DOT Desk: The South Korean electronics giant LG, Samsung will soon start manufacture of electronic goods in Bangladesh which will reduce trade gap between Dhaka and Seoul, reports The Independent. This was revealed yesterday while South Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Hu Kang-il paying a courtesy call on Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen at…
Jamille Bigio/Reuters As Yemen’s warring parties met in Sweden last week, hopes were high that these peace talks – the first since 2016 – would spark a political process to end the ongoing conflict that has left the country on the brink of famine and created what the UN calls a “living hell for millions…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT : On Apr 25 of 2016, a group of assailants armed with machetes broke into Xulhaz’s apartment in Dhaka’s Kalabagan and hacked him to death along with Tonoy. Their murders took place amid a series of executions carried out by extremists across the country that year. Xulhaz, a 35-year-old programme…
DOT Desk: An international airport, named after Bangladesh’s founding father, will be constructed near the Padma River, reports The Financial Express. State Minister for Civil Aviation Mahbub Ali gave the information at a meeting with Civil Aviation Authority officials in Dhaka’s Kurmitola on Tuesday, reports UNB. “The government is going to construct Bangabandhu Sheikh…
BBC: The first significant steps towards legally protecting the high seas are to take place at the UN in New York. These waters, which cover 46% of the planet’s surface, are under threat from deep-sea mining, over-fishing and the patenting of marine genetic resources.Over the next two years, government representatives aim to hammer out a…
DOT Desk: The textbook festival will be celebrated across the country on Tuesday, marking the distribution of free textbooks among the students of schools and madrasa, reports The Financial Express. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will distribute books from Azimpur Government Girls’ School and College field around 9:30am, said senior information officer Arfazur Rahman of…
DOT Desk The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed petitions to the court seeking orders to confiscate assets of drug dealers under the Money Laundering Prevention Act, sources said, reports The Daily Sun. A senior CID official told the daily sun that they have sufficient evidence to prove that several drug dealers have amassed huge…
Raj Ahmed of DOT The High Court rejected three petitions to restore Khaleda Zia’s nominations for three parliamentary races in the upcoming parliamentary elections, which effectively blocks the opposition chairperson from competing. The bench of Justice JBM Hassan issued the decision yesterday, to the outcome of Khaleda’s team expressing a lack of confidence in the…
AP, Aerzen President Barack Obama and top U.S. allies are gathering in Germany to discuss issues he says are putting European unity “under strain.” Monday’s talks in Hannover come on the final day of Obama’s two-day visit to push for the conclusion of negotiations on a U.S.-Europe trade deal. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime…
UNB: NOVOAIR, leading private airline of the country will increase flights on the domestic routes in response to passengers demand. Daily one more flight will operate to Jashore route one more flight will operate on Rajshahi route on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday every week from September 1. Currently, NOVOAIR was operating daily three flights to…