DOT Desk: Farmers on the border belt of Jhenidah, especially those from Moheshpur upazila, have shown keen interest in peanut farming as the cultivation has paid dividends, reports The Independent. A number of groundnut farmers said they had started cultivating groundnut as a hobby a few years ago, but now a huge number of farmers…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain has urged the elected BNP lawmakers to accept people’s verdict and take oath. He was addressing media at the Secretariat yesterday when he said, “It will not be wise to reject the verdict made by the general people of Bangladesh. Though they [BNP]…
Prof. Dr. Ajoy Roy, Physicist and educationalist: The Prime Minister’s orders to the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) members to not attack on the quota reformists were not very strong. It is unclear that how much in control the BCL is of the PM. We are often witnessing BCL attacks on the quota reformists along with…
DOT Desk Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inspected the second Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka. She inspected and boarded the aircraft named ‘Hangsabalaka’ at the VVIP Tarmac of the HSIA, reports state news agency BSS. After boarding, the premier went round different zones of the…
Desk Report: After months of relative relief, a large part of the capital under the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is at risk of a dengue outbreak, reports Dhaka Tribune. A survey has found that out of the 2,599 buildings and construction sites, aedes larvae had been found in 938 sites which are over one-third…
Shantanu Mukharji/Daily O, India More powerful than ever before, PM Sheikh Hasina is working overtime to achieve her election objectives. But her dalliances with Islamist parties remain a matter of concern. A fortnight after Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina bounced back to victory after achieving an overwhelming margin (December 30), she has fixed her priorities…
Abrar Hussain: Austria will reportedly expel several foreign-funded imams and shut seven mosques in an operation against “political Islam”, announced Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on June 8. Kurz said the initiative was taken after an investigation by the religious affairs authority into images which emerged earlier this year of children in Turkish-backed mos-ques playing dead and…
UNB A student of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at Shaheed Pinku Hostel of the medical college on Saturday noon. The deceased, Hasan Habib Milton, son of Humayun Kabir of Sabuj Noyapara village in Chilmari upazila, was a student of 27th no batch of the RMCH. Hasan hanged himself with…
DOT Desk: The plot of this pala is set against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement of British India during 1942, reports The Dhaka Tribine. Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosthi is set to stage the second installment of their first jatrapala, titled “Biallisher Biplob”, at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. With an aspiration to…
DOT Desk Theatre troupe Prachyanat will stage their much-acclaimed production ‘Circus Circus’, written and directed by Azad Abul Kalam, on December 22 at 7pm at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) in the capital’s Segun Bagicha Area, reports The Independent. This was the first full-length play by the group and was quickly…