Desk Report: The incremental loss of open, grazing land to new homes and burgeoning shrimp farms in parts of Bagerhat is proving a hazard to the area’s cattle breeders, who could once rely on an abundance of local pasture to feed their livestock, reports Daily Star. “I have three cows,” says Tandra Shikder from Mohishcharani…
BDnews24: Students of BRAC University have boycotted classes and exams, demanding unconditional release of their fellows arrested during the campaign for safer roads. Final examinations of all semesters in the university and classes were expected to begin at 10am on Wednesday. “Our brothers were remanded and demands of our younger brothers and sisters were not…
NTV Online: Customs Preventive team arrested an Indian national along with 22 gold bars, weighing 12.3 kg, at Shahjalal International Airport early Thursday. The arrestee is Arshad Ayaz, 46, hailing from Kolkata in West Bengal. A flight of Thai Airways landed at the airport from Bangkok at night, reports the UNB. Tipped off, the team…
Desk Report: Bangladesh cricket team players have returned home from Florida after a successful tour to the West Indies and the United States of America (USA), reports Rising BD. The Tigers reached the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in capital around 9am by a flight of Emirates Airlines. However, all the players of the team did…
Desk Report: Finally, after over seven years of toiling exercise of preparatory work, construction of the much-talked about 47-km Dhaka Elevated Expressway commenced formally on April 1, 2018, reports Daily Star. The expressway scheme has so far made an overall ten percent progress, while the 7.5 km-long first section stretching from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport…
Desk Report: Law enfor- cers started block raid against drug peddlers in Bashundhara Residential area and its adjacent areas of Dhaka yesterday. Several teams of law enforcers started the raid around 8:30pm to arrest drug peddlers and criminals, Qamruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Bhatara Police Station, told The Daily Star. Several hundreds of police and Detectives Branch…
Desk Report: Women domestic helps who returned home were denied justice in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), workers and rights activists said, reports Financial Express. Though a significant number of women workers came back home from the oil-rich country due to exploitation, not a single case was filed against their employers, they said. According…
Desk Report: Bangla Academy will soon publish three books authored by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports Daily Star. Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan, director general of Bangla Academy, said this yesterday at a discussion on Bangabandhu’s two already-published books — “Karagarer Rojnamcha” and “Oshomapto Atmojiboni”, marking 43rd death anniversary of Bangabandhu and National Mourning Day (August 15)….
Desk Report: Many buses of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC), the state-owned agency to operate pubic transports on commercial basis, are plying roads without renewal of their fitness certificates, in violation of traffic law, reports Daily Sun. Operation of unfit vehicles are held responsible for many road fatalities. A daily sun investigation found that hundreds…
UNB: A 163-member contingent including 117 athletes will represent Bangladesh in the 45-nation 18th Asian Games to be held in the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang from 18 August to 2 September. Indonesia is hosting the Asian Games for the 2nd times after Jakarta Games 1962 under President Soekarno. Some 15,000 athletes and officials…