Sabah Mannan: Just a day after Trump cancelled the 12th June summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un due to Pyongyang’s “open hostility”, he said the US was having “productive talks” about reinstating it. In a Twitter post, Trump wrote that the summit is likely to be held on the same date, June 12th…
BSS: The Department of Agriculture Extension is completing distribution of special agriculture incentives worth Taka 12.15 crore among 90,440 small and marginal farmers of Rangpur agriculture region. Officials of the DAE said the incentives, in terms of seed and fertilisers, are being distributed among the beneficiary farmers to assist them in cultivating eight varieties of…
Sejuti Mourin: The campaigning for the upcoming Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election, scheduled to take place on May 15, has gained momentum. All the contenders, including mayoral aspirants, are conducting campaigns in full swing from early morning to midnight, reports BSS. Many of the candidates have set up election offices at key points as per…
BDnews24 The prime minister and the rest of the delegation returned from the 10-day trip aboard a special Biman Bangladesh flight from London at 9:10am on Monday. She had departed New York aboard a British Airways flight for London on Saturday afternoon. She boarded the special flight there after a two-hour layover. The prime minister…
Eshan Maitra So, the other day I was hearing this while passing by elementary school, “Vabi, my boy only can say Dog and Cat. He doesn’t even understand what Kukur-Biral is. Hihi!” Then with some more of such examples like that. Her Son is so bad in Bangla! And She was telling that with such…
AP news: Michelle Janikian, who writes about marijuana for publications like Herb, Playboy and Rolling Stone, says after she tells someone what she does for a living, she usually spends the rest of the conversation “trying to act so friendly and mainstream” so they don’t think she’s stoned. Adam Salcido relates that after he went…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT British High Commissioner in Dhaka Alison Blake greatly highly lauded Bangladesh’s achievements and “amazing” development stories saying the UK will remain a partner in Bangladesh’s development journey. “I congratulated the Prime Minister (Sheikh Hasina) on Bangladesh’s achievements and the amazing development stories,” she said. Before making the comments, she sat with…
DOT Desk: The irrigation is expected to officially start from January 15 in the command area of the irrigation project, reports Dhaka Tribune.The Teesta barrage irrigation project is set to begin in the current Rabi and Kharif-1 seasons in three districts – Nilphamari, Rangpur and Dinajpurof Bangladesh. Around 29,500 hectares of land has been allotted…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed writes for DOT : BNP Secretary General voiced strong doubt about credible polls scheduled to take place today. He further added that it is not easy to revive the “dead democracy as people have lost their confidence in the country’s election system”. He also said they could not carry out the electioneering…