Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The World Bank will give $525 million to Bangladesh under two agreements, to be sighed today, to improve the country’s rural road transport system. Out of the total sum, the bank will provide $425 million for “Operation for Supporting Rural Bridges (SupRB)” and the rest for “Second Rural Transport Improvement Project”,…
DOT Desk Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five suspected robbers from Railway Colony besides Tejgaon Station Road in the city on Monday night, reports The Daily Observer. The arrestees were Md Jahangir, 40, Md Rumon, 26, Md Wadud, 30, Md Khorshed and Md Lalchand, 22. Being informed that a gang…
AFP EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini on Wednesday urged Russia and the US to save a Cold War arms control treaty after Washington issued a 60-day ultimatum to Moscow. The United States said it would pull out of the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty unless Moscow withdraws a new cruise missile system that…
DOT Desk The second white tiger cub was born in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur on August 8, reports The Daily Observer. The birth of the first white tiger cub in the Chittagong Zoo on July 19 of this year. The mother tiger gave birth to three cubs on August 8. Among…
DOT Desk Daily Kaler Kantho senior reporter Layekuzzaman and daily Samakal senior reporter Amaresh Roy have been made president and general secretary respectively of Faridpur Journalist Foundation- Dhaka, reports The Daily Sun. An 11-member executive committee was formed for 2019-2020 tenure at an emergency general meeting held at a restaurant in Purana Paltan of the…
BSS The country has witnessed massive socio-economic development over the past 10 years, even the northern region also witnessed significant development, although it was once regarded as the region of ‘hunger and poverty’. Once the state of poverty was very acute in Panchagarh, the northern district of Bangladesh, but that is not seen now as…
NDTV A man in Netherlands is living every bargain hunter’s dream after buying a painting for 75 euros and selling it for over 30,000 euros. RTL News reports that Henk Laarmans bought a painting at a thrift store for 75 euros (approximately Rs. 6,000) and took it to an expert at Tussen Kunst and Kitsch….
Science Alert Freezing temperatures and industrial activity may sound like a recipe for disaster, but sometimes, beautiful things come from strange places. In the frigid cold of winter, two industrial power plants on the outskirts of a small town in Nebraska have caused a rare and unusual weather event. The National Weather Service (NWS) noticed…
Andrés Martinez, Professor of practice at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University/Reuters If you really want to understand contemporary Mexico, skip “Narcos” and watch the series “Un Extraño Enemigo” instead. The drama about the horrifying crackdown on the student movement on the eve of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics…
Reuters U.S. investment bank J.P. Morgan said on Wednesday the chances of Britain calling off its divorce from the European Union had increased after a string of humiliating parliamentary defeats for Prime Minister Theresa May cast new doubt over her plan to quit the bloc and sent sterling higher. Britain’s pro-Brexit trade minister Liam Fox…