DOT Desk: The fourth death anniversary of Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of Bangladesh Nationalist Party founder Ziaur Rahman and current chairperson Khaleda Zia, was observed yesterday. On January 24, 2015, Koko died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 45 at a rented house in Malaysia. His body was brought back home…
DOT Desk: Import of industrial raw materials increased by nearly 12 per cent during the July-October period in 2018 compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, reports The Financial Express. The rise in import was because of the fast growth in local investments, sources said. Economists attributed the increase in investment to political…
DOT Desk: Police rescued an old woman, Mridul Saha, 80, from a house in No. 15 Ward of Feni Municipality, reports The Daily Observer. She is wife of late Haripad Saha and mother of three sons and two daughters. She was living in the house alone. On Tuesday, finding no response from inside the house,…
BSS: Over 6,000 youths (both male and female) in Narsingdi district became self-reliant receiving training from Skill Development center of BSCIC during the last 28 years. Assistant General Manager of BSCIC Industries Service center Shazzad Hossain told BSS that the BSCIC skill development center imparted institutional training to 7,700 youth (both male and female) on…
Imad Zafar/ Asia Times After fracturing Nawaz Sharif‘s mandate and injuring him politically, the invisible forces are now busy tightening the noose on the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Asif Ali Zardari, and his aides. Because of the way things were designed, it was not difficult to understand that sooner or later the…
Abrar Hussain of DOT BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the government is conspiring to split their party. “Many plots are now going on to weaken BNP and split it. They (govt) also tried to do so in the past, but failed,” he said while speaking at a milad mahfil at…
BSS: A three-day interschool science fair ended here on Wednesday with a call for making science and technology popular and projecting new innovations. The fair is aimed at encouraging young scientists towards building a science-oriented nation. Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research organized the industrial science and technology fair-2019 on its Rajshahi campus. “To…
Monirul Alam of DOT Finding high lending rates of private banks unfavourable in raising credit to private sector, a former finance advisor to caretaker government observed that the central bank should look into interest rates on different credit products. The Bangladesh Bank’s (BB) January 2019 data shows most of the private banks charge double digit…
DOT Desk: Massive mango flowering here in Bogura district is predicting a bumper output this season as a large number of the mango trees have already started sprouting early, Reports The Financial Express. This year, farmers of Dupchanchia, Adamdighi, Kahaloo, Nandigram, Serpur, Sonatola, Gabtoly, Shibganj, Shajhanpura, Sairakandi and Sadar upazilas of the district have taken…
Sara Parker & Kay Standing/The Conversation, Australia The tragic recent deaths of a mother and her two sons in a chhaupadi hut in Nepal has again brought the issue of this exclusionary practice to the forefront of international human rights and media attention.Despite being illegal, chhaupadi, the practice of exiling menstruating women and girls from…