BDnews24 The five-year ASTHA- Strengthening Access to Multi-Sectoral Public Services for Gender Based Violence Survivors in Bangladesh – project is aimed at increasing access of the vulnerable women and girls, who are at risk or survivor of gender-based violence, to multi-sectoral public services. The project with the support of the UNFPA and the Netherlands aims…
DOT Desk ‘Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale’, a docu-drama based on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina – the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is all set for its world television (TV) premiere on December 15, reports The Independent. Three prominent channels of the country, Channel i, Maasranga TV and GTV will telecast the docu-drama at 3pm…
DOT Desk Agora, the first retail chain in Bangladesh, is going to invest $10 million in the next two years to double the number of its outlets to cater to the growing demand of city dwellers, said its top executive, reports The Daily Star. Farhad Ahmad, chief executive officer of Rahimafrooz Superstores Ltd. said the…
UNB China has opened its doors for Bangladeshi citizens to get affordable and quality medical treatment in an effort to further boost people-to-people contacts between Bangladesh and China. Chinese Embassy in Dhaka will offer medical visa for Bangladeshi citizens to avail “high quality and reliable treatment” in China. These were revealed at a function in…
DOT Desk ‘Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale’, a docu-drama based on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina – the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is all set for its world television (TV) premiere on December 15, reports The Independent. Three prominent channels of the country, Channel i, Maasranga TV and GTV will telecast the docu-drama at 3pm…
BSS The national flag will be hoisted atop all government, semi-government, autonomous, private buildings as well as diplomatic missions abroad as part of the Victory Day celebration programme on December 16. According to the Bangladesh Constitution, the national flag shall consist of a circle, coloured red throughout its area, resting on a green background, said…
UNB Carers Worldwide, a charity based in Welwyn Garden City, has been awarded £50,000 by the UK Government to support their new project in Bangladesh. This project aims to change the lives of 500 carers and their family members by providing funding to help them. Carers Worldwide was founded by married couple, Ruth and Anil…
UNB A Bangladeshi student has won the first prize in the “Kids for Human Rights” international drawing competition. Sixth-grader Saied Muhammad Zareef Saleh secured the top prize in the “How I can defend or promote human rights” category. The 12-year-old is a student at Scholastica School in Dhaka’s Uttara. Eight other young creative artists from…
Tim Steel writes for DOT We learn, many of us, at school, first to cope with the bullies and the braggers, and then, if we have any empathy, to learn that these unpleasant behavioural characteristics are, invariably, those of the more deeply insecure. And so, we find, it is, also, with groups of people…even entire…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Former personal lawyer for US President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to a total of three years in prison on Wednesday for his role in making illegal hush-money payments to women to help Trump’s 2016 election campaign and lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia. US…