Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy Director General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy : In the 21st century, human civilization has reached the pinnacle of glory in science and technology. Scientists discovered the truth about atoms; man landed on the moon and man-made satellites are rocketing in the far sky and around the universe. Scientists…
Dr Maleka Banu speaks to DOT : We have talked to the concerned ministry about stopping torture on female migrant workers. We have also placed our recommendations in this regard. We have also talked to the High Commission for enhancing language proficiency and job training prior to sending them abroad. The female migrant workers should…
Hossen Sohel: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia declared traffic week throughout the country from today. Thanking the students for their initiative to maintain and regulating traffic rules, DMP chief said that from today traffic week will begin and requested the students to go back to their studies. “From now on police will maintain…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles by a leading American research institution, following his controversial conclusions linking race and intelligence, reports RT.com.James Watson, 99, who served half a century service to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, lost all of his honorary titles of Chancellor Emeritus,…
Sofian Khan: Describing the arson attacks by BNP-Jamaat clique in recent past as terrorist acts, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she doesn’t want the recurrence of such evil deeds in the country anymore.”We don’t want such terrorist acts to occur again…these are absolutely terrorist acts…we want peace in the country,” she said at a…
Sayeed Muhammad: The Bangladesh delegation to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) failed to respond to pressing human rights concerns in the country, according a latest release of the Human Rights Watch (HRW). Law Minister Anisul Huq, representing the government, highlighted only what it considered to be positive steps and glossed over concerns about critical issues…
Hindustan Times: Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in a new book that there are tapes of President Donald Trump using racial slurs and that she saw him behaving “like a dog off the leash” at numerous events he attended without his wife, first lady Melania Trump. The accusations are among a long…
Kabir Humayun Barrister Nazmul Huda, former BNP minister, has filed a case against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha. Maruf Hossain Sarder, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), told The Daily Star yesterday afternoon that Sinha was sued by former communication minister Huda with Shahbagh Police Station. The police official, however, did not…
Reuters: The bodies of 21 people thought to be migrants trying to reach Spain have washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean this month, the U.N. migration agency said in statement on Friday. The latest deaths bring the total of Mediterranean migrant deaths this year to 1,586, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said….
MEMO: The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, cancelled a planned visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for yesterday as a result of Israel’s renewed air strikes on the besieged Strip. The UN peace envoy said in a statement yesterday morning that he was “deeply alarmed by the recent…