UNB, Gazipur Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq on Saturday said the property of war criminals will be confiscated and their family members will lose their voting rights. Family members of the war criminals will be made the second class citizens of the country, he said. The minister came up with the remarks while…
DOT Desk: Flower farmers of Bogura district are passing busy time to supply large quantities of flowers for celebrating February 21 with much fervour, reports The Financial Express. They are expecting to grow flowers worth Tk 20 million for this peak period. A good number of extreme poor farmers of the region mostly depend on…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a latest claim over the Digital Security Act, Mustafa Jabbar, the minister for Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology, said the term ‘spying’ is not included in Section 32 of the law. He was addressing as chief guest at a debate program organized by Debate for Democracy (DFD) in FDC of Dhaka yesterday,…
DOT Desk: The prices of ginger, one of the main cooking ingredients, witnessed a big rise at city markets last week, augmenting woes of the consumers further, reports The Financial Express. The prices of onion also considerably increased last week. Local ginger was sold at Tk 110-120 per kilogramme (kg) while imported Chinese ginger at…
Eshan Maitra What is first thing that we look for when we return home from work, sport or school? Water! It is a name of comfort and satisfaction. Especially in such hot weather! We all wrote an essay on Water once in our life in school; with the headline saying ‘Water is Life’. Basically it…
Sheersho Zaman Music is a sort of universal language. However, the liking of any piece of music is purely subjective. A casual listener can prefer a certain genre of music or various genres of music at the same time, but over the years, certain people have come up and become like banner-men for their preferred…
DOT Desk Bangladesh will take steps to seal loopholes in the tax system within the next year to boost revenue collection, National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said on Saturday, reports The Financial Express. “The automation process will be completed within 2019. It will give us accurate information on VAT and tax,…
The Guardian, UK : This year has been by far the worst on record for gun violence in schools, the advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise said, citing research by the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security counted 94 school shooting incidents in 2018, a near 60% increase on…
Motherboard Computer graphics in video games and movies have gotten terrifyingly realistic and the methods of rendering them have become increasingly complex and labor intensive. Take it from the researchers at Disney, who in an effort to create the perfect digital teeth strapped some poor man to an upright gurney and outfitted him with some…
Brigadier General Sakhawat Hossain speaks to DOT If BNP agents do not come to the centres, then how can they be seen, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda questioned today following the allegation that opposition’s polling agents were not allowed to enter the centres. “It is their choice. If they do not come, how will…