DOT Desk: The industries ministry has requested National Board of Revenue to formulate an investment-friendly tax policy for the automobile industry having the potential for growth to encourage domestic production and assembling of motor cars in the country, reports The New Age. In a letter to NBR chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, the ministry on…
Myisha Nawar Everyone knows the drill. Get up, get your coffee and you are good to go. The first cup of coffee may get you going. Or you might need a few more cups. And then a caffeine crash pays you a visit and you end up just as tired as you were when you…
Afsan Chowdhury writes for DOT : As a teacher of the history of 1971, I am surprised not by what people forget but what they remember. Much is remembered of the announcements declarations and numbers of dead and raped but little of the process that led to 1971 or what happened in that year. The…
Desk Report: A traditional boat race was held in the Chitra River in Narail district on Saturday to mark the 94th birth anniversary of great artist S M Sultan, reports Daily Observer. State Minister for Sports Biren Shikder inaugurated the boat race under Sheikh Russel Bridge over the river. This year, as many as 21…
Marilyn. T. My worship for one pot pasta dishes burns ever brighter! Today I’m going to share an Asian fusion version: one pot coconut curry pasta. This is one of my favorite things that I’ve cooked in a while! It might not be forgiving to your waistline but it’ll certainly make your day! This one…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: Bangabandhu is the architect of independent Bangladesh. He had the towering courage and personality. Bangabandhu was a real epitome of courage, both in the physical and moral sense. The historic 6-Point Program, an explicit embodiment of Bengali nationalism was unfurled at Lahore, the…
BDNews24: The newly-elected MP for the ‘historic’ Sylhet-1 constituency, AK Abdul Momen, visited the residence of his defeated rival for the seat, BNP candidate Khandaker Abdul Muktadir as a goodwill gesture and has vowed to give due importance to Muktadir’s plans for the constituency. Momen went to Muktadir’s residence in Kazi Bazar on Monday around…
Arab News: The UN envoy to Yemen said he was “alarmed” over the escalation of violence after a rebel drone attack on the country’s largest air base killed six loyalist soldiers. In tweets posted overnight Thursday Martin Griffiths urged all parties to Yemen’s protracted conflict to exercise restraint. The Shiite Houthi rebels said they carried…
By Ashik kabir India and Bangladesh share a close tie historically, geographically and also culturally. There is always a shuffling going on in the policies concerning India from the Bangladeshi side. After the independence of Bangladesh, there was an emergence of two groups in between the political elites of Bangladesh. The first group is the…