DOT Desk Significant changes to the Brick Production and Brick Kiln Building (Control) Act of 2013 will pave the way to more pollution from mushrooming brick kilns, experts and environmentalists said. Under Bangladesh’s current five-year plan, when the government is committed to reducing air pollution to zero by 2020, the presidential ordinance published on November…
DOT Desk To celebrate the 47th Victory Day of our nation, recently, the students of the Theatre and Performance Studies Department of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University (JKKNIU) staged the play, Court Marshal, which revolves around the Liberation War of Bangladesh, reports the Daily Star.
DOT Desk Jamaat-e-Islami’s district unit chief was reportedly abducted from his residence and severely beaten up on Thursday by a group of unidentified men, reports UNB. Belaluzzaman was hospitalised with injuries in his legs. His brother Shamsul Islam said a group of men picked up the Jamaat leader from his home in Singra Upazila’s Raninagar…
Shaikh Nahayan Bin Mabarak Al Nahayan, UAE Minister of Tolerance/ Gulf News Pope Francis will find ‘a nation that has learned the instrumental value of tolerance’ A Roman Catholic Bishop has been seated in the United Arab Emirates since 1974. St. Joseph’s Cathedral is the seat of the Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, Bishop Paul…
BSS The Election Commission (EC) is working with utmost sincerity to create a free and congenial environment for all voters including females for casting votes across the country. “We have completed almost everything and instructed members of the law enforcement agencies to create an undisturbed environment for all voters, including female voters,” Election Commissioner Rafiqul…
DOT Desk Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad, who is in Singapore for treatment, is expected to return to Dhaka December 22. Ershad told his special assistant ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader on phone Wednesday morning that he was in good health and eager to return to Dhaka to take part in election campaigns, reports the New…
Desk Report A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against BNP’s Dhaka-12 candidate Saiful Alam Nirob and 37 others in a case filed for assaulting police and preventing them from discharging their duties in December last year, reports The Daily Star. After accepting the charge sheet against 71 including 38, Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sarafuzzaman Ansari…
AFP Former US president Barack Obama took on a new high-profile role as Father Christmas on Wednesday for a surprise visit to sick children in Washington. Sporting a festive Santa hat and armed with a sack of gifts, he delighted young patients at Children’s National hospital with gifts and hugs. “I just want to say…
DOT Desk The 12th annual general meeting (AGM) of GPH Ispat Ltd has approved 10 per cent stock dividend for the shareholders for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. The approval of dividend came in the AGM held at Chittagong Club Ltd today with GPH Ispat Ltd’s Chairman Md Alamgir Kabir in the chair, reports the Daily…
DOT Desk Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said a positive and congenial atmosphere for election is prevailing all over the country, reports The Daily Star.People are very enthusiastic over the upcoming elections, CEC Nurul Huda told reporters following a training session for those who are designated to prepare the election results. The CEC…