Arafat Hasan of DOT : The High Court (HC) is set to deliver its order on three writ petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the Election Commission’s order that upheld the returning officers’ decision rejecting her nomination papers. The HC bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir fixed the…
Tasmiah Nuhiah Ahmed of DOT : Human Rights Day is globally observed every year on 10 December. It remembers the day on which, back in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); as a response to the atrocities during the Second World War. In 1950, the Assembly passed…
The Star : Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has been arrested by graft investigators over the “tampering” of the 1MDB final audit report. The former prime minister, was arrested around 11am at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission headquarters here, minutes after he arrived for a fresh round of questioning over the issue. Najib was seen entering…
A.S.M Riad Arif writes for DOT : The practice of caste and work-based degradation is very common in contemporary Bangladeshi society. The low caste and the Dalit community have to face discrimination at all grounds.. The nature and the concept of untouchable in the eyes of the majority of the population have restricted them to…
Al Jazeera : Israeli forces deployed along the fence that separates Israel from the Gaza Strip have fired live rounds at rock-throwing Palestinian protesters ever since demonstrations demanding the right to return began in March. And for eight months, Israeli snipers have targeted one part of the body more than any other – the legs….
Reuters : U.S. President Donald Trump has backed plans to request $750 billion (£589.4 billion) from Congress for defence spending next year, a U.S. official said on Sunday, signalling a Pentagon spending hike at a time of potential belt-tightening elsewhere in the government. Trump, faced with a budget deficit at a six-year high, told his…
Labib Murshed writes for DOT : The 2018 G20 Summit of the 20 largest economic powers of the world (19 counties and the European Union) put its denouement on Saturday, December 1, 2018 in Argentina. Due to the onging tensed international incidents all the eyes were in this summit – from the US-China trade war and…
Dr. Mizanur Rahman speaks to DOT : Giving 132 seats to the Jatiya Party candidates will not hurt the Awami League in any way. The Plow and the Paddy have the same voters. Plow voters believe in religion-politics, anti-India and state-religion Islam politics. These are the ideals of BNP and Jatiya Party. If votes are…
Prof Anu Muhammad speaks to DOT : The Election Commi-ssion has no challenges but responsibilities. The EC is a constitutional body and it is constitutionally empowered with holding free and credible elections. So, the EC is responsible to hold free and far polls. Now it remains to be seen if the EC can discharge its…
Fahmida Khatun writes for DOT : The banking sector of Bangladesh has expanded over the years in terms of number of formal institutions, higher number of financing instruments and bigger volumes of assets. However, the sector has been facing a number of serious challenges due to malpractices, scams and heists. These have affected the overall…