Hossen Sohel of DOT The BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami have adopted lies and violence as voters have rejected them in the election, says the Awami League, reports bdnews24.com. “The BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami alliance realised their defeat is confirmed and are therefore choosing terror and violence. At least five leaders and activists of the Awami League have…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Myanmar’s government says it has ordered the military to “crush” rebels in the Rakhine state, after raids by insurgents killed 13 police officers earlier this month. The UN says fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army forced about 5,000 people from their homes in the state in the past month,…
BSS: The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) is planning to hand over industrial plots to the investors in Mirsarai Economic Zone (EZ) after few months. BEPZA General Manager Nazma Binte Alamgir said road development works of the economic zone are going on and earth filling works will start soon. “After making the EZ suitable…
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury writes for DOT : Newly elected members of the 11thparliament but those elected MPs of BNP-led Jatiyo Oikya Front (National Unity Movement) have already taken oath. Jatiyo Party, coalition partner of the Awami League–led Grand Alliance has “unanimously” decided to be once again a part of the new government. Co-chairman of…
Eurek Alert Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London. In order to understand how bees count, the researchers simulated a very simple miniature ‘brain’ on a computer with just four nerve cells – far fewer than…
UNB: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Bangladesh signed a financing agreement to significantly increase incomes and food and nutrition security for 250,000 rural households in southern Bangladesh where the highest percentage of rural poor reside. The agreement for the Smallholder Agricultural Competitiveness Project (SACP) was signed by Gilbert F Houngbo, President of…
Marilyn Thipthorpe There are times we fake our confidence in order to show people we are comfortable or know what we are doing. This could be ok in certain situations, in fact it is encouraged as when you believe you can do something then you actually can. But what happens when a person is not…
Sayeed Muhammad: A probable Syrian government offensive against rebels in Idlib province may displace over 700,000 people, far more than were uprooted in a recent battle in the southwest of Syria, feared a UN-led group of health agencies. In a monthly report the group said many of Syria’s battles have ended with agreements for fighters…
Tarannum Sattar Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested. – Octavia E. Butler The message read: “Despite of being a feminist, how could…