Netherlands assist 10 RMG factories in Bangladesh

    Banglanews24 The Netherlands has been cooperating with 10 ready-made garment factories in Bangladesh, under a 5-year long bilateral project, to improvise quality of products. Dutch ministry of foreign affairs initiated the project. The foreign ministry here has issued a press release in this regard, on Sunday (Dec 2). Under the cooperative project, Dutch Centre for…

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      Coca cola Bangladesh cleans up St Martin’s Island

      DOT Desk This is the eighth edition of the initiative taken by the company to create a ‘World without Waste’, reports The Dhaka Tribune. Coca-Cola Bangladesh, in partnership with Keokradong Bangladesh, has recently concluded the eighth edition of the coastal cleanup and marine conservation drive along the beach of St Martin’s Island. The initiative is…

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        DAE sets up 200 hybrid maize demo plots

        DOT Desk In a bid to expanding maize cultivation in the Sylhet region, 200 demonstration plots of hybrid variety of the crop are being set in four selected upazilas, reports The Financial Express. An official of a special project named ‘Raising crop intensity in Sylhet division’ of the Department of Agriculture Extension Md Forhad Mia…

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          Teletalk loses 4.5 lakh users in Oct amid drive against illegal VoIP

          DOT Desk The number of active mobile phone subscribers in Bangladesh increased by 6.59 lakh in October despite state-owned Teletalk having lost 4.52 lakh users in the month, reports The New Age. Industry insiders said although voice call and data tariffs of the lone state-owned mobile operator were compatible with private mobile operators, the subscriber…

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            Readers shower love on Samaresh

            DOT Desk Dhaka readers crammed the bookshop Batighar at Bishwa Sahitya Kendra to listen to popular Indian Bengali novelist Samaresh Majumdar on Saturday morning, reports The New Age. One of the most widely read Bengali novelists in recent time, Majumdar shared about his life, writing career and also interacted with his readers, who crammed the…

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              FI Manik’s ‘Kathin Rai’ to hit shooting floor in Feb

              Banglanews24 Veteran Dhallywood filmmaker FI Manik has announced his latest film, slated to hit the shooting floor in February, 2019. Story of the film, titled ‘Kathin Rai’, has been written by another renowned film-maker Chotku Ahmed. “Story developing of the film is now nearly at end. But it may take almost two more months to…

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                Prisons authorities in a fix with ‘record’ number of inmates

                DOT Desk The prisons authorities are battling hard to deal with the country’s overcrowded jails that are now witnessing a ‘record number’ of inmates during the last one decade, officials said, reports The Financial Express. Usually, most of the prisons remain packed with under-trial prisoners and convicts. But large-scale arrest of people during the last few…

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                  Japan to give 500m yen for primary education

                  DOT Desk Japan will provide 500 million Japanese yen or approximately Tk 36.89 crore in grants to Bangladesh for the Fourth Primary Education Development Programme aimed to impart quality education to all children from pre-primary to Class-V, reports The New Age. ‘In this regard, Exchange of Notes and Grant Agreement will be signed on December…

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                    Tomato plants grow well in Rangpur

                    DOT Desk The tomato plants across the district and its adjacent areas have grown well, predicting an excellent yield of the vegetable during this season, reports The Financial express. This year vegetable cultivators in the region have geared up the farming of different early winter vegetables including tomato and made vigorous efforts to get expected…

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