BSS: An all-time record quantity of 84.67-lakh kg ‘made-tea’ worth Taka 204 crore was produced last year in the ‘Kartoa Valley’ ecological zone comprising of five sub-Himalayan northern districts. “The produced quantity of 84.67-lakh kg ‘made-tea’ in 2018 is higher by 55.64 percent than the output of 54.40-lakh kg in 2017 in the valley,” said…
DOT Desk: The central bank has strengthened monitoring and supervision as the first half (H1) of this fiscal year (FY) has witnessed a fall in the disbursement of agriculture loans by nearly 5.0 per cent, officials said, reports The financial Express. As per its latest move, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) is set to meet with…
DOT Desk: With noticeable assistance of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) tomato farming has changed fate of hundreds of poor farmers in Bogura district, reports The Financial Express. Getting repeated bumper production and fair market prices in previous years, the farmers have emphasised on tomato farming in a large scale across the region this season….
BDNews24: A woman in Chattogram’s Mirsharai Upazila has killed her husband by running a saw over his throat. She was reportedly abused by her alcoholic husband Sanatan Majumder. Jorarganj Police Station OC Iftekhar Hassan said that the police arrested Lucky Majumder immediately after she killed her husband at Dewanpur Banik Para. on Monday mid-night. The…
Penn State: A new method to measure the temperature of atoms during the explosive death of a star will help scientists understand the shock wave that occurs as a result of this supernova explosion. An international team of researchers, including a Penn State scientist, combined observations of a nearby supernova remnant — the structure remaining…
DOT Desk: Small and medium entrepreneurs’ loan from banks and non-bank financial institutions declined by 6.01 per cent or Tk 7,391.28 crore in January-September period of the year 2018 compared with that in the same period of the year 2017, reports The New Age. As per a recently released central bank report, banks and NBFIs…
UNB: Border Guard Bangladesh seized the hauls yesterday. Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have seized 42kg of cannabis and 264 bottles of phensedyl—worth Tk5.25 lakh—in separate drives, at different border points in Jessore. The drives, conducted by BGB, started around 10pm on Monday and lasted till early Tuesday. Commanding Officer of BGB 49 Battalion…
DOT Desk: Uber has given scholarship to the daughter of Shahanaj Akter, the woman who came to limelight after her story of earning her income through the ridesharing app surfaced on social media, reports The Daily Star. Her daughters received the scholarships under the GenerationNext Initiative – a programme to arrange opportunities and scholarships for…
DOT Desk: Although Mayda Government Primary School under Amragachhia union in Mirzaganj upazila was established in 1940, the institution is facing serious student crisis, reports The Daily Star. During a visit to the school on January 12 this correspondent found only three students were present in the school, but the school head teacher Farida Yesmin…
Gwyn D’Mello/ India Times When Apple first debuted the iPhone in 2007, it was a phenomenal success. No one had ever seen anything like it. Now, the pioneering smartphone has lost some of its luster. That happens a lot in tech but the question is, can Apple survive the fallout from that? At the start…