larger Lombok island. Footage posted…
Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla/Gulf News Bangladesh, a country ranked 138th by the UN Development Index.Dhaka, a city marked as the second most unliveable in the world.Bangladesh, ranked the world’s 19th most stressed country.Dhaka, Asia’s most stressed city. A city and country scarred with daily stressors that beat down hearts, plunging the nation to 104th spot on the…
Desk Report: The government has abandoned the contingency coal import plan lingering the northern region’s grapple with power woes, reports The Financial Express. Higher import costs and restart of coal extraction from the Barapukuria underground coalmine led the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) to abandon the coal import plan, a senior BPDB official told…
Fadwa Mahmoud/Aljazeera Tens of thousands of forcibly disappeared continue to languish in al-Assad’s prisons. It is very painful for me to talk about my story, though it is one shared by many, many Syrians. In 2012, my 34-year-old son Maher Tahan went to Damascus airport to pick up my husband, Abdulaziz Al Kheir. Abdulaziz, who…
Eurek Alert: Plants don’t need noses to smell. The ability is in their genes. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered the first steps of how information from odor molecules changes gene expression in plants. Manipulating plants’ odor detection systems may lead to new ways of influencing plant behavior. The discovery is the first…
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…
Kabir Humayun: Shus-hashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a civil society platform, blasted the Election Commission (EC) for sending the proposal hurriedly to the government to use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the upcoming national polls. “The Election Commission is working like a rocket to include EVM system in the RPO,” said Shujan President M Hafizuddin Khan….
Prof Dr Tajul Islam speaks to DOT : People commit most hideous act like rape in a bid to show their personal power. There are different types of power; physical, political and financial. Whenever a person realizes that he possesses much power then he commits such heinous act. We see that the victims of rape…
Kazi Reazul Hoque, Chairman, National Human Rights Commission: The killings of Cox’s Bazar municipal councilor or others need to be probed by a judicial magistrate, to unearth the truth. When neither police nor RAB are given the right to kill in an extrajudicial manner, the state too has to have the legal ground to take…