Sofian Khan Rohingya Camps in Cox’s Bazar lack basic facilities of food, shelter and health, said rights activist Sultana Kamal on Monday.While addressing a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity in Dhaka, the rights activists said that there are continued risk of human trafficking at the refugee camps. She was briefing journalists about a…
NDTV: Former Indian cricketer and current Twitter funnyman Virender Sehwag has struck again – and this time with a picture that is sure to make married men around the globe laugh out loud. Virender Sehwag – who has a long history of sharing jokes about husbands – took to social media about three hours ago to…
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…
Afrida Ahmed: Neymar and his Brazil teammates landed on Russia on Monday morning, after beating Austria 3-0 ahead of the World Cup. They arrived in Sochi, a Black Sea resort city where they will be based. The opening match will be on Thursday between hosts Russia and Saudi Arabia. The Brazilians were very confident when they…
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the famed Indian independence leader, has been removed from a university campus in Ghana’s capital, Accra. University of Ghana lecturers began a petition for its removal shortly after it was unveiled in 2016 by India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee. The petition said Gandhi was “racist” and African heroes should be…
Maj Gen (retd) Abdur Rashid speaks to DOT : BNP tries foiling an election through sabotage once it senses a defeat. According to the media reports, BNP and Jamaat have increased their contact with Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. Telephonic conversation in this regard has been leaked out as well. They are plotting violence centring the…
Abrar Ahmed of DOT : Atiqul Islam, Awami League’s aspirant for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral election, collected his nomination form to contest the race, reported The Daily Star. AKM Mizanur Rahman collected the nomination papers on behalf of Atiqul from Abul Kashem, returning officer of the Dhaka north city, yesterday afternoon. Atiqul, former president…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a latest finding, Amnesty International has Turkey of creating a “chilling climate of fear” across society and curtailing the work of human rights activists since a failed 2016 coup. The rights group said freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial have been “decimated” under the state of emergency introduced…
UNB, Chittagong Five policemen and two drug traders were injured in a clash between the two groups at Rangipara slum in the city on Tuesday night. The injured policemen were identified as sub-inspectors Himel Roy, Nurul Afsar and Mizanur Rahman and assistant sub-inspectors Sharif and Jakir Hossain. Officer-in-charge of Halishahar Police Station Pranab Chowdhury said…
Abrar Hussain Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that $1 billion as well as other properties belonging to the sons of Begum Khaleda Zia ere traced in Belgium, Malaysia, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, reports Bss. “Of them, 750 million dollars were traced in Belgium, 250 million dollars in Malaysia, while houses, markets and other property…