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…
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…
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…
Elizabeth Nelson/ The Guardian, UK A proxy voting system would have saved the heavily pregnant Labour MP the trip – it’s clear why the Tory party doesn’t want one. Obscure parliamentary procedures are currently all the rage, from John Bercow’s controversial deviation from precedence in selecting amendments to business motions and the arcane voting procedure…
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…
Vikram Patel/The Indian Express As we mature into adulthood and older age, it is our social relationships, not the number but their quality, which will determine how long we live and the quality of these years of life. If the pursuit of a long and healthy life is the central goal of medicine, indeed humanity…
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…
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…