DOT Desk: Bangladesh Capital Market Expo, a fair on capital market, will start on February 28 next, reports The Financial Express. The fair will be continued till March 2 at Shilpakala Academy in the capital Dhaka, according to a release. Arthosuchak.com, a business web portal, is organising the capital market expo.
NDTV: Lying down on top of an unexploded World War II shell is “strictly ill-advised”, officials on Thursday told a Dutchman who found one in his garden. The man, from Venlo, in the south of country, spent three and a half hours lying over the device when it started whistling after he discovered it Wednesday…
Nasim Ahmed/ Middle East Monitor It was a good idea that didn’t catch on in 2007. Now we’re running out of time. Back in 2007, I wrote a column calling for a “Green New Deal,” and I later expanded on the idea in a book, “Hot, Flat and Crowded.” Barack Obama picked up the theme…
Sky News: A teenage driver has crashed into another car after pulling her hat over her eyes as part of the so-called “Bird Box Challenge”. The 17-year-old was (unsuccessfully) trying to emulate characters from Bird Box, a Sandra Bullock movie where characters are forced to blindfold themselves to escape an apocalypse caused by supernatural beings….
DOT Desk: A section of traders set up wholesale kitchen and fruit markets on many busy roads in the capital, paying extortion to local influential persons, reports The Daily Sun. Locals said some traders grab roadsides to set up kitchen and fruit markets, posing a risk to a road accident. Most of the traders pay…
Banglanews24: February 1, 2 have been fixed to celebrate Jatiya Kabita Utshab on the premises of Dhaka University. The organizers of National Poetry Council made the announcement at a news conference at TSC of DU on Friday (January 11). Poet Asad chowdhury will inaugurate the function. The registration for the festival, as already has begun…
DOT Desk: The government is set to create a database of buyers of government-sponsored savings instruments, reports The Financial Express. The objective behind the creation of database is to see whether the savings opportunity is abused by exceeding the investment limit or making ‘benami’ (fictitious) investments. From February next, the savers will require national identity…
UNB: Healthy Heart Happy Life Organization (HELO) on Friday distributed warm clothes among 700 cold-hit poor people in Raumari upazila of Kurigram. HELO members distributed blankets, jackets and sweaters among the poor people at the Baitkamari Govt Primary School field, said a press release. HELO General Secretary Dr Asifur Rahman Sazal said they have also…
Monirul Alam of DOT The cost of living in Bangladesh increased by 6 percent in the calendar year 2018 compared to the previous year, said Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) yesterday. CAB said it has monitored and analysed prices of foodstuffs, daily essentials, services and house rent in the city and other urban cities and…
Sky News: Dozens of seals have become stranded in a Canadian town after waters they used to navigate from the ocean froze over. Police in Roddickton-Bide Arm, Newfoundland, have confirmed that at least two of the 40 or so animals to have become cut off have died – many likely hit by cars. Mayor Sheila…