Hossen Sohel of DOT Bangladesh Bank has announced its monetary policy for the second half of the current fiscal year 2018-19 (FY19), reducing private sector credit growth to 16.5%, reports Dhaka Tribune. Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir announced the monetary policy at his office in Dhaka yesterday. For the July to December period of 2018,…
Reuters: Texas cattle rancher Bill Martin is a lifelong Republican who owns more than 20 firearms and has been shooting guns since the age of 6. He is now considering the once-unthinkable: voting for a Democratic Senate candidate who wants tougher gun laws. Martin, 72, has a simple explanation for his change of heart: He…
Kabir Humayun: BNP will hold doa mahfil across the country on August 15 marking the ‘74th birthday’ of its chairperson Khaleda Zia. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, party’s senior joint secretary general, made the announcement at a programme at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office yesterday, reports UNB. Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal arranged the programme marking Khaleda’s late son Arafat…
DOT Desk Due to lack of proper preservation, more than 50 mass graves of the district are becoming extinct, reports The Daily Observer. Many of the mass graves have not been identified yet. The process to identify the graves was taken several times, but later stopped for unknown reasons. As a result, the land of…
BSS: State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid yesterday said Bangladesh has a plan to import 9,000 megawatts electricity from Nepal to mitigate the increasing demand of electricity by 2040. The state minister said this while addressing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing deal over the cooperation in power sector between Bangladesh…
Sofian Khan Sylhet’s traditional art of ‘Shital Pati’ weaving has been graven on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity by UNESCO. At Jeju in South Korea, the recognition was given at UNESCO’s 12 ICH Committee session.According to its official website, this is the third ICH from Bangladesh inscribed by UNESCO….
UNB: Many think public universities are meant for only providing education. Not exactly! These days, students come up with their basic health needs and university medical centres are supposed to address those. A few days back, a female student of Dhaka University shared in social media what she experienced at the institution’s medical centre. She…
‘Space X’ a private rocket company recently announced a dream project which can make a great humming all over the world who extremely love travel. The company said they have a plan to add tourist with the rocket crew and team. Since the early 1970s US has not sent any astronauts in moon. That’s why,…
Wio News: The world is on course to miss its “best chance” of preventing runaway climate change by ensuring global greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2020, researchers warned Tuesday. Even as Earth is buffeted by superstorms, droughts and flooding made worse by rising seas, and as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise globally, an analysis…
DOT Desk Bangladesh has taken an initiative to adopt the latest technological innovations, and some companies have already setup Internet of Things (IoT) laboratories in the country, reports The Independent. Different countries have already adopted this technological innovation and 30 billion IoT devices are expected to be in the world by 2020, helping to improve…