Desk Report: Nearly 50 houses of Dhulia union have collapsed into water in the severe erosion of the Tetulia river, reports The Observer bd. Dhulia NK and Barujibipara Government Primary School and Dhulia Dakhil Madrasa, along with more than 1000 homesteads are threatened by the continued erosion. Chief Whip of the Jatiya Sangsad ASM Feroz…
Eshan Maitra It was not too long ago India put a probe into the Mars’s orbit in 2014, that only costed about $74 million. Their current Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems steadfast about space missions and to capture this commercial satellite market. That being said, they launched another very cheap but effective Mini-Shuttle and it was a…
Afrida Ahmed: Since the contractor couldn’t arrange sufficient fund, the project of Khulna 330 MW dual-fuel combined cycle power plant is going to get closed, reports UNB. On November 17, 2016 the government signed a contract with the Chinese Consortium of Harbin Electric International Co Ltd (HEI), and Jiangsu Etern Co Ltd to construct the plant’s…
Reported by: Masud Mia Written by: Eshan Maitra Export Promotion Bureau reports that, Bangladesh has exported over 40,693 crores taka worth goods to Germany in past 11 months. From July-May of 2016-17 fiscal year. That was 13.51% more than last fiscal year. Bangladesh earned total of 24,750.62 crores taka in past 11 months, from exporting…
Afrida Ahmed BNP Advisory Council member Abdul Awal Mintoo, his wife and three sons have been named in the Paradise Papers leaks. The leak shows that Awal Mintoo, his wife Nasreen Fatema Awal, and three sons — Tabith Mohammed Awal, Tafsir Mohammed Awal and Tajwar Muhammed Awal are shareholders and hold top positions in the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Jatiya Oikyafront postponed its schedule of announcing the final list of candidates for contesting in the upcoming general election, reports The Daily Star. “We postponed the announcement due to unavoidable circumstances,” said Latiful Bari Hamim, a staff of Oikyafront’s media wing. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday told reporters…
Reuters: Pilgrims from across the world are gathering in India for the Kumbh Mela, a heady mix of spirituality, politics and tourism that begins on Tuesday, garnering extra attention ahead of a general election in the Hindu-majority country this year. During the eight-week festival at Prayagraj in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, authorities expect…
Gary Younge, Noted columnist/ Gulf News For quite some time during the primary season for the 2016 presidential race, Democratic party leaders were delighted that Donald Trump was leading the Republican pack. They assumed the brash reality TV star would expose the bigotry of the Republican base before flaming out and leaving a more plausible…
Arab News: Israel reopened its only crossing for people with the Gaza Strip on Monday, a week after shutting it over violence along the border with the Palestinian enclave. The reopening, following days of relative calm, comes as Egypt holds talks with Palestinian officials as part of efforts to reach a long-term truce with Israel….
DOT Desk: The effort to digitalise Dhaka’s traffic by replacing the manual systems with electronic traffic signals is going in vain due to technical glitches in the signal lights and other equipment, reports The Daily Sun. Installed in 2004, the signal lights and other equipment were left dysfunction for years. Multiple glitches erupted within days…