DOT Desk: Tomato growers of the Brahmaputra river basin areas in Sadar upazila are happy as they are getting bumper yield and good price, thanks to favourable weather, reports The Daily Star. This season, tomato was cultivated on 1,300 hectares of land in the river basin areas under Lakkhirchar, Tulsirchar, Narundi and Ranagachha unions of…
DOT Desk: All the twelve Open Market Sale (OMS) outlets in the town reopened after being closed for around one month as there was no allocation of ata (coarse flour) by the ministry concerned during that period, reports The Daily Star. The ultra poor people from slums, remote villages and char areas crowded around the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday claimed arrest of nine persons, members of the biggest question leakster ring busted till date, reports The Daily Star. They law enforcers say, with these arrests, thus far 46 members of the ring have been held and that the group has been uprooted completely. Those arrested…
DOT Desk: The mobile wallet market in Bangladesh is likely to gain momentum in 2019 as a global report forecasts its growth to USD 250 billion by 2024 from over USD 100 billion in 2017, according to experts, reports The Independent. Mobile Financial Service (MFS) experts said the size of the mobile wallet market was…
UNB: Minister for Liberation War Affairs AKM Mozammel Huq on Thursday said that memorials will be built at Alokdia, Muslimbari and Zalladkhana in Mirpur area where mass killings were taken place in 1971. “These projects will be implemented as part of the national plan to reserve the memory of the liberation war,” said the minister…
DOT Desk: Mutual Trust Bank Limited distributed winter clothes among poor. Bogura Branch Manager SPV Mohammad Iftekhar Hasan distributed the winter clothes as chief guest at Government Primary School in the district town, reports The Daily Observer. RIC has been implementing different programme for the elderly people for long. Sapahar Upazila Parishad Chairman Alhaz Shamsul…
DOT Desk: Mostly run by first generation entrepreneurs, almost all family businesses (FBs) in Bangladesh are expected to grow in the next two years, contributing significantly to the economy’s growth story, according to the findings of a survey in the country, reports The Financial Express. The Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) has conducted the survey. Interestingly, only…
DOT Desk: Existing trans- portation methods are inconvenient for the people of the area. The locals of Bagda in the Agailjhara upazila of Barisal are experiencing difficulties with transportation as they have no bridge to cross the Sandha river, reports The Dhaka Tribune. The situation is especially difficult for the elderly, children, and students. Distressed…
DOT Desk: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said it busted an international drug racket by arresting five peddlers, including three women, in Dhaka. RAB legal and media wing director Mufti Mahmud Khan told reporters that the accused were arrested during different raids in the city’s Airport police station area, reports The Independent. The arrestees were…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government is striving to ensure that every one irrespective of their religious and ethnic identity get their equal rights, reports BSS. “When we say about our development, we certainly mean the inclusive development of every people irrespective of their religion, creed and caste,” she…