Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the international community including Vietnam to keep up pressure on the Myanmar government to take back their forcibly displaced nationals from Bangladesh, reports BSS. “Myanmar must take back their nationals from Bangladesh and we want the global community to help their repatriation from here,”…
Oddity Centre: Ajay Munot, a rich businessman in Maharashtra, India, has recently built and donated 90 houses to the poor, instead of spending the money on a lavish wedding for his daughter. Munot had been planning to spend Rs 70-80 lakh ($115,000) on his daughter Shreya’s wedding, but after consulting with a local politician, he…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) on Tuesday demolished some structures built illegally on the banks of the river Buriganga, reports The Daily Sun. BIWTA officials conducted the demolition drive in Kholamora Ghat area under Kamrangichar and Keraniganj in the capital. “We’ve demolished a seven-storey building constructed illegally on the riverbank,” said BIWTA…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has said some of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in the recently-held 11th parliamentary election were faulty, reports Dhaka Tribune. He made the statement at an inaugural session of EVM training for the upcoming upazila polls, held at the Election Training Institute (ETI),…
DOT Desk: The Depart-ment of Archaeology in Barishal is preparing to take over the Lakhutia Zamindar Bari and temple, one of the oldest archaeological sites in Barishal division, reports The Daily Star. The office has already sent a field investigation report to its head office in Dhaka requesting them to take necessary steps to acquire…
BDNews24: The two were part of a gang that allegedly tried to rob a house in Nagri Union’s Rathora village around 1:30am Wednesday, said Kaliganj Police OC Md Abu Bakar Mia. The deceased men were between 35 to 40 years of age. Police could not immediately provide details of their identities. A gang of seven…
DOT Desk: Illegal sand lifting from the Kumar river in Char Durgapur area under Ishan Gopalpur union of Sadar upazila poses a threat to agriculture and the people living along the river, reports The Daily Star. During a recent visit, this correspondent saw workers extracting sand from the riverbed with a diesel-run dredger. The sand…
DOT Desk: “Nitol Paye Ilik Jhilik” is a hugely popular song from Fuad. The song was voiced by Rajib. Now the song has been selected for a film named “Prem Amaar-2”. For the film the song has been recorded again with singer Imran Mahmudul. It has already been published on YouTube, reports The Daily Observer….
DOT Desk: Researchers at Khulna University are claiming to have developed salinity-tolerant varieties of fruits, raising the prospects for fruit production in the country’s coastal areas, reports The Daily Star. The experiment has reached its final stage and farmers will be able to cultivate these new varieties within the next three years, said the researchers….
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