BSS: Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) today distributed 500 blankets among cold-hit poor and distressed people at a ceremony on RCCI Public School and College ground here. The RCCI with the assistance of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) distributed the blankets among the cold-stricken people to mitigate their sufferings under their…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Around 900 metres of the much-hyped Padma Bridge is visible now following the installation of another span named F-6 on the pillars no 36 and 37 yesterday, reports The Financial Express. The 150 metre span, weighing 3,140 tones, was installed at Jajira point around 10:00 am. This is the sixth span of…
Monirul Alam of DOT The prime challenge of Bangladesh Bank’s monetary policy is to increase credit flow to the private sector during the remaining periods of current financial year (FY), from January to June 2019, insiders observed yesterday. This challenge emerged out of the sluggish credit growth to private sector — 5.65 percent of six…
Maj Gen (retd) Abdur Rashid speaks to DOT There is no international pressure behind the influx of Rohingyas from India. Pressure is on to take back the Rohingyas from Bangladesh. The international pressure has grown even more. In recent times, some Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from India. There are some 40,000 Rohingyas in…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed writes for DOT All present there are 80 prison cells in Bangladesh. Among them, there are 4 central jails, 30 district prisons, 27 sub-jails and 16 thana jails. About fifty thousand prisoners are accommodated in these jails but in reality the number is over one lac. All prisoners are not guilty…
Afsan Chowdhury speaks to DOT National Oikyafront will survive if it joins Parliament, but will disintegrate if it chooses not to. National Oikyafront was made up of several opposition parties. If these all decide to join parliament, they’ll remain united even outside the House. If they choose not to, it’ll be impossible for them to…
Arafat Hasan of DOT : The Election Commission has announced the schedule for the Dhaka North City Corporation by-polls, reported The Daily Star. After a meeting at the Nirbachan Bhaban yesterday evening, Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed announced that the election schedule will commence from February 28. Elections to the councilor posts in the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Noted musician and freedom fighter Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul passed away at the age of 63 at his Aftabnagar residence in Dhaka this morning. He was taken to Universal Medical College and Hospital around 6:15am, where the doctors, after necessary tests, declared him dead, Dr Ashis Chakraborti, managing director of the…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT : Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered an oath to the new law makers who won in the 11th parliamentary election on January 3, following the publication of a gazette. Following this, a High Court bench of justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and justice Razik Al Jalil on Monday set January 31…
Syed Badrul Ahsan writes for DOT : Seventy three years after he died or went missing, in the corporeal sense of the meaning, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose continues to exert tremendous influence on Bengali lives. It is therefore only natural that we go back to him and try to understand the man and the politics…