Sayeed Muhammad of DOT British High Commissioner in Dhaka Alison Blake greatly highly lauded Bangladesh’s achievements and “amazing” development stories saying the UK will remain a partner in Bangladesh’s development journey. “I congratulated the Prime Minister (Sheikh Hasina) on Bangladesh’s achievements and the amazing development stories,” she said. Before making the comments, she sat with…
Raj Abrar: Former US President Barack Obama recently criticized his successor Donald Trump as well as the Republican party on Friday, while also urging Democrats to deliver a check on the administration’s “abuses of power” and restore a sense of sanity to politics by voting in November’s elections. In an unusually blistering verbal attack, Obama…
Reported by: Biplab Biswash Written by: Eshan Maitra Crime Investigation Division (CID) guessed that, their might had been involvement of JMB sleeper cell in the murder of Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqi. But, even after 3 years no investigation agencies could make definitive report. Hence, the judiciary process had been halted all this time. Upcoming 26th…
Mianr Al Hasan, JnU Correspondent A large number of street boys in Old Dhaka have got involved in different types of crime as criminals use them as convenient accomplices. The number of street children in this place has risen and many of them are involved in crimes, says a report prepared by welfare organization “Pather…
DOT Desk: Staff and drivers of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation’s (BRTC) Joar Sahara Depot in Dhaka went on a strike on Tuesday morning demanding arrears of nine months, reports Observer BD. The staffers of the state-run bus service also locked the depot, said the depot manager Md Noor-e-Alam. Around 120 bueses from the depot usually…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today said that there is compelling evidence that the Burmese military committed ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Rohingyas, reports The Daily Star. “Our analysis concludes there is compelling evidence that Burmese authorities have intentionally sought to destroy the Rohingyas people because…
BSS Some 400 poor but meritorious students from village level schools were given reception here for creating more inspiration among themselves towards education besides taking the literacy rate up to cherished mark. Paba Area Development Programme (ADP) of World Vision Bangladesh organized the reception and prize-giving ceremony at Shilpakala Academy auditorium in Rajshahi city yesterday….
Monzur Morshed Patwary/BRAC Asma Jannat and Munni Aktar, two classmates from Cox’s Bazaar, had to drop out of school when they were in class 8. Their families could no longer afford to keep them in school. What they faced later is a story that is all too common in South Asia – the pressure to…
Science Alert When long-dead human remains are found buried in unusual circumstances, anthropologists are usually able to piece together why. But the bones of a child that lived just a couple of hundred years ago in Poland are proving to be a bit of a head-scratcher. In a shallow grave in Tunel Wielki Cave, located…
Lawrence H Summers/ Channel NewsAsia This period of unprecedented prosperity is being threatened by a sense that not everyone benefits from global integration, says former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H Summers. Since the end of World War II, a broad consensus in support of global economic integration as a force for peace and…