Sayeed Muhammad: Lower-than-expected sales in an auction of Pakistani government vehicles have caused another early debacle to new Prime Minister Imran Khan’s pledge to raise quick revenues through cost-cutting. The auction yesterday raised about $1.6 million, said government official Mohammad Asif, reports Reuters. The amount is just one-tenth of what he had predicted, and only…
BSS, Dhaka The public hospitals all over the country provided free medical services to patients as part of their initiatives to pay homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman coinciding with his 97th birth anniversary. “The free treatment was provided to the patients from 8am to 5pm today,” a health ministry spokesman…
DOT Desk Duronto Television will telecast three children’s films on Christmas, all of which have been dubbed in Bangla, reports The New Age. The films are namely A Christmas Carol, Look Who’s Talking Now and The Naughty List. A Christmas Carol, based on a novel by Charles Dickens, has been directed by Robert Zemeckis. The…
Champion’s league final will play most favorite two teams, Real Madrid and Juventus. It will be on June 3, Sunday. This great match will be at Millennium Stadium. Fans are waiting eagerly for this mouth watering match. No one can predict anything of this match. So fans of Real Madrid and Juventus are ready…
Professor Md. Ali Ashraf MP Political parties are indispensable for the working of modern democratic governments. The importance of Political parties lies in the fact that democracies con not function without the existence of political parties. In the absence of organized political parties one just can not think of the working of representative government. In…
Rubya Tripty: After attacking a guard with knife outside the Iranian ambassador’s office, a 26-year old Austrian was shot dead immediately, police said. Police spokesman Harald Soeros told AFP, the assailant “died on the spot” after the soldier opened fire just before midnight local time. The motive for the attack is not yet known, he added.The…
Raj Abrar: In yet another incident of a minister’s offspring being sued for murder, Mohitur Rahman Shanto, the son of religious affairs minister, has been named as the prime accused in the case filed over the death of a Mymensingh Jubo League leader. Kotwali Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mahmudul Islam confirmed the development to…
Ashley Rodriguez/QUARTZ Disney dominated the box office in 2018 even before its big holiday blockbuster, Mary Poppins Returns, hit US theaters on Wednesday (Dec. 19). The mammoth movie studio said on Dec. 9 that its movies had grossed more than $7 billion worldwide year-to-date, or roughly 19% of the global box office at that time,…
DOT Desk The world’s second-biggest apparel exporter is now home to fashion labels of its own, reports The Independent. Bangladesh can chalk up this turn of fortunes to stable economic growth. The country’s gross domestic product has been on a years long winning streak. In the 12 months through June,it grew at a 7.86percent clip….