DOT Desk: Barisal city and Jhenaidah town have welcomed the winter season with much festivity at the end of Bangla month Poush amid cold waves, reports The Dhaka Tribune. A three-day-long Poush Mela, a fair welcoming the winter, was held at the Jagadish Saraswat Girls’ High School playground in Barisal city between Friday and Sunday….
UNB: Bangladesh U-15 Women’s Football Team is the first team to reach Bhutan on Monday to Participate in the six-nation SAFF U-15 Women’s Championship 2018 beginning on Thursday (Aug 9) at Changlingmithang Football Stadium in Thimphu in a hope to retain the title. Officials of Bangladesh Embassy to Bhutan and Bhutan Football Federation received the…
Motasem A Dalloul/Middle East Monitor On Sunday 29 July, Israeli commandos boarded a boat taking part in a Freedom Flotilla which was taking humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip. The boat — Al-Awda (The Return) — was captured by Israel while sailing in international waters. If anyone else had conducted the raid, it would…
Jafar Ahmad Senior System Analyst of Bangladesh Central Bank, Md. Rahat Uddin is one of the top suspect of CID for the Bangladesh Reserve Heist of 2016. He has been transferred to the Motijheel office & replaced by Nasrin Sultan at his post. Though, Rahat Uddin will continue cooperating the CID, as per orders in…
UNB, Dhaka Bangladesh-India Cotton Festival 2016, jointly arranged by Bangladesh Cotton Association (BCA) and Indian Cotton Association Limited (ICAL) was held in the city on Saturday. The event was held in cooperation with the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and the India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI). Commerce Minister Tofail…
Hossen Sohel: Florence plowed into the Carolinas and lumbered slowly inland on Friday, knocking down trees, gorging rivers, dumping sheets of rain and leaving five people dead before it was downgraded to a tropical storm still capable of wreaking havoc, reports Reuters. Though Florence’s shrieking winds diminished from hurricane force as it came ashore, forecasters…
Rahat Islam of DOT : Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged everyone to refrain from saying anything that would make the army questionable or controversial. “They are now on field to maintain law and order ahead of the upcoming national election,” Quader said while addressing an electioneering rally at Ataturka High School ground…
Suzana Rahman President Vladimir Putin and eight individuals have been officially confirmed to run for Russia’s March 18 presidential elections, the Central Election Commission said Thursday. The names of the eight candidates will be arranged in alphabetical order on the ballots, it said. For registering as an independent presidential candidate, an aspiring contestant had to collect…
Amanullah Kabir speaks to DOT : The ruling Awami League does not want that BNP participates in the general election. Awami League wants to re-enjoy the fun that it had in 2004. Random cases against BNP leaders and activists, and their arrests depicts that Awami League wants BNP not to contest in the election. In…