DOT Desk Bangladesh will get $525 million loan from World Bank (WB) with a view to improving its connectivity and climate resilience through building, maintaining and improving roads and rural bridges, reports The Financial Express. To this end, Bangladesh government signe ...বিস্তারিত
Hossen Sohel of DOT Two of every three women, around 66 percent, have suffered from domestic violence and 72.7 percent of them never disclosed their experience to others in Bangladesh, reports UNB. A joint research conducted by ActionAid Bangladesh and Jatiyo Nari Nirjaton ...বিস্তারিত
Arab News Katsuya Kodama’s wife died two years ago, and the 77-year-old keeps her ashes on a Buddhist altar in their suburban Tokyo home. “I talk to her morning and night, tell her everything,” he said. “I sit on the chair she used in the bath while ill. Sitting whe ...বিস্তারিত
Arab News North Korea has significantly expanded and upgraded long-range missile sites, according to satellite images published by CNN, highlighting the lack of progress in negotiations with the US in the months since Kim Jong-un met Donald Trump. The images showed upgrade ...বিস্তারিত
NDTV A soldier was killed in firing by Pakistani army across Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir on Thursday, officials said. They said that Indian and Pakistani armies exchanged fire in Uri (Baramulla district) and Machil (Kupwara district) sectors also prompting the a ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that the party will start giving final nomination letters to their candidates today and the process will be completed by tomorrow [Friday], reports The Daily Star. Quader, also the road transport and bridges mi ...বিস্তারিত
Sky News Researchers discovered death and diseases of the heart or blood vessels in the brain are more likely to affect people who had more than eight hours' sleep a day compared to those who slept for between six and eight hours. The study looked a data from 116,000 people ...বিস্তারিত
MEMO : Three major unions in Morocco announced their withdrawal from the social dialogue session with the government due to disagreement over details of the salaries increase. The General Union of Moroccan Workers (close to the oppositionist = said it had “withdrawn from ...বিস্তারিত
Adam Johnson speaks to DOT : Adam Johnson used to teach at Stamford and he read a book by a North Korean in which an account of imprisonment in a labor camp of a man named Kang Cholehwan deeply touched him. Since 1957 only 27,000 North Koreans could escape- not many of ...বিস্তারিত
Badiul Alam Majumdar speaks to DOT : So far, the role of the Election Commission has been questioned ahead of the 11th parliamentary elections slated to be held on December 30. The EC has failed to show neutrality. The people have lost confidence in the EC. The commissio ...বিস্তারিত