Abrar Hussain of DOT The High Court granted bail yesterday to two former inspectors general of police who were sentenced to two years in prison in the August 21 grenade attack case, reported The Daily Star. The High Court bench of Justice Sheikh Abdul Awal and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty accepted the appeal petitions of former…
Tech Explorist: Chocolate is on the tip of everyone’s tongue – not only as a gently melting treat. Every time we taste chocolate, it is a wonderful memory for us. A survey conducted on chocoholic people in UK suggests that 10 million chocolate lovers would be willing to break the law if there was a…
Eurek Alert: Children’s heads expand steadily to accommodate their growing brains and doctors routinely measure head circumference during the first years of life to assess healthy brain development. Children from around the world follow similar patterns of head growth and final head size has been largely achieved by the age of six years. “We know…
NDTV: In today’s edition of ‘It happens only in Australia’ – a family that found a python inside their toilet. Two pictures that are going viral on Facebook show a huge python inside a toilet at a Brisbane home. According to local reports, the snake was discovered by a family from Wynnum West in their…
BSS: Outgoing Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed called on President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban here on yesterday afternoon. “The navy chief apprised the President of the overall development activities of Bangladesh Naval Force,” President’s Press Secretary Joynal Abedin told BSS after the meeting. He said the navy chief expressed his…
UNB: A suspected robber sustained bullet injuries in a reported gunfight with police on Chandpara road in Panchbibi upazila early Monday. The injured is Chhana Miah of Jhilail village and accused in several robbery cases. Bazlar Rahman, officer-in-charge of Panchbibi Police Station, said that on information that a gang of robbers was taking preparation for…
Monirul Alam of DOT The physical progress in construction work of Padma Multipurpose Bridge (PMB) stood 63 percent of total project, Road Transport and Bridge Division Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday. While speaking with reporters at his Bridge Division office in the city’s Banani, Quader also said that the underwater dredging for creating road and…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Agricultural experts have warned that vegetable consumption rate of vegetables in the country is still very poor in, despite production increasing by 35.24% over the last five years (from2013-14 to 2017-18 FY), reports UNB. According to officials at the Department of Agricultural Extension (DoAE), some 26,230,927 metric tons of vegetables were…
DOT Desk: Smokeless tobacco use marked a sharp rise among the drug addicts in recent times. Because of easy availability of smokeless tobacco, also called Sadapata, drug addicts, mostly Yaba and hemp addicts, have resorted to it to satisfy their addiction, reports The Daily Sun. “Now, it is very hard to get Yaba and hemp…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The Supreme Court has deferred the hearing on Accord, the European agency for factory inspection and remediation, to February 18, reports The Daily Star. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after a hearing today. The apex court also fixed the…