The Hill: The hunt for the identify of the senior administration official who penned a scathing and anonymous op-ed in The New York Times picked up steam on Thursday, as dozens of high-ranking Trump officials issued statements denying they were behind it. A day after President Trump called the op-ed describing efforts to impede some…
Afsan Chowdhury speaks to DOT : Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) can demand re-election while Awami League can dismiss it. According to the government, the 11th parliamentary elections were held in a free and fair manner. Therefore, there is no question of re-election. Now let us wait and see which way the wind blows. This is…
Eshan Maitra Believe it or not, humans are hard wired to suspect a man’s every other characteristic based their first meet. Often the guesses personifythe bases of the person’s image.But now in modern age, our identity has become more of digital than in papers. Therefore, LinkedIn profile is often required in many job applies nowadays….
Reported by: Arifur Rahman Tuhin Written by: Eshan Maitra Natural calamities and disasters have hurt the farmers & the agricultural sector the most. A possibility for food-scarcity & economical unbalance of this market had emerged. Though, governments are doing their best and took great importing initiations to sort out the, food-supply vs demand issue….
ABC News: Indian police have arrested a 48-year-old man who they say has confessed to killing 33 truck drivers and their helpers over the past decade, then selling the vehicles and the goods they were carrying. The man was arrested two weeks ago near the central town of Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state,…
DOT Desk: It has been a decade since the Awami League-led alliance came to power with a promise to build a highly digitized nation, labeled as ‘Digital Bangladesh’, by the year 2021, reports The Financial Express. Now that the same alliance is taking over the reins for the third consecutive term, leaders within the ICT…
Reuters: Cambodia’s long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen, 65, whose party claimed victory in a general election that many have said was neither free nor fair, met with supporters for the first time since the vote on Wednesday. The former Khmer Rouge commander, who has ruled Cambodia for nearly 33 years, took ‘selfies’ with supporters and enjoyed…
Ishra Chowdhury It seems… It seems, 2016 has entered the warped world of George Orwell’s 1984, a book written in the late, late 40’s about government surveillance, censorship, “democratic” dictatorship and espionage; to put it mildly. Devastatingly portraying a brutal parallel in the current tensions globally, and most recently domestically here in Bangladesh. In the…
A.S.M Riad Arif writes for DOT : Though we are living at the very high age of civilization states are remain passive for ensuring the rights of the minority and ethnic populace. The ethnic’s communities are oppressed by the Nation state all around the globe. The psychology of the state has yet not ready to…
Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst/ CNN I ran into a senior Democrat in the US House of Representatives while traveling Thursday night. After introducing myself and telling this member about my work as a political analyst and historian, this person asked me the question that seems to be on almost everyone’s mind: Is it time…