Samiul Bashar Samin It is a familiar story. A superpower goes to war and faces a stronger-than-expected insurgency in distant lands, yet has insufficient forces to counter it because of political and military constraints. The superpower decides to hire contractors, some of whom are armed, to support its war effort. The armed contractors prove to…
Tara Sattar Evidence that might be missing from the history textbooks suggest that the Roamn Empire’s dominance rose due to a series of volcanic eruptions. Sounds weird? According to the teamwork carried out by vocanologists and historians, the time of the volcanic eruptions match with the time of the attacks and conjugal unrest. That period…
Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua, Advocate, Supreme Court: Lawyers have agreed to provide legal aid for the quota reform activists. This is no big deal, nor are we heroes. We are some ordinary people who have agreed on serving our professional responsibility. According to the constitution, every single person has the right to receive legal aid. The…
Abrar Hussain: Phili-ppine President Rodrigo Duterte has apologized to former United States President Barack Obama for calling him a “son of a whore” in 2016, which sparked a new low between the two nations’ long standing alliance. Duterte had lobbed the insult in response to steady criticism from the United States over his violent drug…
Jafar Ahmed Only 113 crores taka was collected at only two venues, in the first Bangladesh Tax Fair in 2010. But 8 years later, total of 2,217.33 crores taka was collected in 167 venues countrywide. Even, income tax submission has increased by 72.40% and 25.89% more general public voluntarily sought for related public services this…
The USA Today: A strong aftershock has shaken the island of Lombok where tens of thousands of people are homeless after a powerful earthquake. School children in Bali could be seen fleeing their classrooms as the island felt the tremor from neighboring Lombok. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – The death toll from the earthquake that…
Advocate Kamrun Nahar speaks to DOT : Nine people have been sued over the gang rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila on Monday. But the list of the accused did not include the name of a former union parishad member who, according to the victim, allegedly ordered his men to rape her for…
Desk Report: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the fresh enlistment of educational institutions under Monthly Payment Order (MPO) facility will be finalised by next month, reports the daily star. In reply to a supplementary question of ruling Awami League lawmaker AKM Jahangir Hossain at the parliament, the minister said, Finance Minister AMA Muhith…
The Guardian, UK: More than six million workers are worried their jobs could be replaced by machines over the next decade, according to a report urging trade unions and the government to provide more support for those at risk. The findings come as Yvette Cooper, the Labour chair of the Commons home affairs select committee,…
UNB A newly sworn-in police officer on her first shift with her Virginia department was shot and killed Saturday and two of her colleagues were wounded in a confrontation stemming from a call about an argument. Officers received a call around 5:30 Saturday evening in Woodbridge, about 30 miles southwest of the nation’s capital,…