DOT Desk The prices of most of the shares on bourses witnessed positive trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday as some investors are active on sector-wise issues amid cautious trading ahead of national elections, reports The financial Express. Following the previous five days’ marginal gain, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong…
DOT Desk At least five people were killed in separate road accidents in three districts including the capital, reports The New Age. In the capital, two people were killed after being hit by a truck in the city’s Shanir Akhra area on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Bashar, 31, a helper of the truck…
DOT Desk In spite of the animated ambience prevailing among both the country’s winter vegetable farmers and consumers, a grey zone peeps through the scene, reports The Financial Express. It comes in the form of negligible profit, in worse cases losses, afflicting a large section of growers due to low price offered by the market…
DOT Desk The new powerhouse in domestic football Bashundhara Kings will be looking for their first silverware in top-flight football when they take on Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra in the Independence Cup final at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday, reports The New Age. Kings came close to winning a title in their debut season at…
UNB Police recovered the body of a schoolboy from a paddy filed in Kadirpur village of Khaliajuri upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Gobinda Sarkar, 15, a ninth grader of Khaliajuri Pilot High School and son of Mantu Sarkar of the village. Deceased’s father Mantu Sarkar said they spotted the body in…
DOT Desk Vegetable growers in the vast Barind tract are delighted as they have been getting repeated bumper yield over the last few years, reports The Financial Express. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), the Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) have jointly supplied quality seeds, incentives and other…
BSS Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor Dr. Akhtaruzzaman today said that there will be no compromise on the question of Bangladesh, Father of the Nation and the great Liberation War. “The great achievement of Bangalee nation was the independence of the country which we got through the great Liberation War”, he said while addressing…
Dot Desk Stretching as far as the eye can see, groves of gnarled olive trees in northwest Libya have proudly withstood the country’s devastating conflicts, reports The Daily Sun. But the industry of extracting olive oil, often dubbed “green gold”, is now under threat after Libyan authorities halted exports in a bid to “protect” local…
UNB Two people were killed after being hit by a truck in the city’s Shanir Akhra area. The deceased were identified as Bashar, 31, a helper of the truck driver and son of Rafez Hawladar and Harunur Rashid, 40. The accident took place around 5:15 am when a truck hit a brick-laden truck. from behind…
BSS The Rural Electrification Board (REB) has brought 8,539 villages of Rangpur division under electricity coverage in last ten years improving human resources, rural economy and life-style of the rural people. After the rural electrification, entrepreneurs are establishing power- run cottage, (small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and agro-based industries creating jobs while farmers operating irrigation…