BSS Agriculturists at a farmers’ field day programme have said adoption of the strip tillage method in sowing wheat seed using Power Tiller Operated Seeder (PTOS) Machine increases wheat production at reduced costs. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) organised the event on Sunday afternoon under the ‘Enhancement of Crop Production through Farm Mechanisation-2nd Phase’…
DOT Desk Police recovered the decomposed body of a young man from a remote hill in Chattogram’s Sitakundu upazila on Monday morning, reports The Financial Express. Locals said that a group of woodcutters found the body handing from a tree in the area under 6 no ward in Banshbaria union of the upazila in the…
BSS Over 3.55 lakh landless and homeless families across the country will get shelters and livelihood by 2019 through one of the Prime Minister’s 10 priority initiatives, ‘Ashrayan Prakalpa’. “A total of 2, 64,442 families have so far been rehabilitated across the country under the scheme in three phases since 1997,” Project Director of the…
DOT Desk Cabbage cultivation has brought smile on the faces of hundreds of grassroots farmers in the district, reports The Financial Express. Getting repeated bumper production and fair market prices, farmers in the area are showing interest in growing the winter delicacy, said sub-assistance agriculture officer of DAE Faridur Rahman. The farming has already proved…
DOT Desk With an intention of presenting a creative musical world to the country, a music festival-based reality show titled ‘ACI Fun Cake-Channel i-Gaaner Raja, powered by ACI Pure Spices’ is to start telecasting from today at 7:50pm on Channel i, reports The Independent. The champion, also be called as ‘Shishu Gaaner Raja’, will be…
DOT Desk The second edition of Bangladesh Short and Documentary Film Festival kicked off amid fanfare and enthusiasm on Saturday at all 64 districts of the country, reports The New Age. Organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, the festival was jointly inaugurated by the cultural affairs secretary Md Nasir Uddin and information secretary Abdul Malek at…
DOT Desk Preeminent Bangladeshi painter Monirul Islam has got Bangla Academy Honouary Fellowship 2018 in Fine Arts, reports The Daily Observer. Other six personalities have also received the award in their respective creative grounds. The 41st annual meeting of general council of Bangla Academy was held on December 8 at the premises of Bangla Academy…
DOT Desk Summit Power Limited has approved 30 per cent cash dividend to its shareholders for the year ended on 30 June 2018, reports The Independent. The dividend was approved in presence of the Company’s shareholder at its 21st Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) Complex, Farmgate, Dhaka, says a company…
DOT Desk Bangladesh has earned $1707.37 crore in the first five months (July-November) of the ongoing fiscal year which is 12.07 per cent higher than the target amount of $1523 crore, thanks to the readymade garments sector, reports The New Age. During the same period in 2017-18 fiscal the export earnings was $1456 crore. It…
Arafat Hasan of DOT : The High Court (HC) is set to deliver its order on three writ petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the Election Commission’s order that upheld the returning officers’ decision rejecting her nomination papers. The HC bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir fixed the…