Desk Report: Farmers in three upazilas are uncertain about cultivation of Aman paddy as three embankments in those upazilas have collapsed due to tidal surge and erosion, allowing the water to submerge the fields, reports Daily Star. The areas are Bashbaria village under Dashmina upazila, Dhulia under Baufal upazila and Piprakhali under Mirzaganj upazila. In…
Dr. Md. Abdul Majid, Former Chairman, NBR : The government maintains very strict position to collect loans from the public. But that is seen absent when it comes to the government organizations. These organizations are not repaying the loans, neither paying taxes. The government has repeatedly decided to bring the government institutions to the stock market,…
UNB: A 19-member delegation of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) on Wednesday called for the sustainable return of Rohingyas as the delegation completed a three-day visit to Bangladesh. The delegation member visited Rohingya camps on Wednesday to observe firsthand the situation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar sheltered in Cox’s…
Desk Report: Around 1537.01 lakh tonnes of granular and fibre-type animal feeds are required in the country, but only 783.32 lakh tonnes of animal feeds are currently being produced locally in the country, sources said. As a result, the nation suffers from a shortage of about 54.86 lakh tonnes of granular food for animal feed….
UNB: A teenager girl reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Abad Kochua village in Jashore sadar upazila as she could not tolerate an assault of her mother and brother following their protest against harassment by some eve teasers. The deceased was identified as Halima Khatun, 13, a class VIII student of Darus Sunnat Mojaddedia…
DOT Desk Nrityajog –a Bangladesh chapter of World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific, will be organising Ocean Dance Festival of Bangladesh on November 22-26, 2019 in Cox’s Bazar. Dancers from all over the world are going to participate in the festival. A prodigious festival such as this requires a lot of preparations, which have already…
UNB, Beanibazar Two siblings, Samia, 5, and Hanif, 4, have been forced to go begging at Arizkha village in Beanibazar upazila as their parents have left them over family feud. Nearly a month back, the father, Oliur Rahman, 35, disappeared leaving the family in the lurch and later the mother, Rina Begum, 27, went away…