DOT Desk: Illegally parking cars continues to choke the capital’s streets causing unending traffic congestions. But the authorities take no interest to free the busy streets, reports The New Age BD. Roads under newly constructed flyovers at busy intersections including Mouchak, Malibagh, Moghbazar is permanently used to park cars obstructing traffic movement. The same intersections…
Prof. Syed Anwar Husain speaks to DOT : Dhaka University authorities must be more vigilant to ensure a fair and transparent DUCSU election. Even a minor discrepancy could spell disaster. Therefore, the authorities must ensure a transparent electoral atmosphere through caution and diligence in order to prevent any disruption. Otherwise, the election would be in…
DOT Desk: The capital’s air quality deteriorated after implementing a Tk 802.25 crore air quality improvement project in nine years since 2009. The project cost included Tk 769.74 crore provided by the World Bank as credit carrying 0.75 per cent service but no interest, reports The New Age BD. The Tk 802.25 crore clean air…
Science Alert: We can probably all agree that charging cables are just the worst, and that we’d love to have fewer of them in our lives. Now, a new invention might give us just that: engineers have developed a flexible device that harvests energy from Wi-Fi signals. And not just harvest. It can then convert…
Feminism Pakistan (Facebook Page) We treat them by staring at them without even blinking at them and when we see that they feel uncomfortable we laugh at them. We treat them by teaching them that they are/cause sins and that’s why they shouldn’t go infront of them as men find it hard to control themselves…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Rapid Action Battalion-1 yesterday claimed to have detained five Bangladeshi nationals for their involvement with an international drug trafficking ring in Sri Lanka, reports The Daily Star. Fatema Imam Tania, 26, and Afsana Mimi, 23, Salma Sultana, 26, Sheikh Mohammad Badhon alias Parvez, 28, and Ruhul Amin alias Saymon 29, were…
UNB: Police recovered three bodies including a minor from different areas of the industrial zone on Tuesday morning. Shawgatul Islam, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Savar Police Station, said that police recovered the body of five-year minor boy Monir Hossain from beneath a bridge on Bongshi river in Islampur area in the morning. The boy went gone…
DOT Desk: Digital travel solution, ghurbo.com has been launched with a view to boost tourism by assisting the budding travellers in the country, reports Dhaka Trubune. The digitized platform would offer a fast, convenient, secure and smart way to purchase tickets for domestic and international flights, tour packages and hotel reservation, said a press release…
Anadolu Agency: Around 56 million people are in need of urgent food and livelihood assistance in eight conflict zones around the world, a report said Monday. Yemen, South Sudan, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic are the five zones that experienced conflict-driven food insecurity the most in the latter…
DOT Desk: Leftist students demand polling stations outside dorms Left student organizations Bangladesh Chhatra Union and Bangladesh Chhatra Federation in separate programmes on Monday demanded setting up of polling booths outside the dormitories during Dhaka University Central Students Union elections, reports The Daily Observer BD. In a press conference, held at Modhu’s canteen of Dhaka…