DOT Desk The government of Bangladesh yesterday signed a $500 million financing agreement with the World Bank to improve livestock and dairy production as well as provide better market access to 2 million household farmers and small and medium-scale agro-entrepreneurs. The Livestock and Dairy Development Project will help stimulate private sector investment and sustainable, development…
BRAC BRAC Sierra Leone has been awarded “The Most Outstanding NGO of the year – 2018,” by a consortium of national and international organisations (Council of Chief Executives in Sierra Leone, EcoMedia Corporation, Africa Media Corporation, Institute for Public Affairs and Good Governance, and the African Consulting group). Since its inception in 2008, BRAC Sierra…
DOT Desk Green Delta Insurance has taken an initiative titled ‘Supreme Celebrity’ on the occasion of the Victory Day, reports The Financial Express. The ‘Supreme Celebrity’ is aimed at making a digital selfie archive with freedom fighters around us. This digital selfie archive with the supreme celebrities will later be submitted to the Liberation War…
Raj Ahmed of DOT Jatiya Oikyafront leader Dr. Kamal Hossain expressed his lamentation that there is currently no good governance in the country. “If anybody claims that there is good governance in the country, I will say that he or she is a liar,” Dr. Kamal said at a discussion meeting at the Supreme Court…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar protested the chief election commissioner’s response to his statement: there is no level-playing field in the election. In an event at Rangamati on Tuesday, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda gave a speech that attacked the very post of the election commissioner, said Talukdar in a written…
Gulf News Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan was fined 15 per cent of his match fee for shouting at the umpire during Monday’s opening Twenty20 international against West Indies, the International Cricket Council said. Shakib was also handed one demerit point, his second such penalty since the introduction of the system in September 2016, for…
Jamille Bigio/Reuters As Yemen’s warring parties met in Sweden last week, hopes were high that these peace talks – the first since 2016 – would spark a political process to end the ongoing conflict that has left the country on the brink of famine and created what the UN calls a “living hell for millions…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT A dreary grain silo that was transformed into an enormous colourful artwork in South Korea has been put on the list of the largest outdoor mural in the world, by Guinness World Records. The painting depicting a young boy’s journey into adulthood covers the outside of giant storage containers in Incheon…
BBC A baby on a small Pacific island has become the first person given a vaccine delivered by a commercial drone. Unicef arranged for the drone to be flown some 40km (25 miles) across rugged mountains in Vanuatu that otherwise take hours to cross. About 20% of children in Vanuatu don’t receive important vaccinations because…
AFP For three years, Mosul’s women were covered in black from head to toe and its men had to keep their beards long. Salons were shut, and plastic surgery considered a crime. But more than a year after the Islamic State group’s ouster, the Iraqi city is flaunting its more fabulous side. Need to zap…