DOT Desk: Thousands of farmers in Sunamganj are worried as rats are eating up their paddy at Jahangirnagar union under Sadar upazila in Sunamganj Haor area, reports The Daily Star. Mizanur Rahman, a resident of Islampur village, said paddy on his five kiar (one kiar = 30 decimals) of land has been destroyed. , adding…
Science Alert: If you look just to the right of the northern constellation of Triangulum, you’ll see a faint smudge in the night sky. That’s the Triangulum Galaxy, and it’s 3 million light-years away – one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye. But the Hubble Space Telescope’s eyes are not as…
Monirul Alam of DOT The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has postponed its pre-scheduled meeting of Board of Directors yesterday over quorum-crisis, delaying again the approval of new banks and the half-yearly monetary policy for the January-June period. “It has happened unexpectedly at the last moment due to quorum-crisis,” said Sirajul Islam, executive director and spokesperson for…
BSS: Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has penalised 18 shops Taka 56,500 in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions in December last year for selling and manufacturing adulterated food items. Eight mobile courts of the BSTI Rajshahi regional office in association with local administration conducted drives in different parts of the two divisions. and found the…
DOT Desk: The irrigation is expected to officially start from January 15 in the command area of the irrigation project, reports Dhaka Tribune.The Teesta barrage irrigation project is set to begin in the current Rabi and Kharif-1 seasons in three districts – Nilphamari, Rangpur and Dinajpurof Bangladesh. Around 29,500 hectares of land has been allotted…
DOT Desk: Newly appointed Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Tuesday said the main challenge of her ministry is to tackle the perennial problem of question paper leakage, reports Daily Sun. The Education Minister came up with the remark while talking to reporters after joining office at the Secretariat for the first time after taking…
Mansur Iqbal, Maulvibazar Corespondent Maulvibazar-1 (Barlekha-Juri) constituency MP four times. Shahab Uddin got the responsibility of forest and environment minister. From cabinet to mobile phone This information has been confirmed to Shahab Uddin. He took oath on 7 January at Bangabhaban. On Sunday, the media confirmed the information to the media at two. Shahab Uddin…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Citing “confusion” over his speech on the December 30 general polls, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder yesterday cleared that he did not change his stance and that his “speech of thanks should not be taken in a political manner”, reports The Daily Star. He made the remarks in a statement written to…
UNB: The week-long ‘Madhu Mela’, an annual festival marking the birth anniversary of the pioneer of Bengali sonnets poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta, will begin at his birth place in Sagardari of Keshabpur upazila on January 22. Marking the poet’s 195th birth anniversary, the festival will feature discussions, exhibition and cultural programmes. This year, Jatra (a…
Munir Akram, Former Pakistan ambassador to the UN/ Dawn, Pakistan RECENT statements from Prime Minister Imran Khan and his ministers have outlined fairly clear plans to address Pakistan’s macro-economic challenges. Even if all goes well, economists project that, due to financial constraints, Pakistan’s economic growth will remain between 3 to 4.5 per cent during the…