Quota reformists to go tough after Aug 31
Kabir Humayun: The quota reformists yesterday threatened the government with a tougher agitation programme if their three-point demand is not met by August 31. “We will announce a tougher programme if the government does not respond to our demands by August 31,” said Bin Yeamin Mollah, joint convener of Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad,…
Immigration policy of the US part -2
Syed Nasir Ershad In the US, the 1965 Immigration Act was another milestone.There was no numerical quota on a western-hemisphere country until 1965. In 1965, when national origin quotas had been repealed, Congress replaced it with a system of so-called equal quotas. Every country gets the same number, so it was supposed to get rid…
Mango growers demand district-based chilling, packaging facilities
DOT Desk: Up to 30 per cent of mangoes produced in the country get wasted before reaching the market in absence of facilities to store and transport them properly, said growers and exporters at a discussion, reports The New Age. They demanded that the government should build chilling and packaging centres in all the districts…
5 dead, 40 injured in fresh Chicago shootings
Sayeed Muhammad: At least five people died as some 44 people were shot across the Midwestern US city of Chicago on Sunday, US media reported, saying the development that came in a wave of violence which police branded “totally unacceptable”. Fred Waller, chief of patrol at Chicago Police, told a press briefing on Sunday afternoon that…
UNAIDS chief stepping down early after scathing report
Channel News Asia The head of the U.N. agency for HIV and AIDS is stepping down in June, six months before his term ends, after an independent panel said that his “defective leadership” tolerated “a culture of harassment, including sexual harassment, bullying, and abuse of power”. Michel Sidibe announced the decision at the end of…
G20 seals landmark deal on WTO reform by ducking ‘taboo words’
Reuters Many delegates from the world’s 20 largest economies arrived at a summit in Argentina this week determined to clinch an agreement to reform the global trade system, pushed to a breaking point by tensions between the United States and China. To do so, they had to bow to U.S. and Chinese demands to drop…
Jakarta, the fastest-sinking city in the world
Desk Report: The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged by 2050, say researchers. Is it too late? It sits on swampy land, the Java Sea lapping against…
RMG exporters increasingly placing foothold in Indian market
DOT Desk ‘Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale’, a docu-drama based on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina – the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is all set for its world television (TV) premiere on December 15, reports The Independent. Three prominent channels of the country, Channel i, Maasranga TV and GTV will telecast the docu-drama at 3pm…