The Straits Times Turkish woman Tulay Gercek stands in front of a vending machine at a busy Istanbul metro station but instead of putting coins into a slot, she crams plastic bottles into a hole. Every bottle or can Gercek places in the machine gives extra credit on her Istanbul card – the universal ticket…
DOT Desk Thirty-two organisations on Saturday received ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2017 under 13 categories, reports The New Age. Reviewing the performances of the companies based on their annual reports, the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh selected the organisations. Finance minister AMA Muhith handed over the awards at an event held at…
AP Police say a 31-year-old protester who told children Santa Claus is not real has been arrested for trespassing at a North Texas church. Aaron Urbanski was arrested Saturday after authorities were called to a church in Cleburne, which was hosting a breakfast with Santa event. Police say they found three people demonstrating outside the…
DOT Desk Anam Biswas’s film ‘Debi’ has become the most successful film of 2018, reports The Daily Observer. Its box office collection abroad has also become unparalleled, the film’s international promoter claims. It is the first production from Joya Ahsan. Yesterday marked the fiftieth day of the film’s release. On this day the actress-cum-producer released…
DOT Desk Chinese poet-cum-architects Lam-Kong Chuen and Cherry Tsang have prepared to cast Bangladeshi poetry into architectural design. This time they have selected poetry from noted poet Professor Muhammad Samad, reports The Daily Observer. About his role in inspiring architectural designs through poetry the two painters in a joint statement have said that Muhammad Samad…
Steven W. Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute & author / New York Post Pope Francis last year created the “World Day of the Poor” to call attention to the less fortunate among us. So far so good. All popes back to Peter have encouraged us to be generous to the poor, a message…
DOT Desk Due to lack of proper preservation, more than 50 mass graves of the district are becoming extinct, reports The Daily Observer. Many of the mass graves have not been identified yet. The process to identify the graves was taken several times, but later stopped for unknown reasons. As a result, the land of…
DOT Desk The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) will purchase eight vehicles for a project under which 28-kilometre district road in Tangail will be widened, reports The Financial Express. They said it has proposed buying two expensive jeeps, two double cabin pickups, two backhoe loaders and two motor-cycles at a total cost of Tk 46.52…
DOT Desk Two brothers, who were injured being beaten by uncle’s people on Friday following dispute over land at Kodalia village in Chauhali upazila of Sirajganj district, reports The Daily Observer. Deceased Kawsar Hossain, 23, and Milton Hossain, 30, were the sons Altaf Ali, a resident of the village, said Chauhali Police Station officer in-charge…
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…