DOT Desk Two motorbike riders were killed when a bus ran over them near a police outpost in Dhaka-Chattogram highway’s Feni municipality area on Friday afternoon, reports The Daily Star. The deceased – Noor Mohammad Munshi, 38, and Noor Nabi Chowdhury, 30 – were brothers, and residents of the district’s sadar upazila, police said. According…
UNB Police in special drives arrested 74 people, who are accused in different cases, from eight upazilas of the district from Friday evening to Saturday morning. Of them, 19 were arrested from Sadar upazila, 24 from Kolaroa upazila while the others from Kaliganj,Ahsashuni,Patkelghata, Debhata, Shamnagar and Tala upazilas. said Azam Khan, Inspector of Special Branch…
India Today Winters are a hard time for the border guarding forces along the odd 70 km riverine border between India and Bangladesh. As the monsoon ends and the water level in the rivers decrease, smugglers along the India Bangladesh border have a field day. BSF sources said that the activity of smugglers has already…
DOT Desk ‘Break Free From Plastic’ has come up with the rankings after conducting cleanup operations in 42 countries, reports Dhaka Tribune. Coca-Cola has been ranked as the top plastic polluter among multinational corporate brands in the world, and second in Bangladesh. “Break Free From Plastic” movement’s global corporate brand audit report, titled “Branded: In…
DOT Desk Internationally renowned Spanish-Bangladeshi artist Monirul Islam will be conferred the Royal Spanish Order of Merit at the residence of the Ambassador of Spain in Bangladesh, today evening, reports The Daily Star. The living legend of art was recently bestowed with the Bangla Academy Honouary Fellowship 2018 in Fine Arts. He will also receive…
India Today The Hindu Jagran Manch, an affiliate of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), said it will be holding its Virat Hindu Conference in Kolkata, West Bengal to evict “illegal Muslim Bangladeshis” from the state. The Manch, however, said that the Hindu refugees from Bangladesh and Pakistan should be given citizenship rights. “We want NRC [National…
BSS Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said the present government has attained significant success in women education. He also said the government under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has attached top priority to women education. with the main thrust of making them worthy citizens together with transforming them…
DOT Desk Bangladesh’s tourism sector has grown with the pace of the country’s economic growth in the past decade, as more and more people are having sizeable disposable income. In the past decade, the economy grew at an average of 6.5 percent; and in the last three years it clocked in more than 7 percent…
DOT Desk Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has allowed four internet protocol telephony service providers (IPTSP) to launch mobile phone application-based calling service amid concern about misuse of the service for international call termination. BTRC gave the entities the permission to run the service at a recent commission meeting with its acting chairman Md Jahurul Haque…
DOT Desk Trade deficit narrowed slightly in the first four months in the current fiscal year on the back of rising export earnings against moderate import payments, reports The Daily Star. The country’s trade gap fell 8 percent year-on-year to $5.32 billion between July and October, according to data from the central bank.