Myisha Nawar Maria Qamar grew up in Pakistan where women would routinely apply Fair and Lovely to ‘whiten’ their skin. With her fair complexion, big brown eyes and shiny hazel hair, she would be told that it would do wonders for her skin. Oh my! Hey, it happens here in Bangladesh too! If it’s not…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra Street Child Banking was initiated for encouraging the working & street-children into saving their money. Unfortunately, in past 2 years, the system were unable to represent any remarkable outcome. Only 3 books were opened in first 3 months of this year. Only 3, 675 accounts…
Sejuti Mourin: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained a Police SI along with 30,000 Yaba pills at Mirsharai upazila of Chattogram yesterday morning. The detained Abul Basher, son of Abdul Hamid of Cumilla, is the member of Brahmanbaria Detective Branch of police, reported the Daily Observer. Md Nuruzzaman, assistant superintendent of Chattogram RAB-7, said…
Desk report: Thousands of customers queuing to buy advance tickets for Eid journeys home are facing difficulties after internet problems interrupted sales, reports the financial express. Ticket sales were interrupted for over one-and-a-half hours at Dhaka’s Kamalapur Railway Station on Saturday, the fourth day of advance ticket sales. Ticket sales were also interrupted for over…
Abrar Hussain: Trans-parency International Bangladesh (TIB) has discovered conflict of interest regarding several ministers holding important public office and simultaneously remaining engaged in transport business. “Government has to understand that business and administrative duty cannot function together and there are some ministers in the country who have transport business and at the same time they…
Tara Sattar The news comes after the much discussed duo celebrated their one year anniversary in a tropical vacation this March, yes, Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris have ended their romance, reports hollywoodlife.com. Swift, 26 and Harris, 32 have been reported to have officially ended their 15 month long relation and have parted ways. This…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : A plane with 30 Russian children, who had been kept in a Baghdad prison together with their Islamic State (IS)-linked mothers, landed in Moscow. Some of the children are as young as three years old, reports RT news. Flying from Baghdad to Moscow were 16 girls and 14 boys, who…
DOT Desk: Four supporters of the Jatiya Oikya Front’s candidate in Jhenaidah 3 constituency have been hacked with sharp weapons during an attack on them reportedly carried out by ruling party men at Kotchandpur upazila, reports The Dhaka Tribune. Three of them are in critical condition and currently undergoing treatment at Jessore Medical College Hospital…
Assume, you are eating in a restaurant and suddenly the waiter comes and says, “I’m gonna ask you a question. If your answer is satisfactory, you do not have to pay the bill.” His behaviour may astonish you. But, I think I would like to hear the question. Let’s assume you want to hear…
John Mcbeth/Asia Times Eighty million millennials will be eligible to vote in Indonesia’s April 17 elections, a massive bloc that could carry the day if they really cared For a fleeting moment, before elder politicians started trading barbs at last week’s first presidential election debate, 49-year-old business entrepreneur Sandiaga Uno gave Indonesian voters a glimpse…