Desk Report: In wetland areas of Pirojpur, farming on floating seedbeds called “dhap” is a tradition that spans centuries, reports The Daily Star. Primarily constructed from water hyacinth, the seedbeds that are up to 180 feet long, four feet wide and two feet thick, allow farming in areas otherwise unavailable for regular crops. But this…
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…
Nusrat Jahan Progga First the rise of Potterheads due to Harry Potter, and then people getting “Sherlocked” due to the successful TV series Sherlock Holmes- the desire to fake or to develop a British accent just doesn’t stop boiling. Although we all love and adore a sexy British accent but when it’s fake and overused,…
NBC On Sunday, the Secret Service flew into New York with the newest in a long series of specially designed presidential limousines. Like its predecessor, which came into service during Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the new limo goes by the nickname The Beast. And considering it weighs in at somewhere near 20,000 pounds, that’s clearly…
Tara Sattar The photo was taken by a photojournalist back in the time when the school kids came down to the streets to protest “Apartheid”. The story that comes with it is horrifying and changed the view of the world. Antoinette Sithole, now 65, tells the story of that frightful day to TIME. In Soweto,…
Muhammad Ali Bukhari Let’s start with most recent, shocking and surprising election outcome of the world in the United States! “I want them to talk about racism every day,” Steve Bannon, the chief election strategist of Donald Trump said in the summer of 2016. “If the left is focused on race and identity, and we…
Eshan Maitra Virtual Reality gadgets are the latest tech craze of our time. Though companies like Microsoft and Google pushing it for entertainment purposes, some scientists found even greater use for this amazing technology. If you have watched the Ridley Scott’s movie ‘Prometheus’ (2012), you already have guessed about the process. Firstly, the researching teams…
Hossen Sohel of DOT At least five men were killed and eight other people injured after a head-on collision between a bus and a Laguna in Gazipur, reports bdnews24.com. The accident occurred around 8am in the Haldoba area, said Gazipur Sadar Police Station SI Md Shaheedul Islam. All of the victims were Laguna passengers, he…
Abrar Hussain of DOT BNP in its election manifesto has promised to scrap all ‘black’ laws including the Digital Security Act, Official Secrets Act and Special Power Acts in order to facilitate freedom of speech and expression. The party also pledged it will not silence dissenting opinions and to lift restrictions on social media to…
DOT Desk: After a brief lull in anti-drug crackdown, members of law enforcement agencies including RAB have further intensified its drive against drug across the county, reports The Daily Sun. Many listed drug dealers who came out of their hideouts taking the advantage of recently held 11th parliamentary polls have reportedly gone into hiding again…