DOT Desk A 12-day-long photo exhibition titled ‘American Landscape’ by Shibly Shiraj will begin at the city’s EMK Centre on today, reports The Independent. Amanullah Khan, chairman of United News of Bangladesh, will formally inaugurate the exhibition at Edward M Kennedy Centre. , Midas Center, House-5, Road-16 in Dhanmondi around 11 am on Saturday. Eminent…
Arab News: Qatar defied US President Donald Trump on Wednesday and promised to plough $15 billion into Turkish financial markets and banks, amid a collapse in the value of the lira and a looming trade war between Turkey and the United States. The bail-out followed talks in Ankara between the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim…
Dilip Mandal, Senior journalist/The Print So little is known about educator and social reformer Fatima Sheikh that even her date of birth is debated. Every year, on 3 January, India celebrates (or at least acknowledges) Savitribai Phule’s birth anniversary. She was the first Indian woman to become a teacher and start a school for girls….
BSS Harvest of transplanted (T) Aman paddy, a high yielding crop, is nearing completion in all the seven upazilas of the district this season. Department of Agriculture Extension officials said they set a target to bring 1, 19,649 hectares of land under T-Aman cultivation this year with the production target of 3,14,712 tonnes of rice….
NDTV: Sacked Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested yesterday by the Gujarat CID in connection with a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest a man, police said. Mr Bhatt and seven others, including some former policemen attached with the Banaskantha Police, were initially detained for questioning in the case. Shortly after…
Ilias Kanchan speaks to DOT : Drivers, passengers and pedestrians must be made to obey the law – whether through law, intimidation or even through fines. No one in our country obeys unless there is supervision. This is why the public has to be brought under the law through the fear of the law. In…
UNB: The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to return the passport of Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury for six months. An HC bench of Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty passed the order after hearing a petition. Advocate Fazlur Rahman stood for Ariful while deputy attorney general Maniruzzaman Kabir…
UNB: BNP on Tuesday demanded the release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail before Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of Muslims, to be celebrated on August 22. “Our leader Khaleda Zia must be freed from jail before the Eid-ul-Azha after withdrawing the false cases filed against her,” said party senior joint secretary general…
Former Ethiopian president Girma Woldegiorgis dies Former Ethiopian president Girma Woldegiorgis died on Saturday, two weeks short of his 95th birthday, state media reported. Girma was president of Ethiopia for twelve years between 2001 to 2013, a largely ceremonial role. His death was reported by the Ethiopia Broadcasting Corporation and other state media. AFP