The times of India Indian Railways is working to revive the old Siliguri-Sealda route via Bangladesh by 2021. If that does happen, it will cut travel time to Siliguri from to 11to seven hours. Trains from Siliguri will pass through Chilahati, Domar, Toronbari, Nilfamari, Sayeedpur, Darshana, Parbatipur after crossing Haldibari and then reach Sealdah via…
DOT Desk Prosecutor refuses allegations of negligence and blames the delay on ‘legal complexities’, reports he Dhaka Tribune. Legal complexities are being blamed for the failure to begin the trials in two cases filed over the Rana Plaza building collapse, over five years after 1,136 people died and thousands more were injured in the country’s…
DOT Desk Dhaliwood King Shakib Khan will be seen in a television commercial of a leading digital communications service provider alongside Nusraat Faria. The commercial is directed by Adnan Al Rajeev, who has established his identity as one of Bangladesh’s most popular advertisement filmmakers. This is Shakib Khan’s third television commercial, reports The Daily Star….
DOT Desk The Department of Agriculture Extension fixed a target for farmers to produce 86,079 tonnes of mustard on 66,728 hectares of land in all eight districts of two agriculture regions under the Rangpur division this season, reports The New Age. Department officials said farmers had so far brought 40,036 hectares of land, 60 per…
DOT Desk The construction of six footbridges, including three with lifts, in Dhaka South City Corporation area has got into uncertainty though the construction works were scheduled to begin by November this year, reports The New Age. Corporation officials said three footbridges with lift facility to ease movement of senior citizens and physically challenged people…
DOT Desk An orphaned Garo girl has allegedly been raped by a local youth after being abducted from Sherpur municipality area, reports The Financial Express. On Tuesday, Rocky and his sister Ria Akhter abducted her and took her to capital Dhaka. Rocky raped the girl throughout the night confining her to a house at Biswa…
DOT Desk Two international flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines have failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday, reports The Financial Express. Flight BG 148 from Dubai was scheduled to arrive at 8:30 am, but it landed at 10:29 am, according to sources at Civil Aviation Authority of…
UNB Patients of Bishwanath Upazila are being deprived of government healthcare facilities for alleged absence of doctors at the upazila health complex and other irregularities . Patients alleged that they find no doctor when they come to the health complex. Only a nurse is seen there who even doesn’t know the doctor’s phone number, they…
DOT Desk Celebrated vocalist Shaheen Samad in cooperation with another musician Jainul Abedin has launched an album of music videos yesterday, reports The Daily Observer. The album titled “Itihash O Bangabandhu” chiefly contains songs on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The album launching ceremony was arranged yesterday at National Art Plaza of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in…
DOT Desk A total of 30 businesses are commercially producing the blocks, reports The Dhaka Tribune. Eco-friendly bricks in the form of concrete blocks are gaining popularity in Bangladesh as a means to mitigate the environmental damage caused by conventional brick manufacturing. House Building Research Institute (HBRI), a component of the Ministry of Housing and…