BDNews24: The four officers – Sanjida Hossain, Syeda Nazia Royhan and Farhana Afrin, and Sarah Amir – have been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel. Army Chief of Staff General Aziz Ahmed adorned them with the Lt Col rank badges at a ceremony at the Army Headquarters in Dhaka on Thursday, the Inter Services Public…
DOT Desk: The new government is making desperate attempts to explore fresh oil and natural gas in the country’s onshore blocks to maximise the country’s energy outputs, officials said, reports The Daily Star. “We are reviewing the non-prospective wells and dropping those from the plan. Only prospective wells are being considered for drilling,” a top…
DOT Desk: After coming to power for the fourth time, the Awami Leaque-led Grand Alliance government is going to enact the Bangladesh Marine Zone Act, 2019 to declare and determine maritime zones and suppress piracy, armed robbery, and theft, and make provisions for punishment, reports The Independent. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has prepared a…
DOT Desk: People of Chatmohar upazila have been spending sleepless nights patrolling different villages in the upazila with law enforcers for the last one week due to a rise in theft and robberies from the beginning of this month, reports The daily Star. Around 250 villagers of 11 unions in the upazila are guarding 50…
DOT Desk: A balloon vendor was killed and around seven to ten students were injured as a gas cylinder exploded at a school premises in Dhaka’s Mirpur area, reports The Daily Star. The incident took place around 7:45am when the vendor was pumping helium balloons for decorating the Dhaka Shikkha Board Laboratory School and College…
DOT Desk: Mobile banking transactions maintained a momentous growth in 2018, albeit at a much lower rate than the previous years, reports The Financial Express. The latest data of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) shows that transactions worth around Tk 3.79 trillion took place through mobile financial service (MFS) platforms last year. The figure is around…
DOT Desk: Prices of spices declined last week giving some comforts to the consumers battered by rising costs of staple food rice and protein items, reports The Financial Express. Vegetables prices showed both upward and downward trends in the week when most of other essential items remained stable. The prices of onion, garlic and ginger…
UNB: Bangladesh Navy athletes Ismail Hossain and Shirin Akter emerged as the fasted man and woman of the country after winning their respective 100-metre sprint titles of the Walton 42nd National Athletics Championship that began on Thursday at the Bangabandhu National Stadium here. State Minister for Youth and Sports M Zahid Ahsan Russel inaugurated the…
Sustir Sarker, Netrokona Correspondent: Netro- kona district’s lawyer’s organization Netrokona Dirstict Bar elected representatives of the next year through direct voting. Advocate Sitangshu Bikash Acharya as the President and General Secretary Advocate Aminul Huq Khan Mukul was elected as the Convener of 17 posts. Yesterday (24/01/2019) the voting starts peacefully from 9am and continuously begins…
DOT Desk: Motorcycle registrations across the country witnessed a significant rise in 2018 compared to that of 2017. A total of 395,603 motorcycles were registered in 2018 while the number was 326,550 in 2017, according to statistics provided by the Bangladesh Road Tran-sport Authority, reports The Financial Express. The data also showed that the number…