Barrister Tureen Afroz writes for DOT : Four people have challenged the validity of the participation of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s 25 candidates in the upcoming National Election. Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Mohammad Ali’s High Court bench passed the order to Election Commission to settle the case on Tuesday (18 December 2018). In the order it was…
Dr. Maleka Banu speaks to DOT : There was a time when women were dependant on the bread-winners of the house to cast their votes. She had to vote for whomever the husband or brother chose to vote. But the situation has changed. Women are now more aware of their political and social rights. They…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, jailed while reporting on the 2017 Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, were set to appeal the decision yesterday. They were arrested in December 2017 and later sentenced to seven years in prison under the country’s Official Secrets Act, which prosecutors said was the…
Science Alert There’s no other way to say it: human hair is strange. Compared to most other mammals, human beings are decidedly naked, and the little fuzz that we do have is oddly patchy and quite diverse. The most obvious of our bizarre bald regions are perhaps the soles of our feet and the palms…
AL Jazeera Militants detonated a car bomb before storming a Kabul government compound in an ongoing attack Monday, officials and witnesses said, in the latest violence to rock the Afghan capital. A number of gunmen have entered the compound where the Ministry of Public Works and an office of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs,…
Thrive Global Some of life’s most meaningful gifts don’t come with a price tag. As so many of us are moved to give back to those in need this holiday season — but also stretched thin financially — we asked the Thrive Global contributor community to tell us their most fulfilling experiences helping others that…
Raj Ahmed of DOT Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain called out those who attempt to deprive people of their voting right as the enemies of independence and successors of Pakistan’s Yahya Khan. “People waged the Liberation War with a dream of becoming the country’s owners and enjoying the right to franchise. We’re now untied…
DOT Desk The number of schools under the general education boards with both 100 percent and zero percent pass rate in Junior School Certificate (JSC) examination has decreased than the previous year, reports The Daily Star. A total of 3,042 educational institutions achieved 100 percent pass rate this year, which was 3,559 last year. On…
NTV A Chinese pensioner has lived with a giant growth of fat around his neck and shoulders for more than two decades. Doctors believe the man’s love of alcohol is the cause of the rare condition, which has seen his neck swelling to twice its normal size. The 68-year-old man, surnamed Tan, told the Chinese…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has announced that 97.59 percent of examinees have passed this year’s Primary School Certificate (PSC) exams, while 97.69 percent have passed their Ebtedayee exams, reports bdnews24.com. A total of 368,193 students have receive a GPA 5.0 in the PSC exams, while 12,264 received…