AFP Australian schoolchildren led thousands of demonstrators nationwide on Saturday (Dec 8) calling for a halt on plans for Indian mining firm Adani to construct a controversial coal mine in the country’s north-east. The rallies across major cities followed a protest last month that saw thousands of Australian students defy Prime Minister Scott Morrison and…
DOT Desk High-end car sales grew about 17 percent annually in the last three years thanks to Bangladesh’s growing affluent class, brought about by the country’s steady economic growth over the past decade, reports The Daily Star. Bangladesh has topped the list of countries that saw the quickest growth in the number of ultra-wealthy people…
DOT Desk Benapole Port, the country’s biggest land port, is on the path to full-fledged automation with the installation of all necessary electronic devices going on full-swing, reports The Independent. With an estimated cost of Tk 52 crore, the port area will be equipped with automation machines and close-circuit television (CCTV) cameras and a boundary…
DOT Desk Country’s all 68 prisons are holding prisoners more than double to its capacity, according to official data, reports The Financial Express. The Prisons Directorate data showed that there were 88,721 inmates, which is 142 per cent higher than the capacity of 36,614—34,940 males and 1,674 females—in the prisons, as of December 07, 2018….
DOT Desk The central bank has drafted a law meant to recognise movable properties as collaterals against loans from the banking system, reports The Financial Express. The Bangladesh Bank has already posted the draft on its official website seeking opinion from the stakeholders to finalise it. The law will require passage by the national parliament…
DOT Desk A China-led consortium is set to build Dhaka bypass as the country’s first toll expressway with high-tech road facilities under public-private partnership, reports The Financial EXpress. Officials claimed the first-ever real-time PPP project followed the PPP guideline, including design and selection of concessionaire under the PPP Authority. Although projects like Dhaka Elevated Expressway…
DOT Desk Police recovered hanging body of a student of Chittagong University (CU) from a rented-cottage beside the university campus, reports The Daily Sun. The deceased identified as Jahangir Alam Raju, 21, was fourth year student of Economics department of the university. Sources said Raju had been living at a tin-roofed rented-cottage ‘Atim Ali Cottage,…
DOT Desk Bangladeshi film ‘Haldaa’, directed by Tauquir Ahmed, has clinched the Best Feature Film (Fiction) award at the 4th Kashmir World Film Festival, reports The Independent. ‘Haldaa’ was not the only film by a Bangladeshi to make a splash at this year’s KWFF. ‘The Fear of Silence’ (Bhoy) by Zuairijah Mou, won the award…
BSS A rural youth lacking higher education and enduring various odds has embarked on a successful mission of innovating an environment-friendly technology of generating fuel from plastic wastes like polythene and plastic bags.HM Tawhid, a 25-year youth, has only completed his higher secondary school from Govt. Ashek Mahmud College in Jamalpur. He did not get…
BSS Rabeya Ferdousi, a 37-year-old house maker, was passing a happy family life with loving corporate husband and adorable kids despite facing various daily urban odds in the mega city. Everything was going fine for Rabeya except suffering from periodic fever in the last few months. Though she did not care the fevers considering those…