Raj Ahmed of DOT A Noakhali court placed seven suspects on a five-day remand for interrogation in connection with an alleged gang rape of a woman in Subarnachar upazila. Judicial Magistrate Nabanita Guha passed the order yesterday in response to a 7-day remand plea for each by the police. Ibrahim Khalil, Sub Inspector (Investigation) of…
AP: Streaming TV may never again be as simple, or as affordable, as it is now. Disney and WarnerMedia are each launching their own streaming services in 2019 in a challenge to Netflix’s dominance. Netflix viewers will no longer be able to watch hit movies such as “Black Panther” or “Moana,” which will soon reside…
BDnews24: Sheikh Hasina, who has always included representatives from the Awami League’s allied parties in her administration, has not picked any of them as her new cabinet colleagues. The Awami League won a landslide victory in the 11th national parliamentary election and is going to form the government for a third consecutive term. It is…
DOT Desk: Anarchy and indiscipline still continue on roads in the capital and elsewhere in the country, causing frequent accidents and huge loss of lives, reports The Daily Sun. Almost everyday, reckless driving is costing lives on different roads in the country. Road accidents are taking place frequently because of reckless driving, overtaking tendency of…
DOT Desk: The export of furniture is getting a boost as it accounted for $33.72 million during the first six months (July-December) of the current fiscal year (FY19), which is 40.56 per cent higher than that of the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, reports The Financial Express. The export of furniture during the July-December…
DOT Desk: Police will shut down food stalls if price chart is not displayed at Dhaka International Trade Fare (DITF) beginning from January 9 at Sher-e-Banglanagar in the capital, reports The Financial Express. The decision was taken in a meeting on ‘Security and Traffic Management’ of the 24th DITF held at Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)…
Eurek Alert: Fresh food is so attractive to astronauts that they toasted with salad when they were able to cultivate a few lettuce heads on the International Space Station three years ago. In 2021, beans are on the menu to be grown in space, planted in high-tech planters developed at the Norwegian University of Science…
Simon Jenkins, Guardian columnist/Gulf News For all his antics on the Mexican border, Trump’s Syria troop withdrawal plan is salutary For a Briton to spend time in the US just now is a blessed relief. Whole days pass, and no talk of Brexit. It is as if a pall has lifted from the art of…
Arafat Hasan of DOT A Dhaka court sentenced Barrister Nazmul Huda to jail yesterday after he surrendered in a bribery case involving Tk 2.4 crore, reports The Daily Star. The former BNP minister surrendered before Dhaka Special Judge Court-2 around 12:30pm, after which the court delivered its sentence. On November 18 of last year, the…
Desk Report: Bangladesh has emerged as the fifth largest wheat importer in the world, with its import of the grain increasing by 36 per cent over the past five years, according to a report of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), reports Prothom Alo. Among the fastest growing importing countries, Bangladesh imported 5.5…