DOT Desk Bangladesh will get $525 million loan from World Bank (WB) with a view to improving its connectivity and climate resilience through building, maintaining and improving roads and rural bridges, reports The Financial Express. To this end, Bangladesh government signed agreements with the money lender in the city on Thursday. Mahmuda Begum, Additional Secretary…
Russia Today The US government partially shut down early Saturday after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement over the House-approved funding bill providing $5.7 billion for a US-Mexico border wall. Both the US Senate and the House adjourned for the night without voting on funding for the project. Vice-President Mike Pence earlier broke a tie…
The Guardian: In a major policy development, the Malaysian government has cancelled the Government-to-Government (G2G) Plus recruitment system in a bid to stop the ‘syndicated monopoly business’ in recruiting migrant workers from Bangladesh. Jeremy Corbyn has been made the subject of an official complaint to the Labour party over his suggestion in 2013 that some…
Dr Anupam Sen, Vice-Chancellor, Premier University: We had considered an evil act and force the August 15 incident. A vested quarter carried out the brutal killing mission. But the 2004 murder attempt on Sheikh Hasina implied that the state was behind the August 21 incident. Some people used the state power, to destroy the opposition….
DOT Desk: Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) will formally launch its restaurant gradation programme in the city on January 20 aiming to help customers identify eateries’ hygiene level, a high official said. “We are set to launch the programme through marking 50 restaurants with four different sticker colours based on their hygiene level,” BFSA Chairman…
Desk Report: As a part of the world’s celebration of Teachers’ Day 2018, Google Doodle paid a special tribute to the mentors of our lives, reports Daily Star. A spinning globe with spectacles accompanied by all the major topics of knowledge like astronomy and biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, music and sports. This year, World Teachers’…
Russia Today: Swiss police have defended their decision to fine a man who shouted “Allahu Akbar” in public, arguing that they would have reacted the same way if someone had been shouting obscenities in public, local media reported. The 22-year-old man, named as Orhan E., claims that he used the Islamic phrase, meaning “God is…
Desk Report: Mindless of the risk of fatal accidents, pedestrians often cross busy roads in the capital without using footbridges and zebra crossings, not giving a damn about traffic rules, reports Daily Sun. Though jaywalking is one of the main reasons for road fatalities in the city, pedestrians are reluctant to use footbridges and zebra…