Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh’s rapid economic expansion will pick up further momentum to hit 10% annual growth over the next three years. The 71-year-old leader said her nation will shed its “least developed country” status from 2024, reports the Nikkei. Hasina has overseen nearly a decade of consistent expansions…
BSS Mobile phone brand Airtel has launched a music competition named “Airtel YOLO Star” for all the music enthusiasts in the country. The platform provides an opportunity for the young musicians to showcase their talent, said a press release. The age limit to participate in this competition is 12 to 30 years. Based on the…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Students of Viqarunnisa School and College, who took strike into the third day yesterday to press home a six-point list of demands following the suicide of class nine student Aritry Adhikary allegedly due to humiliation by teachers, later announced they will postpone their agitation and attend exams. The 25-member student representative…
Banglanews24 Ten rooms of a tin-shed house and two shops were reported to have burnt in the fire at Sharifpur area in Gazipur City Corporation. The fire broke out around 2 pm yesterday. No casualties were reported. The loss was estimated at Taka 2 lakhs.
DOT Desk Farmers of the district are worried over the shortage of quality potato seeds. Officials at the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said farmers in the district need over 500 tonnes of seed this season to grow the item on 67,000 hectares of land, reports The Financial Express BD. “We were able to provide…
Hal Brands,Bloomberg Opinion columnist/Bloomberg Russia and China are making moves on America’s illiberal allies. Sometimes a handshake can mean quite a lot. Richard Nixon’s outstretched hand to Zhou Enlai in 1972 marked the end of a quarter-century of Chinese-American estrangement. The decidedly bro-ey handshake between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman at…
UNB The government has taken some initiatives to make different types of state-run industries, including sugar mills, cement factories, urea factories and Eastern Cables Ltd, profitable bringing them out of the cycle of loss, and enhance their production capacity. According to a document of the Industries Ministry, the government has taken various initiatives, including BMR…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad has revealed that he needs to go abroad for better treatment due of his sickness. At a press briefing held at the party’s Banani 8More on Page 7, Col (From Page 8) headquarters in the capital, the JP Chairman also urged the party men to remain…
Lela Gilbert, Internationally recognized expert on religious persecution, an award-winning author/The Jerusalem Post Christian women in Egypt face an epidemic of kidnapping, rape, beatings and torture. Egypt’s Christian community faces dangers that most other Egyptians needn’t fear. Threats of violence during church services, attacks on buses filled with innocent pilgrims and their children, and assaults…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Patuakhali-3 BNP candidate Golam Maula Rony and 22 others have won their petition to the Election Commission, to review their nomination applications for the parliamentary polls, reports bdnews24.com. As a result, the nominees, who had initially been rejected, will be able to contest the coming polls. The decision was taken…