Muhammad Zamir, Former Ambassador, International Affairs Analyst: Myanmar is now worried over the growing international pressure. Aung San Suu Kyi refuses to confess the ethnic cleansing carried out on the Rohingyas in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. Now she claims that they have implemented 81 percent of the 88 recommendations put forward by Kofi Annan…
DOT Desk Some 93 per cent remediation of the Alliance-affiliated factories has been completed, including 90 per cent of the items that are most critical to life safety, reports The Financial Express. Besides, a total of 428 factories have completed inclusion of all material items in their initial Corrective Action Plans (CAPs), and nearly 1.6…
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…
UNB: Speakers at a discussion in New Delhi on Wednesday said Bangabandhu’s vision was to build a South Asia of peace, stability and development. They praised the able leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in rapid economic development of Bangladesh and said Bangabandhu would have been proud of what has been achieved under the leadership…
Tanzim Taqrim A mayor was stabbed in the neck for being pro-refugee. The town of Altena in Germany has taken more refugees than it’s legally required to. Andreas Hollstein was at a local kebab shop when a man went up to him and asked if he was the mayor. The kebab shop owner and his…
DOT Desk: All leading furniture manufacturers are offering discounts from 5 percent to 20 percent at the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair with a view to logging in big sales numbers, reports The Daily Star. Many of them are also offering the facility of equated monthly installment (EMIs) to attract customers. Customers can purchase products…
Sayeed Muhammad In a latest move, the High Court has issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why ‘Joy Bangla’ should not be declared the national slogan. It also asked cabinet secretary, and law and education secretaries to respond to the rule within 72 hours.The HC bench comprising Justice Kazi Rezaul haque and…
AP: A campaign to expand legal abortions in the homeland of Pope Francis is bitterly dividing Argentines — and increasingly even the profession that would be asked to carry them out. Hundreds of physicians have staged anti-abortion protests as an abortion rights bill moves toward a vote in the Senate next week. Some have demonstrated while…
BSS: With the increase of cold wave here, district administration has intensified warm cloth distribution among cold affected people of the district to mitigate their sufferings. Officials said District Relief and Rehabilitation office received a total of 41,700 pieces of blankets from the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief this season to distribute those to…
Reuters: Danish inventor Peter Madsen appeared in court on Wednesday to appeal against a life sentence handed to him for murdering and dismembering a Swedish journalist on board his home-made submarine. Madsen was found guilty in April of murdering and mutilating 30-year-old Kim Wall on the craft in Copenhagen harbor in 2017. His lawyers said…