Hossen Sohel of DOT A bipartisan group of US senators on Wednesday called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to designate the Myanmar military’s campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority a genocide, reports Reuters. More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state for neighboring Bangladesh since August last year, when attacks on security posts…
Science Alert The stomachs of other animals in the same suborder probably wouldn’t occur to most people as a place to find a new species, but that’s exactly where one has turned up. In the guts of a Central American coral snake (Micrurus nigrocinctus), herpetologists have found the remains of a snake unknown to science….
DOT Desk Today marks the 28th death anniversary of eminent playback singer, Mahmud Un Nabi. Born on December 16, 1936, he started his musical career during the 60s and went on to win the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the film The Rain (1976), reports the Daily Star. Mahmud Un Nabi…
DOT Desk Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain is set to perform at a concert called Shakti in Dhaka this February, along with world-renowned artistes, John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Ganesh Rajagopalan and V Selvaganesh. Blues Communications is organising the concert that will be held on February 28 at Dhaka’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. “We are hoping…
Osamah Al-Rawhani, Yemeni researcher based in the UK and Program Director of Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies/Aljazeera The Stockholm Agreement marks a much-needed breakthrough on Yemen, but there are major issues with its provisions. More than two years after talks between the internationally recognised Yemeni government and the armed Houthi movement collapsed in Kuwait, the…
DOT Desk The securities regulator has extended the timeframe till December 31, 2020 for keeping provision against unrealised losses in margin accounts of stock dealers’ and stock brokers’ clients. The unrealised losses took place due to revaluation of portfolios of the merchant banks and stock dealers and their clients, reports the Financial Express BD. The…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin yesterday said a decision on the candidacy of 25 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders would be made by Tuesday, reports The Daily Star. “We got the High Court letter today. The legal wing of the Election Commission has been asked to scrutinise the matter,” he told The Daily Star….
DOT Desk Akhaura Chhatra Dal president Al Amin Molla has been expelled for violating party discipline and for his ‘entente with the ruling party’, reports the Daily Observer BD. A press release, issued by Brahmanbaria district JCD president Sheikh M Hafiz Ullah and general secretary Rubel Fuzayel, said the decision effect from December 9. was…
Congress.Gov Whereas Bangladesh achieved independence in 1971 and established a secular democratic state, which is home to Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and atheists; Whereas Bangladesh is the eighth most populous country with nearly 160,000,000 people; Whereas according to the United States Agency for International Development maternal and child mortality rates in Bangladesh have declined by…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A High Court bench yesterday refused to hear a writ petition challenging the legality of the schedule for the 11th parliamentary election slated for December 30, reports The Daily Star. The bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice Razik-Al Jalil also dropped the petition from the hearing list saying that…