Ambassador Muhammad Zamir writes for DOT : On 11 November we have had the ceremonial centennial commemoration of Armistice Day. On this day, a century ago, an Armistice was signed ending fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, G ...বিস্তারিত
Amanullah Kabir speaks to DOT : Ruling party Awami League has given priority to money and muscle power for selecting candidates for contesting the upcoming parliamentary polls slated for December 30. The upcoming national election will be a neck-and-neck contest. Prime M ...বিস্তারিত
Shah Ali Farhad writes for DOT : After losing the party’s registration with the Election Commission of Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami, a member of the BNP-led 20-Party Alliance, moved to contest in the upcoming parliamentary election as part of the 20-Party Alliance. Jama ...বিস্তারিত
Major General Abdur Rashid (Retd.) speaks to DOT : According to the US Congress, Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chhatra Shibir and Hefajat-e-Islam are a threat to Bangladesh's stability and non-communalism. The outfits aim to spread terrorism in the name of Islam and establish I ...বিস্তারিত
Sadiya S. Silvee writes for DOT : Sukur Ali, a fourteen-year-old Manikganj boy, was charged and arrested with committing the offence of rape and murder of Sumi Akhter, a minor girl aged at about 7 years, under section 6(2) of the Nari-O-Shisho Nirjaton (Bishesh Bidhan) Ai ...বিস্তারিত
Adam Johnson speaks to DOT : Adam Johnson was born in South Dakota and raised in Arizona. Johnson is the author of the novel The Orphan Master's Son (2012), which Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, has called, "a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that n ...বিস্তারিত
Grant Duncan, Associate professor for the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University/Channel NewsAsia While people's trust in their politicians has been damaged, it would be morally unacceptable to give up on the project of restoring political trust o ...বিস্তারিত
Ajay Saini, Researcher and writer/ The Guardain, UK The history of the Andaman islands means its inhabitants have good reason to fear outsiders. Let them be “Lord, is this island Satan’s last stronghold where none have heard or even had the chance to hear your name ...বিস্তারিত
Peter Apps, Reuters global affairs columnist/BDnews24 When Vladimir Putin opened a new bridge linking Crimea to the rest of Russia across the Azov Sea in May, Russian officials said it was intended to integrate the disputed peninsula – seized by Moscow from Ukraine in 2 ...বিস্তারিত
Sumitra Nair, Lawyer and blogger/ Gulf News What is the difference between feminism and women empowerment? Google has defined a feminist or feminism as seeking to establish equal opportunities for women. But since the advent of feminism, the word has confused most of ...বিস্তারিত