Desk Report Small scale tea plantations can help eradicate poverty in northern Bangladesh and create a sustainable avenue for income generation for the poor, said speakers at a workshop yesterday. More than 1,000 households set an example in poverty eradication by way of finding sustainable means of income generation through small scale tea plantations in…
Reuters: Indian police on Friday said they are investigating an academic, a journalist and a peasant leader for possible sedition for publicly opposing a proposal to grant citizenship to non-Muslims from neighboring Muslim-majority countries. Critics have called the proposal blatantly anti-Muslim and an attempt by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
Tech Explorist Today, the comet named 46P/Wirtanen will make its 10 closest comet flybys of Earth in 70 years. And as scientists reported, you will able to see the comet without a telescope. 46P/Wirtanen is a small short-period comet with a current orbital period of 5.4 years. It was discovered photographically on January 17, 1948,…
Arafat Hasan of DOT At least 21 people have been killed and 71 more injured in twin bombings that occurred during a church service in the southern Philippines yesterday, security officials said, merely days after a referendum on autonomy for the mainly Muslim region returned an overwhelming “yes” vote. The first explosion went off inside…
The Straits Times A week after his girlfriend said he had physically assaulted her, Chinese actor Jiang Jinfu turned himself in to the authorities. The 27-year-old, who was wearing a face mask and hat, was filmed entering a police station in Tokyo on Wednesday by TBS News. Japanese media reported that he had admitted to…
DOT Desk: An alleged drug dealer was killed in a gunfight with the members of police in Monagram village in Cumilla Sadar upazila, reports The Daily Observer. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 25, son of Jahangir Alam, a resident of Jormeher village of the upazila. Saiful was accused in five smuggling cases, said…
Mohammad Abu Bakar Siddique The government is going to take some positive steps next week towards implementing the Ninth Wage Board, Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Bangladesh Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader MP said yesterday. He said the step would taken as per the directives of prime minister. Obaidul Quader was addressing as…
Abrar Hussain: The Parliament yesterday gave the green light to the Tk 4,64,573 crore national budget for FY 2018-19. UNB reported that Finance Minister AMA Muhith moved the Appropriations Bill, 2018 seeking a budgetary allocation of Tk 571833, 82, 92, 000 which was passed by voice vote. Following the proposal, the ministers concerned placed justifications…
UNB: Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Ministry Dr Dipu Moni yesterday urged the young generation to come forward to make Bangladesh a modern and technologically developed country. She made the call while addressing the installation ceremony of voluntary organisation ‘Chandmukh’ and ICT Olypiad-2018′ at the Chandpur Govt College auditorium. Dr Dipu Moni,…
BBC: Cholera cases in Yemen have been slashed by a new system that predicts where outbreaks will occur. Last year, there were more than 50,000 new cases in just one week – this year, the numbers plummeted to about 2,500. The system has enabled aid workers to focus efforts on prevention several weeks in advance…