Jessica Powell, Formar head of communications for Google/New York Times The decision has taken away an essential platform for some women and members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community. This week, the social networking site Tumblr banned the very thing that drove many people to its site: adult content. Many cheered that Tumblr had finally caught up…
Chiroranjan Sarker, Columnist/ BDnews24 George Bernard Shaw was once asked: “What is the most beautiful thing in the world?” He replied, “Youth — and what a pity it is wasted on the young.” Yet, after being dormant politically for decades, young people are starting to make their presence felt again. We are living in a…
Shira Ovide/Bloomberg Internal emails show Facebook’s CEO is much different from the image he would like to portray. Lawmakers in the United Kingdom on Wednesday released a trove of Facebook Inc. documents that provide an intriguing glimpse inside the company — and obliterate any remaining notions of its chief executive officer as an innocent babe…
David A. Andelman/Reuters Nicole Barthelemy, the quiet, gracious owner of one of Paris’s premier cheese shops on the Rue de Grenelle, told me this week, with real panic in her eyes, “I have never in 47 years been so afraid as I am today.” And with good reason. Only a few blocks away, on the…
Nairita Mukherjee/Daily O, India PS. Someone in Priyanka’s ‘team’ should be fired for letting go of Tom Hiddleston, don’t you think? Last evening, one Mariah Smith became the Internet’s spittoon for the opinion piece she wrote for The Cut. ‘Is Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’ Love For Real?’ read the headline, and given the sheer…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Ruling Awami League (AL) finally announced its candidatures for 240 constituencies for contesting in the upcoming general election, reports The Daily Star. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader declared it formally at the party chief’s Dhanmondi office yesterday. “We have left 60 seats for our alliance partners,” Obaidul told reporters….
Mahmudur Rahman writes for DOT : More often than not the government gets hammered for not being able to provide enough jobs to meet the rapid turnout of able handed and educated (sic) workforce every year. The figures are arguable but unemployment is significant enough to be of concern for social scientists as idle m)nds…
Shahriar Kabir speaks to DOT : Bangladesh will be in a state of total chaos if BNP-Jamaat could come to power. Killing-torture will descend on all the people of the country. The BNP-Jamaat government will torture the minority communities. BNP-Jamaat unleashed a reign of terror ahead of parliamentary elections in 2001. 1500 women were raped…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT : It was back in 1995, I was admitted in class one of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College (VNSC). Prior to this admission, I had to sit for a test where approximately 10,000 students participated, if I’m not wrong. Among them, only 500 students were selected. That was quite a…
Muhammad Zubair writes for DOT : The Parliament of Bangladesh is the supreme authority to pass a legislation, which derives its authority from the Constitution. It may delegate its legislating power to any other body. Thus, the members of parliament are regarded as the ‘Law Maker’ of the Republic. It is desirable that the persons…