Abrar Hussain of DOT BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyer has expressed no-confidence in the High Court bench of Justice JBM Hassan assigned to hearing her writ petitions regarding the cancellation of her nomination papers. Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain assigned the bench yesterday to hear and dispose of Khaleda’s three writ petitions. The lawyer,…
DOT Desk The Rotavirus Organisation of Technical Allies council in a report said that about 2.4 million children, mostly aged between 3 months and 2 years, became infected with rotavirus each year in Bangladesh, reports The New Age. Medical experts said that rotavirus was the most fatal of the four viruses and bacteria-responsible for diarrhoeal…
BSS: Outgoing Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed called on President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban here on yesterday afternoon. “The navy chief apprised the President of the overall development activities of Bangladesh Naval Force,” President’s Press Secretary Joynal Abedin told BSS after the meeting. He said the navy chief expressed his…
DOT Desk The country was now flooded with Alibaba, Daraz, Ajker Deal, Pickaboo and other e-commerce sites, reports New Age. The interest of women in online trade was growing and online fashion houses, jewellery houses and other daily products were seeing a boom. These female entrepreneurs worked from home and connected to buyers over phone or…
Maj Gen (retd) Abdur Rashid speaks to DOT : The government’s zero tolerance policy against corruption will come successful based on the application of the process. Graft is a social and national illness. So, there has to be legal action in order to reduce anomalies. Moreover, the people also need to be made aware of…
Sofian Khan The Yemeni Army chief of staff has been injured by a landmine which blasted off while his visit at the northern Al-Jouf province, where government forces and Houthi fighters are engaged in a heavy fighting. The official said Brig. Gen. Taher al-Aqeeli suffered minor injuries from the explosion that took place on Friday…
Ejinsight: Back in 1985, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed a resolution declaring Sept. 10 of every year as Teachers’ Day across China. Coincidentally, it was on Teachers’ Day this year that Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma Yun announced that he is going to retire next year in order to return to his previous…
BSS An Australian icebreaker that ran aground in Antarctica during a blizzard has been refloated, officials said Saturday as they work to bring the vessel’s expeditioners home. The Aurora Australis ran aground with 68 people on board after breaking its moorings on Wednesday and was stuck on rocks at Horseshoe Harbour, close to Australia’s Mawson…
Desk Report BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday alleged that the government blocked BNP’s website with a ‘mean political intention’. “The government, after robbing of people’s democratic rights, now out to destroy the opposition party’s right to use technology. In line with this, the government also wants to keep control on…