DOT Desk: The prices of ginger, one of the main cooking ingredients, witnessed a big rise at city markets last week, augmenting woes of the consumers further, reports The Financial Express. The prices of onion also considerably increased last week. Local ginger was sold at Tk 110-120 per kilogramme (kg) while imported Chinese ginger at…
John Lloyd, Co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford/Reuters The various movements gathered under the name of Europe’s “far right” have not risen like a straight line on a graph. There have been – still are – lows as well as highs. Yet there is a new sense…
Sayeed Muhammad: The national budget for fiscal year 2018-19 has set a growth target of 7.8% as Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith rolled out a Tk 4,64,573 crore national budget yesterday. Muhith presented the budget, his 12th and largest ever, to parliament. In FY2016-17, the government’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth target was 7.4%,…
Arab News: A joint military drill between Saudi Arabia and the US army, Shield of Prevention-2 has kicked off on Sunday to support security, stability and cooperation in the region. A statement on the Saudi Press Agency announced that branches of the Saudi Royal Land Forces have joined the military exercise with the friendly US…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The European Union has contributed over US$ 690,000 to support UNICEF’s work to protect the rights of children affected by migration in Bangladesh, reports UNB. The contribution will directly reach an estimated 12,000 children over the next three years who are migrating or have been forcibly displaced within their own countries…
Desk report: The throat-slit bodies of a woman and her minor granddaughter were recovered from their house at Paschim Mulghar village in Sadar upazila on Friday,reports the daily Asian Age. The deceased were identified as Shahida Begum, 50, wife of Shahjahan Mia of the village and her granddaughter Lamia, 5. Quoting family sources, Police Superintendent…
Sky News: The collapsed Genoa bridge that left 43 people dead will take just eight months to rebuild, its operator has said. Giovanni Castellucci, the chief executive of Autostrade per L’Italia, also said the new bridge would be made of steel. The firm is responsible for the collapsed Morandi Bridge and has come under heavy…
Tarannum Sattar Akshay Kumar in his new film has played the character of Dr. Richard. The movie, Enthiran 2, is the sequel of Rajnikanth’s movie “Robot”. The Bollywood star Akshay Kumar plays the role of scientist who turn into a crow. The original film where Rajnikanth was cheated by a robot he made named “Chitti”,…
Redwan Ahmed Speakers at a discussion yesterday pointed out lack of partnership between Myanmar and Bangladesh hampering the solution of the Rohingya crisis. Some of them suggested relocations of the massive plight of Rohingyas that entered Bangladesh in other Muslim nations and liberal countries. They also called for deploying diplomacy, focusing on China and Russia, in…
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Samad, Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Dhaka : Although the education sector allocation in the proposed budget for this fiscal year is Tk 2,500 crore more than that in the previous year, more would have been better. The allocation has increased, which is good news, but not enough. More investment is needed…