Yascha Mounk, Lecturer on government at Harvard University & Jordan Kyle, Senior fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change/The Atlantic According to our research, populist governments have deepened corruption, eroded individual rights, and inflicted serious damage on democratic institutions. When Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election in October to the consternation of the…
Arafat Hasan of DOT With just 3 days remaining till the election, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has announced to step out of the race for the Dhaka-17 constituency. Instead, he will be extending support to the ruling Awami League candidate, ex-film star Akbar Hossain Pathan, more popularly known as Farooque, reported The Daily Star,…
Rebecca Stead/Middle East Monitor What: Israel waged a three-week military offensive against the Gaza Strip, killing almost 1,400 Palestinians and wounding thousands more. Where: The Gaza Strip When: 27 Dec 2008 – 18 Jan 2009 What happened? On 27 December 2008, Israel launched a massive military offensive against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The High Court has issued a rule asking why the decision to allow leaders from the Jamaat-e-Islami party, which had its registration as a political party scrapped, to compete in the 11th national parliamentary election should not be declared illegal, reports bdnews24.com. However, as the court has not stayed the Election…
Éloi Laurent, Senior research fellow at the Sciences Po Centre for Economic Research (OFCE)/Project Syndicate On the 40th anniversary of China’s great “opening up” under Deng Xiaoping, its leaders deserve praise for lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and surpassing the United States as the world’s largest economy. But China’s experience has…
Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University/The Conversation, Australia Our senses are stuck in the past. There’s a flash of lightning, and then seconds pass until we hear the rumble of distant thunder. We hear the past.We are seeing into the past too.While sound travels about a kilometre every three seconds, light…
Raj Ahmed of DOT Police have detained three leaders of Awami League’s associate wings over Tuesday’s attack on BNP leader Goyeshwar Chandra Roy during an election rally in Dhaka. They were picked up in a drive carried out on a tip-off on Wednesday night, reported Banglanews, quoting South Keraniganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Shahjahan….
Hossen Sohel of DOT Bangladesh Bank has instructed banks to keep adequate cash in ATM machines during the national elections to be held on December 30, reports The Daily Star. The central bank issued a circular in this regard yesterday, undersigned by Bangladesh Bank’s General Manager Leela Rashid. The circular has also instructed banks to…
DOT Desk Indian northeast state of Tripura is planning to export tea to Bangladesh through participating in the auction at Sreemangal in Sylhet, according to a report published in an Indian daily, reports The Financial Express. Chairman of Tripura Tea Development Corporation Ltd (TTDC) Santosh Saha.The Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has also taken up…
DOT Desk Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has barred foreign mobile handset brands from manufacturing their products in the factories of local handset manufacturing companies, reports The New Age. To this end, the telecom regulator amended its guidelines on setting up local handset manufacturing and assembling plants at a recent meeting of the commission, a senior…