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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sustir Sarker, Netrokona corespondent Barhatta upazila adjacent to Netrokona district Area 221.50 sq km. Total population is 158133. Most of the upazilas of the upazila were surrounded by the Kangso and Kounal rivers. Barhatta was converted to Thana in 1905 and it was turned into an upazila in 1983. Parliamentary seat of Netrakona-Barhatta. The 28th…
Tech Explorist: Scientists and engineers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a tiny, implantable device that can detect overactivity in the bladder and then use light from tiny, biointegrated LEDs to tamp down the urge to urinate. The device works in laboratory rats and one day may help people…
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…
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…
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…