America’s New Democracy Movement

    Laura Tyson/Project Syndicate While media coverage since the 2018 US midterm elections has focused squarely on Donald Trump, a growing movement of citizens and activists from across the political spectrum is thinking more broadly about the future of American democracy. And progressive political reforms have been winning support in some unexpected places. In last November’s…

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      Indian firm to invest $10m in Meghna IEZ

      DOT Desk: An Indian private firm is set to make an initial investment of $10 million in one of the country’s economic zones to set up a factory to manufacture liquid ink, reports The financial Express. To this end, Sakata Inx (Bangladesh) Private Limited, a subsidiary of Sakata Inx (India) Private Limited, signed the land…

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        Daily Shopping opens another outlet in Uttara

        Banglanews24: Popular retail shop Daily Shopping has opened another outlet in city’s Uttara for selling grocery items at an affordable cost. With this, Daily Shopping has a chain of five outlets in Uttara. Recently, Eleash Mridha, Managing Director of PRAN Group, inaugurated the outlet located at sector-4 of Uttara. Galib Farrokh Bakht, Assistant General Manager…

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          Ctg port sets new record of container handling

          DOT Desk: The Chittagong port set a new record of handling container in 2018 with the increase of 11.6 per cent compare to 2017, reports The Independent. The country’s premier port handled 25,66,597 TUES (twenty-foot equivalent units) of import, export and empty containers in 2017 while the port handled 25,66,597 TUES in 2018 which is…

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            Low demand cuts gas, power output notably

            DOT Desk: The country’s overall electricity and natural gas production fell drastically over the past several days following a low demand and sloth business activities centering the eleventh parliamentary elections on December 30, reports the Financial Express. The state-run Petrobangla and Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) ‘squeezed’ the country’s overall natural gas and electricity production…

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              BNP informs US envoy about ‘election irregularities’

              UNB: A three-member BNP delegation, led by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, on Friday met US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller and discussed various issues relating to 11th national election held on Sunday. The one-hour-and-a-half-hour meeting that began at 10am was held at the US envoy’s residence. The two other BNP delegation…

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                Modern witch-hunts terrorise New Guinea highlands

                AFP: A spate of brutal witch-hunts has plunged parts of Papua New Guinea’s highlands into a state of terror, as fearful tribes blame dark forces for their rapidly changing world. In one particularly horrifying incident, an elderly woman writhes and pleads hysterically as she is mercilessly beaten, raped and tortured on a hut floor, before…

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                  Shirina, a role model for female farmers

                  DOT Desk: Housewife Shirina Begum, who set an example of producing bumper crops, especially vegetables, on a small land, has now become a role model for many female growers at her native Maynakuti village in Rangpur Sadar upazila, reports The Daily Star. Seeing her success, around 120 women of the village are now engaged in…

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