Soumyadipta Banerjee Daily O, India Twitter admitted that it has been profiling its users, monitoring them actively through artificial intelligence, ranking them, restricting them and also making them ‘disappear’ at times. On July 26, 2018, US President Donald Trump declared war on Twitter from his Twitter account. He accused Twitter of shadow banning prominent Republican…
DOT Desk The law and order situation improved further in Rangpur metropolitan city since the inception of Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP) on September 16 last, reports The Independent. RpMP officials said the number of crimes committed in RpMP area during the period stood at 251 against 311 crimes committed during the previous three months of…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Prime Minister’s Intern-ational Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi has called for social boycott of the corrupt to check corruption in the society. “Law is not enough to reduce corruption. They need to be socially boycotted,” he said at a program of the Transparency International Bangladesh. He commented that poverty cannot be reduced…
Medical Daily: Nervous about that big test at school or that presentation at work? Just take a walk, no longer than ten minutes. Not only will it clear your mind but it may also improve your brain’s ability to store and recall memories. That is what researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and the…
Rubya Tripty: Bidhan Kamol Rosario, 65 was a freedom fighter who left his Catholic village to join liberation war now is living in fear in the Muslim majority country. Ahead of Pope Francis’ first visit in Bangladesh in more than 30 years, many Catholics say practicing their faith in this country never has been so…
Mihir Zaveri/The New York Times When a black man staying in a Doubletree hotel in Portland, Ore., called his mother from the lobby, he was told by a white security guard that he was trespassing and was escorted out of the building by the police. The Dec. 22 encounter was captured on cellphone video by…
BSS Anima Rahman lives in a flat along a road in the capital’s Eskaton area. She along with his five-year daughter Tamanna and all members of her family have to suffer from acute sound pollution round-the-clock. Almost all of them are facing difficulties in hearing while in case of low voice they could not hear…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed Corruption is nothing uncommon in countries across the world, particularly the developing countries. But in South Asia it is a malaise in many ways. Bangladesh is no exception. Corruption here goes unchallenged and the flaws are basically institutional. To effectively deal with corruption ensuring accountability at all levels is now a…
Catherine Wilkinson/ Seven Billion Today Famous people in the entertainment industry have asked the BBC in an open letter to move the Eurovision song contest from Israel to another place. As the winner was from Israel last year, organisers have started planning the event in Tel Aviv for 2019 – continuing the Eurovision tradition. But,…
Abrar Hussain of DOT : Poles all over the country gathered in the port city of Gdansk yesterday for the funeral of murdered mayor Pawel Adamowicz, whose public stabbing has raised alarm about the hot issue of political hate speech in the Baltic country.Around 3,500 people, including Polish President Andrzej Duda and EU Council President…