M Humayun Kabir: Grame-enphone, the market leader operator, has crossed the landmark of seven crore active subscribers in Bangladesh, a magic figure for any mobile operators even in the global perspective. Michael Patrick Foley, chief executive officer of Grameenphone shared greetings with the executives, GP yesterday said on its official Facebook page. Foley, in his…
DOT Desk: Small and medium entrepreneurs’ loan from banks and non-bank financial institutions declined by 6.01 per cent or Tk 7,391.28 crore in January-September period of the year 2018 compared with that in the same period of the year 2017, reports The New Age. As per a recently released central bank report, banks and NBFIs…
Md. Ali Raj: After his shock election win last week broke the six-decade stranglehold of a corruption-riddled regime, Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad officially got down to work yesterday. As he started his second time as a Prime Minister who was also having previously been in office for two decades and also arrived at…
Mahmudur Rahman writes for DOT : Bangladesh’s voters have made the choice of not electing a workable opposition in the eleventh parliament thereby denting one of democracy’s main arms. Effectively this means there will be no opposition to keep the treasury bench in some form of order. This was the norm in the last parliament…
Marilyn Thipthorpe The Jungle Book is all set to hit the big screen come April 8th. Now I’m sure almost everyone who has ever read this Rudyard Kipling classic or seen the cartoons and films adapted from it have some fond remembrances of Mowgli, Baloo (a.k.a Papa Bear), Bageera, Sher Khan and the many other…
Marilyn Thipthorpe It may be time to rewrite history textbooks. Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have uncovered evidence that the Indus Valley Civilization is at least 8,000 years old, and not 5,500 years old, taking root well before the Egyptian (7000BC to 3000BC) and Mesopotamian (6500BC to 3100BC) civilizations. What’s more,…
DOT Desk: Researchers at Khulna University are claiming to have developed salinity-tolerant varieties of fruits, raising the prospects for fruit production in the country’s coastal areas, reports The Daily Star. The experiment has reached its final stage and farmers will be able to cultivate these new varieties within the next three years, said the researchers….
UNB Bangladesh can be a prime destination for foreign tourists who wish to visit any Asian country if required facilities like a vibrant night life for tourists and digital promotional activities could be ensured, says an expert. “What we’ve are extraordinary, natural and God-gifted ones. But we need to do much more to attract foreign…
Joe Tankersley, Writer, futurist, & former Walt Disney Imagineer/Thrive Global Harvard research says you’re not alone. Do you worry that your future is going to suck? Not just your personal future, but that of your friends, family, even the entire planet? Are you convinced that your tomorrows will be filled with more challenges than opportunities?…