Rahima Ali Mukta, Faculty & Award Coordinator Duke of Edinburgh, American Standard International School Our economy is growing fast. Recently if you look around it’s quite difficult to find someone in Dhaka city who is unemployed! I am saying this cause starting from teenagers to middle aged whether male or female doing something to earn…
UNB: A two-day special conference on Delta Plan 2100 is scheduled to start from Friday to inform the people about the long-term strategy and identify its strength and weaknesses. Experts from home and abroad, with representatives of areas covered under the plan will take part in ‘Delta Plan 2100 and sustainable development of Bangladesh’. It…
DOT Desk: Different kinds of winter vegetables are being cultivated on 55,554 hectares of land in Sylhet division, reports The Financial Express. The crops include vegetables of all kinds including gourd, sweet gourd, radish, bean, tomato, cucumber, red spinach, pumpkin, cauliflower, cabbage, egg plant and taro etc. Contacted, an official at the divisional office of…
DOT Desk: Dhaka Uni-versity Film Society held the 125th World Film Manifestation Programme on fantasy films at three different venues in the capital from December 6 to 8, reports The anew Age. Organised in association with Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and Alliance Francaise de Dhaka, the three-day programme screened six local, German and French fantasy films. The…
BSS: Over 500 grassroots people at a folk-show here on Tuesday expressed their commitment of resisting terrorism and militancy collectively. They also took oath of supplementing the government efforts for freeing the country from the curse of terrorism and militancy. Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organization (ASSEDO) organized the folk-show ‘Gamvira’ on Dogachhi Government Primary…
Himanjali Sankar/ Scroll.In An excerpt from Himanjali Sankar’s ‘The Lies We Tell’, told from the point of view of 17-year-old Irfan Ahmed. I didn’t do it. Why would I send Uma’s photo, that was meant only for me, to Rishi and Abhishek and a bunch of other random classmates? It was for me. Why would…
DOT Desk: The government will establish a cancer hospital and a kidney hospital in each divisional city as the number of cancer and kidney patients are on the rise in the country, new Health Minister Zahid Malik has said, reports The Daily Sun. “A kidney unit comprising 10 beds will be set up in every…
Mihir Sharma, Columnist and author/ Gulf News Prime Minister Hasina will have to rebuild the institutions that have been destroyed Bangladesh under Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina looks like a developing-world success story. Last year, its economy grew at close to eight per cent a year, faster than its neighbour India’s. Its human development indicators, as…
CNBC: The United Nations has asked Australia to consider refugee resettlement for an 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled to Thailandsaying she feared her family would kill her, the Australian government said yesterday. The teenager, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, arrived in Bangkok on the weekend appealing for asylum. Australia said it would consider resettling her if the…
DOT Desk: Workers and drivers of BRTC bus depot at Joar Sahara called off their strike this noon on an assurance by the authorities that their arrears will be paid in full by August this year, report The Daily Star. The protesters called off their strike around 11:45am after a “fruitful” meeting with the BRTC…