A.S.M Riad Arif , Graduated from South Asian University, New Delhi: Over the last few decades, the divorce rate of Bangladesh is getting higher and now it’s an alarming situation particularly at urban middle class family. A Dhaka based Top Bengali Newspaper Prothom Alo recently reports that, ‘One divorce per hour in Dhaka’. The reports…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The World Bank will give $525 million to Bangladesh under two agreements, to be sighed today, to improve the country’s rural road transport system. Out of the total sum, the bank will provide $425 million for “Operation for Supporting Rural Bridges (SupRB)” and the rest for “Second Rural Transport Improvement Project”,…
The News Asia: Hurricane Lane drenched Hawaii on Thursday (Aug 23) ahead of its arrival in the island state, prompting US President Donald Trump to declare a state of emergency as landslides and flash flooding left roads blocked. The National Weather Service said Lane – located about 320km south of Hawaii – remained a powerful…
Russia Today: Russia, Iran and Turkey told a meeting of the Syria humanitarian taskforce on Thursday that they would do their utmost to avoid a battle that would threaten millions of civilians in rebel-held Idlib, U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said. He estimated that there were 4 million or more people in the potential battleground…
Desk Report: Rickshaw-puller Abdur Razzak was first beaten up, and two dogs were unleashed upon him on Friday night in Narayanganj, only for asking for his money back, reports Daily Star. Severely injured Razzak filed a case with the Fatullah police station yesterday, accusing one Mahbubur Rahman, 30, their guard Mahiuddin, 40, and two to…
DOT Desk: The farmers of Saturia Upazila in the district are frustrated over price fall of brinjal this season, reports The New Age. Farmers said they got bumper yield of brinjal this year due to fertile soil and favourable weather. After meeting local demand, the brinjal is being sent to other districts. Farmers alleged that…
The remarks that Myanmar’s army chief Min Aung Hlaing made, saying that refugees returning to Myanmar from Bangladesh will not be allowed to go beyond a certain region and they have to stay in ideal villages built for them—are unprecedented and unsupportive to the Rohingya rehabilitation process.His comment or stance is contradictory to the public…
Kabir Humayun: The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that granted six months bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in an arson case filed under the Special Power Act 1974 in Comilla in 2015. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed ‘‘no order’’ on a…
Prof Anu Muhammad speaks to DOT : The government’s existence lies in denying what really happened in the just-concluded 11th parliamentary elections held on December 30. Because, the government will lose its moral legitimacy if it concedes the report. AL knows it better about the TIB report since vote rigging took place under the aegis…
Abrar Hussain: After a catastrophic 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia on Sunday, rescue workers are currently searching the ruins of a mosque in Lombok in Indonesia, where it is feared that people were still trapped. As of writing this report on Tuesday, the death toll from the quake is at least 98, but officials believe…