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. The courts also realised Taka 56,500 from the shop owners during the drives conducted in four districts under the divisions. BSTI Director (Rajshahi) Taher Jamil said…
NDTV: That’s what was written on the cardboard sign David Voith would hold as he stood at an embankment along the Hillandale strip mall in Silver Spring, Maryland, waiting for cars to slow. Sometimes, motorists would hand him a little money. Sometimes, they’d look at his eyes and offer medical advice. They’d say to him,…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT A Bangladeshi-American descent has been arrested in Bangladesh for alleged war crimes, including “murder and rape”, during the country’s 1971 Liberation War with Pakistan. The arrestee is Mohamed Jubair Monir, 62.Official documents purportedly show he was only 13 when Bangladesh was liberated, reports Al Jazeera. His family also claims he did…
AP: A suburban Detroit woman and South Side Chicago man are recovering in a Chicago hospital following rare triple transplant surgeries that gave them the healthy heart, liver and kidney each needed — and a new friendship they never expected. University of Chicago Medicine doctors announced Friday that they successfully completed the triple organ transplants….
DOT Desk: he local toy-makers have gradually occupied 60 per cent of the market, helping to reduce the country’s dependence on imported toys, thanks to an increase in local and foreign investment, production of high-quality toys and government policy support, reports The Independent. Bangladesh Toy Merchants, Manufacturers and Importers’ Association president and managing director of…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT After all its 47 members took oath at Bangabhaban, the Cabinet Division yesterday evening published a gazette distributing portfolios among the new appointees. With the development, the outgoing cabinet got abolished with the publication of the gazette, reports The Daily Star. According to the gazette, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will have…
BSS: Mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over the regions of Dinajpur, Tetulia, Dimla, Rajarhat, Rajshahi, Pabna, Badalgachhi, Satkhira, Jashore, Chuadanga, Barishal, Srimangal, Sitakunda, Mymensingh, Gopalgonj and Faridpur and it may continue for few days, a met office release said today. Light to moderate fog may occur at some places over the country from…
PTI: Eight people, including five members of a family, died due to suffocation in two incidents in northwest Pakistan, police said. The incidents happened at Abbotabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. Five members, including three children, of a family died at Bandi Dhondian village in Abbotabad after…
David I Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies Emeritus at Georgetown University/ Channel NewsAsia As the 2020 elections draws closer, there is no indication that parties in the country will change their attitudes towards the Rohingya crisis, says one observer. Myanmar’s year was framed by the horrific residues of 2017 — the flight from death…
DOT Desk: The kitchen market monitoring activities are seriously being hampered as required number of law enforcers are not available for conducting drives against irregularities committed by traders, officials said, reports The Financial Express. The officials and market analysts blame it on the lack of coordination between the monitoring authority and law enforcers, but it…