DOT Desk: With lucrative market price as well as bumper production, good number of potato farmers of Bogura district is expecting to be self-reliant this season, reports The Financial Express. The farmers generally spend approximately Tk 10,000 to 12,000 to grow potato on one bigha of land and they get over eighty maunds of fresh…
DOT Desk: Local influential persons have grabbed a large portion of Dhupkhola Math in Gendaria, depriving children of sporting entertainment, reports The Daily Sun. The sprawling open space has been turned into a parking lot of trucks, rickshaws, human hauliers and other vehicles in connivance of the officials of Dhaka South City Corporation and local…
DOT Desk: A move is well under way to make private insurance employees’ as “public servants” with intent to bring them under a legal framework, reports The Financial Express. The people working at the Financial Institutions Division under the Ministry of Finance are examining the issue. The division has so far met twice on the…
BDnews24: The government has appointed private secretaries to ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers of the new cabinet. Forty-five government officials holding the rank of deputy secretary and one official with the rank of assistant secretary were appointed as private secretaries to the new ministers in two orders issued by the public administration ministry…
Abrar Hussain of DOT The head of the United Nations in Myanmar expressed concern about the situation in the western state of Rakhine, where fighting between the military and the rebel Arakan Army has displaced about 4,500 people since early December. Knut Ostby, who acts as the resident coordinator for the United Nations, said in…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today claimed to have detained three men in Chattogram, Bogura and Rajshahi for allegedly spreading photoshopped images and making derogatory comments about the prime minister on social media, reports The Daily Star. In Chattogram, Rab-7 arrested Md Tofazzal Hossen Helal, 40, a carpenter early today for allegedly…
UNB: A suspected criminal was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Satnal Jora Bridge in Manirampur upazila of Jashore. The deceased was identified as Billal Hossain, 19, son of Golam Mostafa of Fedaipur village in the upazila. Shahidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Manirampur Police Station, said Billal abducted Zahid Hossain, a Class IV student…
Hasaan Khawar, Public policy expert and an honorary Fellow of Consortium for Development Policy Research/ The Express Tribune The Supreme Court of Pakistan recently gave a month’s notice to parliament to amend the ‘voluntary return’ provision in the National Accountability Ordinance. In its election manifesto, the PTI already committed to address the legal lacunas in…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Police have arrested two suspects over the murder of two children in Dhaka’s Demra, reports bdnews24.com. Golam Mostofa, 31, and his cousin Azizul Baowani, 32, allegedly strangled the two girls to death after attempting rape, police said yesterday. The ceramics workers were caught during raids at Jatrabari’s Bhanga Press and…
DOT Desk: It has been a decade since the Awami League-led alliance came to power with a promise to build a highly digitized nation, labeled as ‘Digital Bangladesh’, by the year 2021, reports The Financial Express. Now that the same alliance is taking over the reins for the third consecutive term, leaders within the ICT…