Desk Report: A 2094-kg (52 maunds) bull named ‘Raja Babu’ is drawing visitors from far and near to Baraid village in Saturia upazila under the district, reports Daily Star. “The three-year-and-10-month-old bull weighs 2094 kg. It is six feet and six inches high, eight feet long, its chest fence is ten feet, neck fence five…
DOT Desk Traffic department of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) launched a bicycle patrol team, consisting 10 traffic police with an aim to ease traffic congestion in the city, reports Daily Sun. Harunur Rashid Hazaree, deputy commissioner of CMP traffic (North), inaugurated launching of the team in the morning at Tigerpass intersection. “The number of traffic…
Tara Sattar Grameenphone, the biggest mobile network in Bangladesh has signed up singer and actor Tahsan as their model. Bidya Sinha Mim, actress and model acted alongside of him in the role of his wife, reports clickittefaq. Mim is also the brand ambassador of Grameenphone. The roles that they play portray Tahsan as a musician…
UNB, Dhaka The Election Commission on Sunday announced the 4th phase of elections to 743 Union Parishads, fixing May 7 for balloting. According to the schedule, the deadline for the submission of nomination paper is May 7 while the nomination papers will be scrutinised on April 10 and 11, and the last date for…
Sky News: A rare type of durian fruit, known for its pungent aroma, has gone on sale in Indonesia for three times the average monthly salary. The J-Queen variety of the smelly fruit is on sale in West Java, and costs 14m rupiah each – about £750. According to the manpower ministry, the average monthly…
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…
Maj Gen (retd) Abdur Rashid speaks to DOT There is no international pressure behind the influx of Rohingyas from India. Pressure is on to take back the Rohingyas from Bangladesh. The international pressure has grown even more. In recent times, some Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from India. There are some 40,000 Rohingyas in…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque thanked House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Congressman Eliot Engel for his initiatives to adopt resolutions condemning the atrocities on the Rohingyas, reports UNB. When they met at the Hill on Thursday, Shahidul also thanked Engel for putting greater pressure on Myanmar so that the latter…
Straits Times, Singapore: The Great Eastern Women’s Run (GEWR) on Oct 14 may be her first running event of any kind, but Irene Lee already knows what it takes to complete a marathon. The 48-year-old has endured a 2½-year ongoing battle with Stage 3 ovarian cancer, seemingly beating the disease twice only for it to…
Shreya Dasgupta/MONGABAY * A team of indigenous parabiologists in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts, documenting their forest’s wildlife, have uncovered a surprisingly wide range of species. * The parabiologists belong to the Mro ethnic group and work with the Creative Conservation Alliance co-founded by Shahriar Caesar Rahman and colleagues. They set up camera traps, monitor hunting…