BSS: Poultry scientists and researchers at a discussion here have unequivocally called for promoting bio-safety measures in poultry farming for producing safe poultry meat. They also mentioned substantial and sustainable promotion of bio-safety measures can be the vial means of curtailing the dependence on antibiotics in poultry sector. They came up with the observation while…
DOT Desk: Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) AHM Khairuzzaman Liton yesterday said more than 50 garments and other industries will be established in Rajshahi city in the next five years, reports The Independent BD. “We are committed to expanding industrial area to cut the existing burden of unemployment here,” he said while addressing a…
DOT Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission has identified procurement of unnecessary machines, pilferage of medicine from public hospitals forcing patients to buy medicines from market, trapping patients at public hospitals and taking to them private clinics, prescribing substandard drugs because of aggressive marketing as major corruptions in the health sector in Bangladesh, reports The New age….
DOT Desk: SS Steel Limited made a flying trading debut as its share price jumped 401 per cent to Tk 50.10 on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday. The engineering sector company made its share trading debut on both the stock exchanges in the country under “N” category, reports The Financial Express BD. Its…
DOT Desk: Four domestic flights of different airlines have missed their departure schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka yesterday, reports The Financial Express BD. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was scheduled to depart the airport for Barisal at 8:00am, but it took off at 9:05am, according to sources at Civil Aviation…
UNB: Two passengers of an auto rickshaw were killed as their vehicle collided head on with a speeding bus on Cumilla-Noakhali highway at Chandanabazar village in Laksham upazila on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Idris Mia, 55, resident of Paschimgaon village in Lakhsham municipality and Al-Amin, 35, hailing from Amtali village in the…
UNB: The quality of service has improved greatly in recent months at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH), thanks to the efforts of its Superintendent Dr ATM Monjur Morshed and his staff. The hospital now has six new departments and a Special Care Newborn Unit (SCANU). A psychiatric ward has also started functioning while the Burn…
DOT Desk: Cultivating high quality tomatoes—using advanced techniques on the land near the Padma River—in Rajbari, has allowed local farmers to prosper. Free of preservatives, Rajbari’s tomatoes are supplied to Dhaka and different districts; after fulfilling local demand, reports Dhaka Tribune. According to the Rajbari Agricultural Expansion office, this year, 834 hectares of farmlands in…
DOT Desk: A woman was crushed to death by a train in Ponthisila Hadipara area in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Thursday, reports The New Age BD. The deceased was identified as Wahida Begum, 62, wife of the late Safiul Alam of Hadipara. She was killed on the spot. Police later recovered the body and…
DOT Desk: Priota Iftekhar, the winner of ‘Miss Culture Worldwide-2018’, says her goal is to inform the world about the culture and heritage of Bangladesh. “I’m elated at such an achievement on the Victory Day,” she told a media briefing, her first since the competition in Zimbabwe in December last year, reports The Independent BD….