M Humayun Kabir of DOT Mahbub Talukder, one of the five election commissioners, has once again walked out of a meeting on the next parliamentary election at the election commission by giving a note of dissent. The election commissioner walked out of the meeting 10 minutes ...বিস্তারিত
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed writes for NYT/DOT : The World Coalition, an alliance of NGOs, bar associations, local bodies and unions, whose aim is to strengthen the international anti-death penalty movement; decided in the year 2003 to observe the first World Day Against the Dea ...বিস্তারিত
UNB Without mentioning the name of Dr Kamal Hossain, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday said BNP has manifested its political bankruptcy through hiring a 'thrown-out' leader though its leader is still alive. "You (BNP leaders) should've resigned ...বিস্তারিত
Afsan Chowdhury writes for NYT/DOT : Who are the Rohingyas ? To the Myanmar majority, they are not Rohingyas or Rakhines but Bengalis. To us they are Myanmar citizens living in the Rakhine zone. To a section amongst us, they are Muslims and nothing else. Then, the Rohi ...বিস্তারিত
Arafat Hasan of DOT The World Bank said it would provide a standby loan of up to $1 billion for the Indonesian government for relief and reconstruction efforts in the two islands that were hit by earthquakes and tsunami. The fund will also give a $5 million grant for techn ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is an international observance celebrated every year on October 17 throughout the world. The first commemoration of the event took place in Paris, France, in 1987 when 100,000 people gathered on the Human Right ...বিস্তারিত
\Abrar Hussain of DOT Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from jail on yesterday after three weeks behind bars for organizing anti-Kremlin protests, his second spell in detention in as many months. The 42-year-old activist left a detention centre in the s ...বিস্তারিত
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Nineteen people, including several children, were killed as a truck carrying migrants crashed in the western Turkish province of Izmir yesterday, Reuters reports citing the state-owned Anadolu news agency. The mangled wreckage of the open top truck l ...বিস্তারিত
Kabir Humayun of DOT Bangladesh and India can dominate any sub-regional or regional grouping by continuing close coordination between the two countries, said an international relations analyst. “Together we’re the giants in BBIN & Bimstec. We can dominate any sub-r ...বিস্তারিত