BBC: An Australian TV network has said it was “wrong” to interview a far-right figure with a criminal past, after the segment set off a widespread backlash. Blair Cottrell appeared in a one-on-one studio interview on Sky News Australia on Sunday to speak about immigration. Viewers pointed out that Cottrell was last year convicted of…
Reported by: Faridunnahar Laili Written by: Eshan Maitra During his time as the Prime Minister, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman urged everyone to cultivate crops on every piece of land available. He also changed the tradition of single-crop lands in the 70’s. This encouraged and revolutionized the agricultural tradition in Bangladesh. Also cantonment lands were voluntarily…
DOT Desk Bangladesh High Commission in Abuja, Nigeria is participating in the Asian Film Festival for the first time which will continue until 14 December, reports The Prothom Alo. Ten countries, including Bangladesh, are participating in the festival, formally inaugurated on 10 December, at the Korean Cultural Centre, Abuja. It marks the second yearly gala…
Desk Report The government’s oil import bill is set to jump 36 percent this fiscal year thanks to the appreciation of the dollar and an increase in global oil prices — a development that can lead to a hike in oil prices in the local market, officials said. In fiscal 2018-19, 75 lakh tonnes of…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed Rabindranath Tagore is the greatest literary genius of Bengali literature. He had a vast knowledge in all the branches of literature, but he is familiar to as a great poet. He was awarded Noble prize in 1913 for ‘song offerings’ (Gitangali). Not only the Bengali readers enjoy his poems and songs…
DOT Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation today highlighting her government’s mission and vision to ensure the country’s overall peace and progress, reports The Daily Star. The PM’s speech will simultaneously be broadcast by Bangladesh Television, Bangladesh Betar as well as private TV channels and radio stations around 7:30pm, said an official…
John Harris, Guardian columnist/The Guardian,UK Squeezed between Brexiteer and Corbynite tribes, a true national conversation seems impossible. But there is a way forward The autumn is coming, though it might be better to adopt American English, and think of it as the fall: out of the languid, heady days of summer, and back into the…
Prof Abu Ahmed speaks to DOT : The growth of Bangladesh will go from strength to strength. There is no reason to falter the growth. However, the IMF’s account is not intelligible. Bangladesh is one of the countries, which are doing well in the world economy. It is a positive aspect for us. However, a…
AP, Kabul A notorious Afghan warlord who lives in hiding has dropped a key condition for ending his war of more than 40 years with Kabul, an associate said Tuesday. According to Amin Karim, an official of the Hezb-i-Islami Party, the party’s leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is no longer demanding that all foreign troops leave Afghanistan….
Eshan Maitra Election Commission did not need find the necessity for changing the electoral borders for upcoming parliamentary election. This is nothing uncommon. Even after Census of Population in 1991, border rearrangement did not took place for 3 parliamentary election later on. Primarily changes in population of an area rearranges the number of parliamentary seats….