Plastic fair begins in Dhaka

    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…

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      Contract signed to construct kitchen market in Chattogram city

      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….

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        BTRC moves fast to break monopoly of telcos

        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…

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          Rural people happy as electricity reaches door steps

          BSS: Rural people in Khulna are happy as electricity has reached their door steps, making their lives easier. Consumers of Khulna villages do not need to hang around behind the officers and employees of Khulna Palli Biddyut Samity (Rural Electricity Samity) of Khulna. Employees of the Samity are now going to consumers’ doors with a…

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            The fight over men is shaping our political future

            Thomas B Edsall/The New York Times How you see the role of men and women at work and at home has become an integral element of contemporary political conflict. Until recently, most of the attention has been focused on partisan evaluations of problems confronting women. A 2017 Pew Research report found, for example, that by…

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              2020 Democrats’ unspoken rebuke of Obama

              Ryan Cooper/The Week Former President Barack Obama’s legacy looms over the 2020 Democratic primary. He was always overwhelmingly popular among Democrats and since leaving office he’s become more broadly liked among the rest of the non-Republican population due to a post-presidential glow and the jarring contrast he makes with President Trump. However, a persistent core…

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                Impeach Donald Trump

                Yoni Appelbaum/The Atlantic Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs. Donald Trump stood on the steps of the Capitol, raised his right hand, and solemnly swore to faithfully execute the office of president of the United…

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                  A Murder in Gdańsk

                  Sławomir Sierakowski/Project Syndicate The assassination of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz at a fundraising event for Poland’s most beloved charity culminates years of fear-mongering about the country’s opposition and judiciary by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. And now the PiS has chosen the wrong scapegoat for Adamowicz’s murder. The murder of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł…

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