DOT Desk: Newly-appointed Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury ordered all officials of his ministry to submit their wealth statements within the next month, reports the Daily Observer. “The Land Ministry will be brought under the purview of accountability and freed from corruption,” he told journalists at the city’s Press Club. “I will pay abrupt visits to…
UNB: Perched on hills overlooking the borders of Bangladesh, India and Myanmar, sits the small village of Bogakhali. It is a remote place in every sense of the word. Reaching it by land is a herculean task as it takes nearly seven days to get there from Rangamati Sadar Upazila. One has to walk almost…
DOT Desk: Oncologists on Saturday blamed early marriage and absence of precursor screening for the high incidence of cervical cancer in Bangladesh. But they also expressed the view at a discussion that if diagnosed at the early stage cervical cancer was found to be preventable and treatable in most cases, reports The New Age. March…
DOT Desk: Although there are couple of weeks more to an ending winter, some of the mango trees have started sprouting early in Rajshahi region, reports The Financial Express. Mango trees are sprouting early at various places like Vatapara, Gourhanga, Bheripara, Police line, Malopara, Meherchandi and Bhadra in the city. But extent of flowering is…
Anadolu Agency: The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will decommission 40,000 combatants of its Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAFF) when the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) will be ratified, local media reported on Sunday. A plebiscite will be held on Jan. 21 and Feb. 6 to ratify the bill and once the BOL is ratified, the…
Science Alert: Reproductive coercive control is where a woman’s decisions about contraception and pregnancy are interfered with. The concept was first described in 2010. We wanted to update the evidence to 2017 and widen the range of control activities to include family pressure and criminal behaviour, such as sex trafficking. We found that up to…
DOT Desk: During the Rabi season, potato is known as the cash crop in Baghmara Upazila of the district. The local fields are full of potato trees of one to one and a half months old. Meanwhile, because of dense fog in the morning for last three to four days, the farmers are worried about…
DOT Desk: A government delegation will go to Darul Uloom Deoband in India on January 15 for settling the ongoing row between two factions of Bangladesh Tabligh Jamaat over Maulana Muhammad Saad Al Kandhalvi’s leadership, reports The New Age. The eight-member delegation, led by state minister for religious affairs Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, will talk to…
CNN: The world’s biggest cigarette seller, Philip Morris International (PMI), is making the “the biggest shift” in its history as it pledged to replace traditional cigarettes with smoke-free products. The international tobacco giant, the producer of popular Marlboro and Parliament, as well as more than a dozen other brands, wants to switch hundreds of…
Raj Ahmed of DOT Law Minister Anisul Huq claimed that the government is ‘continuously’ trying to bring back BNP senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman to Bangladesh, reported The Daily Star. “The government is trying to bring back all fugitive convicts including Tarique Rahman to the country for putting them on trial,” the minister said yesterday…