BDnews24 The five-year ASTHA- Strengthening Access to Multi-Sectoral Public Services for Gender Based Violence Survivors in Bangladesh – project is aimed at increasing access of the vulnerable women and girls, who are at risk or survivor of gender-based violence, to multi-sectoral public services. The project with the support of the UNFPA and the Netherlands aims…
AFP: Stone-throwing, insults and dangerous maneuvers on the high seas: French and British fishermen clashed in the English Channel over a hoard of scallops Tuesday, the latest flare-up in a years-long war over the prized shellfish. The British were heavily outnumbered at five boats to around 35 French vessels, according to maritime official Ingrid Parot,…
Anadolu Agency: A Syrian Turkmen commander said the Assad regime has kept at least 500,000 people in prisons. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Turkmen Mountain region’s 3rd Coastal Armed Division Commander Tarik Solak recalled his two-and-a-half-year ordeal of captivity in the regime’s notorious Saydnaya Prison in capital Damascus. “Around 4,000 people are held hostage at Saydnaya…
DOT Desk Tangail 4 constituency independent candidate Abdul Latif Siddique is being transferred from Tangail General Hospital to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital in Dhaka’s Shahbagh area reports Dhaka Tribune. The matter was confirmed by Tangail Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sayedur Rahman. Earlier, around 9:10am Wednesday, Latif was taken to Tangail General…
Abrar Hussain Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid last week urged students to acquire knowledge through modern education to keep up with the evolving job markets. “It is urgent to prepare curriculum incorporating ICT to make the students efficient workforces,” he told the 19th of convocation of Independent University at Bashundhara in Dhaka. Speaking on the occasion…
Dr. Syed Anwar Hossain, Historian and Professor, Dhaka University : There is lack of good governance in spending what is allotted in the budget for the education sector. There is no accountability in the education ministry. The country’s education ministry and education sector are the most corrupt of them all. The government uses the taxpayers’ money…
DOT Desk: The new Internal Credit Risk Rating System (ICRRS) rolled out by Bangladesh Bank will help strengthen the risk management practices of banks and rein in bad loans, expect economists and bankers, reports The Daily Sun. They say the new rating system will help banks review the previous performance of a credit holder automatically…
Eshan Maitra France has banned all the supermarkets from throwing away or spoiling unsold food by law. The law was voted unanimously by the French senate last week. Petition was launched by Courbevoie councilor Arash Derambarsh. Till now, supermarkets usually poured bleach over the discarded food. The reason for this was also to food diversity…
DOT Desk Theatre troupe Prachyanat will stage their much-acclaimed production ‘Circus Circus’, written and directed by Azad Abul Kalam, on December 22 at 7pm at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) in the capital’s Segun Bagicha Area, reports The Independent. This was the first full-length play by the group and was quickly…
UNB: The Netherlands has assured support for exporting diversified jute products from Bangladesh to the European Union (EU) market. This was conveyed to Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal during his meeting with the Managing Director of CBI of the Netherlands Hans Obdeijn held recently in The Hague, said the Embassy on Saturday….