Hossen Sohel of DOT President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have paid tribute to the martyred intellectuals by visiting the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Mirpur yesterday, reports bdnews24.com. Both the president and the prime minister have placed wreaths at the altar of the memorial and stood there in silence for a while….
NDTV: A lookalike of Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was spotted in Pakistan, and his video has created quite a buzz on social media. According to Gulf News, the video of the doppelganger was recorded in a market in the port city of Karachi. The short clip was initially posted on video sharing app Tik Tok,…
UNB: An elderly woman was burned to death when a fire broke out at her house in Bhoshbagh area of Kabirhat upazila. The deceased was identified as Nasima Khatun, 60, wife of Abu Bakar Siddique of the village. The fire broke out at the house when a gas cylinder exploded around 10 pm and spread…
BSS Genia Sarkar, a 40-year-old, runs her family with her husband and two daughters. But her mood remains always pettish. Her elder daughter was born blind and she spends almost of the day with this daughter. At the beginning, Genia’s husband thought that her wife’s mood always remains snappish as she has to spend her…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Law Research Officer, BILIA. Advocate, Supreme Court : Statistics show that Bangladesh will need to construct approximately 4 million new houses annually to meet the future demand of housing in the next fourteen to fifteen years. Estimates for annual requirements for housing in urban areas vary from 0.3 to 0.55 million units….
The Guardian, UK: The number of children put on to local authority care plans because their parents have been accused of emotional abuse has soared over the past decade, research has found, amid warnings that some families are being broken up without justification. Analysis of national care statistics shows that the use of “emotional abuse”…
AFP Authorities have hiked fivefold ticket prices for Indian visitors to the Taj Mahal, in the latest attempt to lower tourist numbers and reduce damage at the country’s top tourist site. Indians make up the majority of the Taj Mahal’s 10,000-15,000 average daily visitors. Nearly 6.5 million people marvelled at the white marble 17th-century masterpiece…
Desk Report: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and United Hospital Limited signed an agreement recently. Under the pact, employees and their dependents of ICAB may avail special healthcare facilities at United Hospital Limited. ICAB head of HR AKM Ziaul Amin and the hospital’s chief of Communication & Business Development Dr Shagufa Anwar…
DOT Desk The film ‘Debi’, based on the first installation of Humayun Ahmed’s Misir Ali series, has violated the law by showing off smoking habit of the protagonist, an anti-tobacco group alleges. Sushasoner Jonyo Procharabhijan or SUPRO (Campaign for Good Governance) in a statement condemned the release of the film in Bangladesh on Oct 19…
Abrar Hussain: Facebook authorities have selected Bangladeshi entrepreneur Razib Ahmed as fellow of its ‘Community Leadership Program’ for his group ‘Search English’ in which members help each other to become more fluent in English. Razib Ahmed, former president of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB), will receive a grant of US$ 50,000 for the project….