Iffat Anjum, policy analyst at BRAC Advocacy for Social Change/BRAC Mukta Begum, a woman of 23 from Satkhira, was promised with a job in India by her neighbour. Mukta saw the opportunity as a way to escape a life of poverty. She took up the offer and travelled to India wi ...বিস্তারিত
Kazi Anis Ahmed I don’t think elevating the crime is helpful - when you can’t prevent or prosecute the lesser crime! This latest tragic accident is part of a wider pattern of fires in factories, slums, buildings and even road accidents. In the world’s most congested c ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: A boy, Nayeem Islam, sat on a leak in a Fire Service hosepipe to ensure that water flowed normally during the fire at Banani’s FR tower on Thursday, reports Dhaka Tribune. A photo of him sitting on the hose went viral overnight, and has drawn him a lot of attent ...বিস্তারিত
Mahmuda Rahman Khan writes for DOT : We have been independent since 1971, to be precise we will celebrate 48th year of independence this year. Bangladesh will be the third fastest growing economy in the world in terms of achieving high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2019 ...বিস্তারিত
Bangla Tribune: The government is planning to procure 1.25 million tonne of rice and 50,000 tonne of wheat in the upcoming months. Food Minister Shadhan Chandra Majumder told the media that they will purchase 1 million tonne of parboiled rice, 150,000 tonne of sunned rice an ...বিস্তারিত
UNB: The land development cost of the under-construction Sylhet Hi-Tech Park project is going to be increased by about Tk 17.15 crore. According to official sources at the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division, a proposal was forwarded by the Bangladesh Hi ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: The Marine Fisheries Survey & Management Unit has embarked on a research project to determine the peak breeding season of some commercially important marine fish species in the Bay of Bengal, reports The Dhaka Tribune. As part of the research, a histology labo ...বিস্তারিত
NTV Online: The US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller visited Rajshahi on a two-day tour where he inaugurated the new American Corner at Varendra University and laid a wreath at the Rajshahi University Shahid Minar Monument to commemorate the Bangladesh Liberation War. H ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: A fire struck a high-rise office building in Bangladesh’s capital on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and injuring about 70 others, officials said, reports The Daily Star. NTV Online has found that Faruk Rupayan Tower (FR Tower) had caught fire back in 2008. ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: The government has taken the initiative to make changes in the digital commerce policy, following objections from foreign e-commerce ventures. The gazette notification, issued by the commerce ministry on January 31, has barred the holding of majority stake by forei ...বিস্তারিত