DOT Desk Two international flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines have failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday, reports The Financial Express. Flight BG 148 from Dubai was scheduled to arrive at 8:30 am, but it landed at 10:29 am, according to sources at Civil Aviation Authority of…
DOT Desk Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) sixth edition is drawing nearer as only 15 days remained for the cash-rich Twenty20 domestic tournament of Bangladesh, reports The Independent. But BPL governing council is yet to sit for talking or even holding any discussion to decide whether they will arrange any concert on opening ceremony to mark…
Ruhin Hossain Prince, Central Committee Member, CPB Is our budget for the fiscal year people friendly? Is our finance minister’s statement about equality just a public relation strategy? Implementation of his policies to bring about a change is yet to be seen. How will the government fund the deficit? Will our working population be held…
BSS: Officials and experts of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) are expecting a better wheat production despite a shortfall in the fixed farming target this season in Rangpur agriculture region. “Despite shortfall in the farming target, the tender wheat plants are growing excellent amid favourable climatic condition predicting better production this season,” Horticulture Specialist…
Arafat Hasan of DOT : Pope Francis assailed the “insatiable greed” of modern consumerism at the Vatican as pilgrims crowded into the church at the traditional site of Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem on Tuesday while Christmas celebrations began worldwide. Thousands attended mass on Monday night at the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Basilica, where Pope Francis, head…
Anindya Nahar Habib If you are every now and then tapping your hand on your desk or on your way home in the bus then a high-tech glove could be the gadget to help you turn the tunes inside you into music. Which you can record by the way! Remidi T8 wearable instrument. This is…
The Guardian, UK: Nepal has ordered a review of the way summit helicopter rescues are conducted after uncovering a multimillion-dollar scam in which climbers were pressured, sometimes by having their food spiked, to take costly flights down mountains. Insurance industry figures said the scam, which had been operating for more than five years, had caused…
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…
AP, Sao Paulo Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that he believes his embattled successor and protege can survive mounting pressure in Congress for her impeachment. Silva told international journalists that President Dilma Rousseff will be able to resist even if leaders of a major ally, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party,…
Reuters: A Singapore court ordered the return to Malaysia of about S$15.3 million ($11.1 million), just a small portion of total seized in the city state as part of a probe into transactions linked to scandal-hit state fund 1MDB, lawyers for the fund and the Malaysian government said on Monday. Singapore is among at least…