DOT Desk The government is likely to reduce the value-added tax (VAT) for the backward linkage of internet service providers to 5.0 per cent with a view to lowering the internet price for the end users, reports The Financial Express. “This decision has been finalised by the Finance Ministry recently and will come into effect…
Tech Explorist: The peculiar movement of gas at the galactic centre could be the smoking gun that finally leads astronomers to the most elusive type of black hole – the middleweight.Black holes are pretty hard to find unless they’re actively feeding (or colliding), since they don’t emit any electromagnetic radiation (except perhaps for Hawking radiation,…
Sayeed Muhammad: At least six people have been killed and 24 injured in separate road accidents in Brahmanbaria, Faridpur and Mymensingh yesterday, reports The Daily Star. In Brahmanbaria, a bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Sarail upazila killing three people, including a child, and injuring 20. Two of the deceased are were identified as…
Shahriar Kabir speaks to DOT : We are touring all over the country and requesting voters not to cast their votes for anti-liberation forces. We want a parliament free from any collaborator, or locally known as Rajakar. We are requesting people to cast their votes for the candidates of the pro-liberation forces. We are also…
Tariqul Islam President Md. Abdul Hamid left for the extraordinary leaders’ summit of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over the issue of Jerusalem, on Monday night. It will be held at Istanbul, the capital of Turkey. He will also meet with the foreign-affairs minister & top-delegates of each member nations in separate meetings. State Minister…
Kabir Humayun: Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has said the decision by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court offers real hope for accountability for the crimes committed against Rohingyas in Myanmar. “Although the decision does not specifically address the crime of genocide, it offers real hope for accountability for the…
Elliot Ross, Writer and researcher who recently completed his PhD in English Literature at Columbia University/Aljazeera The racist abuse suffered by Raheem Sterling on Saturday can not be blamed solely on Britain’s ‘white working class’. Over the weekend the two biggest British newspapers, the Sun and the Daily Mail, reported on the racist abuse suffered…
Shila Ahmed Kabir Our society sees women as mothers, sister, daughters; gentle beings incapable of initiating violence or harming others. The image comes from seeing women as caregivers in most of our lives. However, this widely popular mindset cannot be more wrong. Women, as individual beings, are very capable of choosing and initiating violence and…
M Humayun Kabir: Quota reform leader Lutfur Nahar Luma, who was picked up from Sirajganj in a pre-dawn raid on Wednesday, will be produced before a Dhaka court seeking five-day remand. Md Najmul Islam, additional deputy commissioner of the cyber-crime monitoring team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Star that police wants to take…
Arafat Hasan: Fisheries and Livestock Ministry officials have claimed that Bangladesh is unlikely to face any shortage of cattle during the Eid-ul-Azha this year, noting the adequate supply of locally-reared cattle enough to meet the demand of sacrificial animals. There are now 1.16 crore sacrificial animals in the country for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha against last…