DOT Desk: SS Steel Limited made a flying trading debut as its share price jumped 401 per cent to Tk 50.10 on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday. The engineering sector company made its share trading debut on both the stock exchanges in the country under “N” category, reports The Financial Express BD. Its…
DOT Desk: Four domestic flights of different airlines have missed their departure schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka yesterday, reports The Financial Express BD. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was scheduled to depart the airport for Barisal at 8:00am, but it took off at 9:05am, according to sources at Civil Aviation…
UNB: Two passengers of an auto rickshaw were killed as their vehicle collided head on with a speeding bus on Cumilla-Noakhali highway at Chandanabazar village in Laksham upazila on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Idris Mia, 55, resident of Paschimgaon village in Lakhsham municipality and Al-Amin, 35, hailing from Amtali village in the…
UNB: The quality of service has improved greatly in recent months at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH), thanks to the efforts of its Superintendent Dr ATM Monjur Morshed and his staff. The hospital now has six new departments and a Special Care Newborn Unit (SCANU). A psychiatric ward has also started functioning while the Burn…
DOT Desk: Cultivating high quality tomatoes—using advanced techniques on the land near the Padma River—in Rajbari, has allowed local farmers to prosper. Free of preservatives, Rajbari’s tomatoes are supplied to Dhaka and different districts; after fulfilling local demand, reports Dhaka Tribune. According to the Rajbari Agricultural Expansion office, this year, 834 hectares of farmlands in…
DOT Desk: A woman was crushed to death by a train in Ponthisila Hadipara area in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Thursday, reports The New Age BD. The deceased was identified as Wahida Begum, 62, wife of the late Safiul Alam of Hadipara. She was killed on the spot. Police later recovered the body and…
DOT Desk: Priota Iftekhar, the winner of ‘Miss Culture Worldwide-2018’, says her goal is to inform the world about the culture and heritage of Bangladesh. “I’m elated at such an achievement on the Victory Day,” she told a media briefing, her first since the competition in Zimbabwe in December last year, reports The Independent BD….
DOT Desk: The four-day 14th International Plastic Fair-2019 began at International Convention City, Bashundhara in Dhaka on Thursday. Industries minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun inaugurated the fair at a programme at Radisson Blu Hotel, reports The New Age BD. Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association and Taiwan-based Yorkers Trade and Marketing Service Co Ltd…
DOT Desk: A contract was signed on Thursday between Chattogram City Corporation and Bangladesh Municipal Development Fund aiming to construct a kitchen market in the port city’s Faillatoli area, reports The New Age BD. CCC chief executive officer Md Shamsuddoha and BMDF managing director Syed Hasinur Rahman signed the contract on behalf of their organisations….
DOT Desk: The decision to start the implementation of the criterion of significant market power (SMP) will be finalised at an upcoming meeting of the regulatory body. At the meeting, the top mobile phone operators of the country are likely to be designated ‘SMPs’. Earlier, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) finalised a set of…