Arafat Hasan of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina revealed yesterday that the government is framing a policy for protecting the rights of the disabled, ethnic minority community and disadvantageous people in the government jobs. “It’s true that we’ve revoked quota system as movements are waged after pause of some days. So, we’re framing a policy…
Arafat Hasan of DOT BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has described Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s call for national unity as ‘all talk’ and revealed that it will “not take it into consideration.” In her speech to the nation on Friday, Hasina had called for the nation to unite in order to help transform…
Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, Professor and Founder Chair of the Department of Television, Film, and Photography, University of Dhaka : The student movement demanding the reformation of the quota system in state jobs has turned into a quagmire for the government. This movement has been shrouded in misunderstanding, miscommunication, and mishandling. Delay in…
Banglanews24: The committee of Awami League’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) is not going to be announced soon, though the 29th national conference was held, said General Secretary of BCL SM Jakir Hossain. SM Jakir Hossain came up with this announcement at the closing ceremony of the council session held in Institution of Engineers in…
Asia Times: China’s efforts to expand domestic goods into neighboring countries have taken a blockchain-based twist with the announcement that Alibaba’s Alipay is going to launch cross-border remittances between Malaysia and Pakistan. The new service allows Pakistanis living in Malaysia to send money home using the Karachi-based Telenor Microfinance Bank’s Easypaisa digital payment solution as…
Starchild Adele almst fooled all her fans when she brought up on the stage her best fan who also happens to be her doppelganger! Emily Bamforth, who visited Adele’s concert in Birmingham was loitering around being asked by many visitors if she was Adele. This pumped up her fiance’s idea to get attention of Adele….
BBC: A British hacker whose cyberattacks took the nation of Liberia offline has been jailed for almost three years. Daniel Kaye launched a series of attacks on Liberian cell phone operator Lonestar in October 2015, which became so powerful they knocked out the west African country’s internet the following year. Kaye, 30, had been…
DOT Desk The capital market ended 2018, a gloomy year for it, as the core index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) suffered a 14 per cent loss amid lack of investors’ confidence, reports The Financial Express. People familiar with the capital market said lack of investors’ confidence, fear about political turmoil, low participation of…
Desk Report: The central bank will take punitive actions against 10 private banks for failing to attain their farm loan disbursement target in the last fiscal year, reports The Daily Star. The banks are AB Bank, First Security Islami Bank, Meghna Bank, Modhumoti Bank, NCC Bank, NRB Global Bank, Shimanto Bank, South Bangla Agriculture and…
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…