DOT Desk The country’s development efforts saw a significant boost in the outgoing year with public spending-led accelerated growth, LDG graduation eligibility and rolling out of the Delta Plan 2100, reports The Daily Sun. Increased public investment and strong consumption led the country to post the highest ever 7.86 per cent growth in FY18 with…
Tarannum Sattar Just few days after their return from California, the duo was spotted in a beach in Malibu again. The picture caught them kissing on the beach. “They looked very loved up and were paying more attention to each other than the view,” an eyewitness tells E! News exclusively. In the recent past they…
Monirul Alam of DOT : Mercury goes up across the country as the clock strikes 8am from when voters in 299 out of 300 constituencies start casting the ballots for the next eight hours, to bring to power a new government. The election, which is of both tension and enthusiasm among the people, is also…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The ruling Awami League will win somewhere between 168 and 220 seats on its own, says Sajeeb Wazed Joy, an adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, reports bdnews24.com. Sajeeb, son of Hasina, has posted the party’s election outlook on his Facebook page citing an opinion poll conducted from August to October…
Straits Times, Singapore: Food chains Fish & Co and Delifrance Singapore have lost their halal certifications after failing to renew them this year. Fish & Co’s certification expired in March and Delifrance’s in June.An Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) spokesman said Fish & Co’s 12 outlets have not been halal certified since April 1.He…
Tafi Mhaka, Johannesburg-based social and political commentator/Aljazeera Foreign governments ignoring rights abuses to secure economic benefit in Zimbabwe will only enable oppression. On August 28, British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, for a one-day working visit. This visit was part of a three-nation tour of South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria…
Desk Report Dhaleshwari river is being seriously polluted due to the discharge of untreated and partially-treated liquid wastes through surface drainage directly to the river from the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) in the relocated tannery industrial estate in Savar, reports UNB. National River Conservation Commission (NRCC) Chairman Dr Muzibur Rahman Howlader stated this in…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The government has vigorously protested Myanmar’s absolute false allegations of Bangladesh’s part in a terrorist attack on a police post in Maungdaw Township near the boundary pillar No 41 in the early hours of January 24. The Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday afternoon summoned Myanmar Ambassador in Dhaka Lwin Oo to hand…
Rokhaya Diallo/Aljazeera The wave of protests sweeping through France is not a rejection of green policies. It’s a revolt against the 1 percent. For the past three weeks, France has been experiencing one of the most significant social mobilisations in its recent history, which laid bare the country’s social ills, anti-elite sentiment, growing inequalities and…
Raj Abrar of DOT Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced yesterday that the final list of the grand alliance candidates for the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad (JS) polls will be declared in a day or two. “We’ll be able to finalize our list for the next polls in a day or two . ….