Prof Dr Mahbub Ullah, Economist : The defaulters should not be given loans anew. The banks are compelled to hike the interest rates for non-performing loans. Therefore, it becomes quite difficult to lower interest rates. The borrowers have to take loans at high interest rates if they go up. It becomes quite difficult to turn a…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has requested her party men who became contested as ‘independent candidates’ in different constituencies to withdraw their candidacies for the upcoming general election. In a letter, Sheikh Hasina made the special request to the ‘rebel candidates’ to withdraw their candidatures in favor of the candidates of…
Russia Today: A number of Syrian state and media-linked YouTube accounts have gone dark, as the battle for Idlib looms amid Russia’s warnings of an imminent false-flag chemical attack and Western preparations for retaliatory strikes. On Saturday afternoon, the channels belonging to the Syrian presidency, the country’s Ministry of Defense, and SANA news all showed…
Myisha Nawar & Nusrat Progga After a marvelous shopping spree at Paris (we wear Prada or nada) and a weekend of partying in the Bahamas, The Daily Our Time’s most fabulous reporters- Myishakalakaboomboom and Proggastination, came back to their homeland in search of some fine coffee. After some terrible experiences at over-hyped coffee-shops like Gloria…
Nusrat Jahan Progga If you are an anime or manga lover then you probably know how cool the quotes are sometimes. The quotes go from witty, and inspirational to absolutely heartbreaking. No wonder that we use some of these legendary quotes in our social media bios! • “A man proposes; God disposes” -Shintaro Midorima, Kuroko…
BSS Syria’s fragile ceasefire entered its second day on Sunday, with battlezones across the war-scarred country largely quiet for the first time in five years despite some sporadic breaches. The temporary truce, brokered by Washington and Moscow, is seen as a crucial step towards ending a conflict that has claimed 270,000 lives and displaced more…
Marilyn Thipthorpe More or less, everyone at some point in their life tries a sip from the darker side. By that I mean a sip of alcohol. Weather you stick to it, take it to another level or just plain avoid it-there are a few rumors out there that need to be sorted out. The…
DOT Desk A total of 7,706 tonnes of high-yielding Boro seeds have so far been supplied to the farmers in Sylhet division this season through the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC), reports The Financial Express. Joint Director of BADC (Seed), Sylhet region, Suprio Pal said there is a high demand of high-yielding Boro seeds among…
Iqbal Habib, Member Secretary of Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon We along with the late mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Annisul Huq, submitted a proposal to the government for bringing discipline to the public transport sector and the government accepted it. Accountability is found wanting in the government mechanism. In spite of accepting the proposal, the…
DOT Desk Café Mango and Gallery at Dhanmondi is hosting a month long group art exhibition titled, King Kortobbyo. The inaugural ceremony of the exhibition was held on November 24. The exhibition displays collective artworks by Azizee Fawmi Khan, Rakib Anwar, Khairul Alam, Al Nasir, Jawad Hossain, Pijush Talukder and Mehedi Hasan. The opening ceremony…