Takeaways for the youth from Awami League manifesto

    Shah Ali Farhad, Lawyer, researcher and political activist. He is currently serving the Centre for Research and Information (CRI) as its Senior Analyst/BDnews24 The Awami League on Tuesday unveiled its manifesto for the upcoming election titled ‘Somriddhir Ogrojatray Bangladesh’ which roughly translates to ‘Bangladesh on the march towards prosperity’. Apart from the sector-based description of…

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      Workshop on Purification campaign

      A workshop on purification was held on December 18 at the Sahibuddin Ahmed Hall of the Pallabi Electricity Board. The event was inaugurated by a powerpoint presentation on Purification by Public Relations Director Md. Anwar Hossain. Chief guest of the workshop was BAPBIBOARD Chairman Major General Moin Uddin (Retd.). Special guests of the event were…

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        Bangladesh’s achievement immense in safe migration sector: Envoy

        UNB Bangladesh Ambassador to South Korea Abida Islam has said Bangladesh’sachievement in the safe migration sector is  “immense”. “Bangladesh is playing a significant role in formulating international migration policy,” said Ambassador Abida while speaking at a function marking the International Migrants Day at the Embassy of Bangladesh in Seoul on Tuesday. The event began with…

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          AL election campaign office vandalised

          in Sherpur DOT Desk Miscreants vandalised an election campaign office of the Awami League candidate of Sherpur-1 constancy in Bagbari Bazar of sadar upazila early yesterday reports Daily Sun. Md Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sherpur Police Station, said some unidentified miscreants vandalised office furniture in Dhola union in the dark of night and later set…

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            Why shopping online is more fun than mall hopping

            Mahmood Saberi/Gulf News It is easy and convenient but in a place like India e-commerce has its own pitfalls Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha was rightly miffed when she got what looked like a steel tap carefully wrapped in bubble plastic instead of the headphones she had ordered. To add insult to injury the customer service…

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              RCC to implement Tk 10,000-cr uplift projects: Liton

              BSS Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton has said Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is committed to implementing development projects involving more than Taka 10,000 crore during the next five years for improving living and livelihood condition of its people. “Each of the proposed projects will be mega one and initiative has already been taken to this end,”…

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                Panchagarh to cultivate potatoes

                DOT Desk Around 5,000 hectares of land have been brought under potato cultivation in the current Rabi season in Panchagarh district, reports The Financial Express. The farmers are seen busy over nurturing their potato fields. They started harvesting the early variety of potato, and have been selling their produce at fair prices in the local…

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                  Basic rights still elude tea workers

                  DOT Desk Majority of the tea plantation workers in the country are being deprived of their rights mainly because of legal bottlenecks and irregularities in government monitoring agencies, a study has revealed, reports The Financial Express. The workers cannot enjoy their rights due to lack of awareness, education and training, said the study conducted by…

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                    The Curious Case of Donald J Trump

                    Deena Stryker, International expert, author and journalist /NEO President Donald Trump is probably the most vilified White House tenant, yet in their desperate search for ways to evict him, the Justice Department and the media have passed over his encouragement of Neo-Nazi violence, his racial ‘dog whistling’, his widely publicized affairs — and the payments…

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                      Over 1,000 BGB platoons to be deployed nationwide

                      Abrar Hussain of DOT :  BGB Headquarters Media Officer Mohsin Reza announced yesterday that a total of 1,016 BGB (Border Guards Bangladesh) platoons will be deployed across the country to act as law enforcers for the national parliamentary election. 50 platoons will be deployed in Dhaka, said Reza, but he did not elaborate on how…

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