DOT Desk: A sailor has gone missing after two goods-laden vessels sank near Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday, reports BDnews24. The lighter vessels were both headed to Narayanganj from Chittagong Port, said Mohammad Selim, deputy director of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA). The missing sailor was working on the…
DOT Desk: Farmers in the district are upset due to fall in prices of paddy in the local markets to below the production cost, and some of them have lost interest in cultivating paddy in future, reports The Daily Star. Farmers said they sold paddy at Tk 700 to Tk 730 per maund (1 maund…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Education Minister Dipu Moni has revealed that the government will work sincerely to wipe out corruption from all sectors, including education. “We’re moving forward, we’ve many aims. Eliminating corruption from all sectors, including education, is our election pledge. The government is working on it,” she said at a discussion marking the…
DOT Desk: Around 50 national and international outlets are selling women’s clothing Local and foreign clothing is attracting many visitors, especially women, at the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), reports The Dhaka Tribune. Items such as Jamdani sarees, handloom sarees, Kashmiri shawls, and local ready-made clothing are in high demand and selling well. AM Rafiqullah,…
DOT Desk: Popular art magazine Shilpoprobha has stepped into its 7th year journey. To celebrate the occasion, the Shilpoprobha team honoured six distinguished artists with lifetime achievement awards. The event was held at Gulshan’s Edge Gallery on January 22. Society for Promotion of Bangladesh Art organised the programme, reports The Daily Star. The distinguished artists…
Anand Kochukudy/ QUARTZ Priyanka Gandhi became the latest member of India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty to officially join politics yesterday (Jan. 23). The 47-year-old Gandhi has been appointed her party the Indian National Congress’s general secretary in-charge of the eastern block of the crucial bellwether state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in northern India. The fifth generation…
Christiana Figueres &Greta Thunberg/ The Washington Post Climate change is an existential threat to humanity and already a matter of life and death for many, but it is just one issue among many on the agenda at this year’s World Economic Forum. It should be the number one priority and should sit at the center…
Hossen Sohel of DOT BNP will divide because of its own intra-party conflicts, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday, reports The Daily Star. “We have no need to divide the politics of BNP. They will perish because of their own conflicts,” he said at a programme. “BNP has its enemies within itself….
BSS: Farmers in the district have started cotton harvesting with a production target of 750 metric tonnes (MTs) of seed cotton in the current season. Sources concerned said the farmers cultivated different varieties of cotton seeds on 225 hectares of land in the district this year. Amid a favourable climatic condition, a total of 1650…
Z. F. Hassan/DESI blitz Tandoori chicken is delicious and everyone knows it’s a dish popular all over the world. But where did it originate? Tandoori chicken tastes wonderful and anyone who has tried it can relate to that. It can be easily found whether you live in the UK or in any part of South…