DOT Desk: The two-day Pran Premium Ghee-Anandadhara Pitha Fest was inaugurated by Mahfuz Anam, Editor and Publisher, The Daily Star in the presence of Laila Hasan, Tariq Anam Khanand Abdus Selim and representatives from the title sponsor, co-sponsors, hospitality partner and media partner, reports The Daily Star. On behalf of the title sponsor, Pran Premium…
DOT Desk: The progress in work on the government’s ‘fast-track’ Padma railway link project is slow and the authorities want to surrender 38 per cent of its allocated funds this year, reports The Financial Express. Officials said on Friday the Bangladesh Railway (BR) sought to lower its annual allocation to Tk 32.90 billion from current…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Foreign Minister Prof Dr AK Abdul Momen has expressed high hopes that Bangladesh will ensure sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030, reports Dhaka Tribune. “To achieve the sustainable development goals, we all have to work together. We want to establish a society where everyone will get equal opportunity,” said Minister Momen…
Neil Macdonald, Opinion columnist/ CBC News From fiscal policy, to trade, to war — Trump has been an objective ally for those on the left I shouldn’t, but I delight in discussing Donald Trump’s presidency with friends on the left.Not to commiserate over what a pig the man is (calling someone a pig is presidential…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh’s economy needs to grow at a rate of 8.0 per cent or more in the coming years to absorb the country’s growing labour force, a recent government report has suggested, reports The Financial Express. At the same time, attracting more foreign direct investment along with other forms of foreign resources will be…
DOT Desk: Khulna City Corporation (KCC) is going to implement a project to develop quality livelihood of marginal people involving Taka 4.5 crore by next month, reports The Daily Observer. The project includes giving monthly financial assistance and providing education support to the children of marginal people. The activities will continue at 30 wards of…
DOT Desk: Local fabric manufacturers are keen to increase their share in the global market on the back of the quality and diversified range of products they make, said businesspeople, reports The Daily Star. Some of them are taking part at Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital to brand and…
Rahat Islam of DOT Taliban negotiators and US officials met in Qatar yesterday finalized clauses in a draft agreement to end the 17-year-old Afghan war, according to Taliban sources. US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is reprotedly heading to Afghan capital Kabul to brief President Ashraf Ghani on the progress after the end of the…
DOT Desk: The last four years have been the world’s hottest since record-keeping began, with 2018 the fourth warmest on record, according to data published Thursday by US research group Berkeley Earth, reports The Daily Sun. Temperatures in 2018 were around 1.16 degrees Celsius above the average temperature of the second half of the 19th…
Science Alert: No matter how abundant or renewable, solar power has a thorn in its side. There is still no cheap and efficient long-term storage for the energy that it generates. The solar industry has been snagged on this branch for a while, but in the past year alone, a series of four papers has…