AFP New York state authorities on Thursday announced a lawsuit against retail giants Walmart and Target for selling Chinese-made toys that had up to 10 times the legal limit of lead. The lawsuit seeks up to $6,000 in penalties for each of the thousands of Cra-Z-Jewelz jewelry kits the retailers and importer LaRose Industries sold…
Tech Explorist Launched on Aug. 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. It then started collecting data in earnest on Aug. 27, 2016. During these flybys, Juno’s suite of sensitive science instruments probes beneath the planet’s obscuring cloud cover and studies Jupiter’s auroras to learn more…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Human Rights Watch has urged the international community to press the government of Bangladesh to create conditions conducive to a free and fair national election slated for December 30, reports The Daily Star. “The United Nations, European Union, United States, India, China, and others should press the government of Prime Minister…
DOT Desk The nation is set to celebrate the Victory Day tomorrow (December 16), marking the most precious day when the country was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces after a nine-month-long bloodstained War of Liberation. Forty-six years back on December 16 in 1971, Bangladesh was born as an independent country under the leadership of the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Ohid Sarder prises a rusted nail from a tree and drops it into his bucket, another eyesore scrubbed from the countryside as he embarks on a one-man mission to clean up Bangladesh, reports AFP. The 53-year-old self-professed tree hugger has been riding his bicycle across the country, in a grassroots effort…
Maj Gen (Retd.) Abdur Rashid Speaks for DOT Jatiya Party (JaPa) is fielding its own candidates in some constituencies, even after negotiations with the Awami League-led Grand Alliance over seat-sharing ahead of the general elections. It is not a pleasant matter to go against decision of the alliance and it causes an image deficit. JaPa…
Sayeed Muhammad Celebrated filmmaker Amjad Hossain breathed his last at a Bangkok hospital yesterday, at the age of 76. He was declared dead around 3pm Bangladesh time, reporters The Daily Star referring to SA Haque Alik, general secretary of Directors’ Guild of Bangladesh. Amjad was flown off to Bangkok on November 28 and admitted to…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT Demanding necessary reforms in procedural and substantive areas of rape law to ensure inclusive justice for rape survivors, experts commented on country’s existing rape law. Sara Hossain, Advocate of Bangladesh Supreme Court- “Both compensation and punitive measures should be kept in the laws for addressing rape offences. The redress given…
ABC Thirteen young miners were missing and feared dead following the collapse of a shaft and flooding of a coal mine they were illegally digging in India’s remote northeast, police said on Friday. Efforts were being made to pump out water from the mine in Meghalaya state, which was flooded on Wednesday, police said. The…
Raj Abrar of DOT South Africans are outraged after a recent speech by a local revolutionary socialist politician who called upon his followers to kill white people, including women, children, and even pets owned by whites. Andile Mngxitama, the leader and founder of pan-Africanist political party Black First Land First (BLF), has been repeatedly heard…