Sayeed Muhammad: In yet another massive step in the power sector, the government has signed an agreement with German-based tech giant Siemens AG for constructing a 3,600 MW LNG-fired power plant. The agreement signing ceremony was held at a hotel in Dhaka on Friday night, making it a joint-highest capacity in the country. Mentionable, the…
Desk Report: Now 98 per cent bikers use crash helmets while double riding in the city as the strict monitoring by law enforcers pays off, reports The Financial Express. The riders are abiding by the traffic rules following a recent student movement and the ongoing month-long police campaign for road safety. Police, traders and commuters…
Reported by: Humayun Kabir Khokan Written by: Eshan Maitra The cabinet finalized the approval of Seed Law 2017, at the parliament meeting yesterday. That will result in jail & fine for the violators of this law, who would supply lesser quality seeds to the farmers. The meeting was hosted by the Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh…
Abrar Hussain: Nurul Huda Shipon, a youth from South Sangor village of Baniachang upazila in Habiganj district, has become a member of the National Cricket Team of Finland, according to a report by the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. Shipon is the son of a retired government official, and has five other siblings — two brothers and…
James Brownsell/Aljazeera As the Conservative Party is spectacularly failing in Brexit, Labour has no clear alternative plan to offer. Britain, it would appear, is falling apart at the seams. The Conservative government teeters on the brink of collapse, riven with divisions, rife with Islamophobia, propped up by an abjectly illiberal formerly paramilitary-supporting party from Northern…
Raj Abrar: The United States yesterday emphasized the importance of holding “free, fair and participatory election” in Bangladesh that “truly reflects the will of Bangladeshi people”. “Bangladesh and the US are indeed friends. This friendship is based on shared values and willing to talk to each other openly and honestly,” USAID Administrator Mark Green told a…
DOT Desk: Country’s first omnibus project “Iti, Tomari Dhaka” has been awarded at Jaipur International Film Festival in India, reports The Daily Observer. It has won the Best Original Screenplay award at the eleventh edition of the festival. Abu Shahed Emon, creative producer of the film has confirmed the news. It might be added that…
BSS March, the month of English calendar year, has much significance to the ‘Bangalee’ nation, as the formal struggle for independence began this month after Bangabandhu’s 7th-March historic speech and the massacre of Bangalees by Pakistani forces at the dark night of 25 March 1971. In this month, the Banglalee nation received a clear guideline…
Arab News: A US corporate security executive and former Marine who has been jailed in Moscow on spying charges has spent more than a decade cultivating friends and contacts in Russia, both virtual and real. Paul Whelan sought out friends throughout the country, most often through a social networking site that is similar to Facebook…
Al Jazeera: Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have marched for an annual rally in Hong Kong with activists decrying the government’s “unprecedented” ban on pro-independence symbols. The Civil Human Rights Front, an umbrella group of pro-democracy parties and groups, said on Tuesday that it would comply with the restriction on displaying the symbols outside the government…