DOT Desk The new powerhouse in domestic football Bashundhara Kings will be looking for their first silverware in top-flight football when they take on Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra in the Independence Cup final at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday, reports The New Age. Kings came close to winning a title in their debut season at…
UNB, Dhaka The government is going to downsize the revised annual development programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year (FY16) to Tk 88000 crore from the original ADP outlay of Tk 97,000 crore due to the slow pace in implementation. The RADP size will be 9.27 percent less compared to the original size, according…
Jahidul Haque Chandan, Manikganj: Three people have been killed and 20 others injured after a bus crashed on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Manikganj. The deceased could not be identified immediately. However, three of the injured were in a critical state. The accident occurred at 3:00pm yesterday in the vicinity of Baniajuri cross bridge. According to…
Dhara On June 7th, the FDA approved the use of a weight loss device that has often been described as “Assisted Bulimia”. It pumps food out of the client’s stomach, removing about 30 percent of the stored food before it causes weight gain. Named AspireAssist, critics say that this might be the most peculiar invention…
Hossen Sohel: Ruling out any chance of his resignation,categorically said the agitating students did not ask for his resignation in their nine-point demand. “It is the opposition BNP that pushing for my resignation not the students. BNP has been demanding the resignation of Prime Minister and the ruling government for long now. So there is…
DOT Desk: A bridge for pedestrians and light vehicles on the Rayenda river at Rayenda Bazar in Sharankhola upazila has remained at risk of collapse as its iron pillars got badly damaged, reports The Daily Star. The condition of the bridge is so bad that it even shakes while people are crossing it, said Kamal…
Amelia Smith/Middle East Monitor Rabaa represents the failed hope of Egyptian democracy and it set a precedent for the despicable brutality of a regime towards its own citizens. Expectations that deposed President Mohammed Morsi would return came to a brutal end in Rabaa Square five years ago today after security forces advanced on demonstrators, shot…
BSS, Dhaka Transmission of Dhaka Betar came to a halt suddenly just before Bangabandhu started delivering his historic March 7 speech at the Ramna Race Course Maidan in 1971. Dhaka Betar kept its operation stopped till mid-night. The Dhaka centre of the television was also closed at night. So, Bangabandhu’s speech could not be directly…
Sayeed Muhammad: A diving squad has recovered the bodies of three people who were missing after a boat capsized in the Chalan Beel of Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila, with two others still untraced. The divers recovered the bodies of two women and a child, said Chatmohar Upazila UNO Sarkar Ashim Kumar, reports The Financial Express citing…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The High Court yesterday issued a contempt of court rule against the chief election commissioner, four election commissioners and Election Commission’s secretary for not allowing Oikyaboddho Nagorik Andolon to run the upcoming general election, reports The Daily Star. In the rule, the court asked the CEC, four commissioners and the EC…