DOT Desk: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir should resign from his party shouldering the responsibility for the failures both in the movement and the election, reports The Daily Star. “As a secretary general he couldn’t carry out a movement for 10 minutes over the last…
Desk Report: Experts at a dialogue have laid emphasis on transparency, accountability and government mechanism to help ensure best use of climate change resilience fund, reports The Financial Express. They also called for ensuring data openness of various programmes under such fund, providing strong monitoring and evaluation system and forming a multi-stakeholder forum in this…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday reiterated his stance saying there is no scope for dialogue with the opposition parties who are demanding for a fresh election under a nonpartisan caretaker government, reports The Daily Star. Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said this while talking to media…
Forqan Uddin Ahmed 21 February is being observed globally as the International Mother Language Day. The decision was proclaimed at the 30th General Conference of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held from 26 October to 17 November 1999 in Paris. UNESCO considered the threat to linguistic diversity posed by the globalization…
UNB: Bangladesh Volleyball Federation (BVF) announced a 21-member final squad of Bangladesh team for the 1st Asian Challenge Cup Men’s Volleyball scheduled for September 15-22 in Sri Lanka capital Colombo. Bangladesh team comprises 14 players and seven officials. Members of Bangladesh team: M. Rashed Khan Menon, M. Sazibur Rahman, M Mohasin Uddin, Narayon Debnath, Masud…
Hossen Sohel: Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque reiterated that the repatriation issue in any country is a very ‘complex and difficult’ issue which cannot be done overnight. “They (Myanmar) have shown what preparations they’ve taken so for taking Rohingyas back from Bangladesh. I would say something is done,” he said while responding to a UNB…
Tara Sattar The Wave is a Norwegian movie that shows the disaster caused by natural calamities. The story does not portray the irrational heroes trying to save the world, rather the humans stuck in the natural calamities make a quick life and death decision. The movie stars Kristoffer Joner who plays a geologist who is…
Mamun Khan: On Monday the first investigating officer Amir Hossain, then SI gave testimony as 223rd witness in cases filled over the 21 August grenade attack. Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1’s Judge Shahed Nuruddin recorded the statement. Amir Hossain was appointed as the first investigating officer on 22 August, a day after the deadly attack…
Sayeed Muhammad: Yet another nine people have been killed in so called gunfights across the country, raising the tally of the people subjected to shootout deaths to 35 in last five days. Law-enforcement agencies said they engaged in gun battles with the people, all drug traffickers, in eight districts overnight yesterday, BDnews24.com. Two people have been…
Sofian Khan The UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights situation in Myanmar, is scheduled to visit Bangladesh and Thailand from January 18, promising to fulfil her mandate even after the Burmese government’s refusal to work with the UN official.“I am determined to carry on – to the best of my ability – this very…