RANGPUR, Sept 12 (BSS): A day-long Branch Managers' Conference -2015 of Pubali Bank Limited (PBL) was held at the conference room of a local hotel in the city on Friday. Rangpur Regional Office of PBL organised the Branch Managers' Conference...
Bangladesh and the Netherlands have agreed for early implementation of the three instruments signed between the two countries during the twin ministerial visits from the Netherlands to Bangladesh in June this year, reports UNB. The agreements were on partnership for...
The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) and BRAC on Saturday signed an agreement on strategic partnership. It will entail BRAC principally acquiring a lead equity stake in Industrial Promotion Development Company of Bangladesh Limited (IPDC), a publicly listed...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 12 (BSS): The government has taken steps to impart training to 55,000 students on ICT to create skilled manpower in the ICT sector in the next two years so that they can work in any country across the...
At least 100 workers of a readymade garment factory fell sick for unknown reason at Jarun in the city's Konabari area on Saturday. Workers at the Keya Knit Composite Factory said a number of them started falling sick for an...
Bangladesh has assured the Thai police authorities of “all out cooperation” in tracing the activities of the Bangkok bomb blast suspect during his two weeks stay in Dhaka. Records of the Bangladesh embassy in Bangkok showed the alleged mastermind had...
The draft of the 7th Five Year Plan (FY2016-FY2020), aiming to accelerate employment generation and reduce poverty, is now ready and awaits the Prime Minister’s suggestions. "The final draft of the 7th Five-Year Plan is ready and we're awaiting Prime...
India gave away to Bangladesh 110 of the 111 enclaves and received 51 enclaves in return at midnight on July 31, but one enclave - Tripura's Muhurichar - remains to be decided. As part of the implementation of the Land...
Eighty-nine people have been killed and over 100 injured, 20 seriously, when a cylinder blast at a tea stall packed with customers was followed by a massive blast that ripped through an adjoining building in Madhya Pradesh's Jhabua district. It...
Some 40,000 migrants could arrive in Germany over the next two days, officials say - double the number who entered the country last weekend. The southern city of Munich received another 3,600 Saturday morning but there are concerns about how...
Police in a drive rescued 10 children from a flat in Banasree area in Rampura, Dhaka, on Saturday. Police also detained four people — Arifur, Hasibul Islam Sabuj, Zakia Sultana and Firoz Alam Shovo -- in connection with the incident....
Students of private universities across Bangladesh have announced a protest programme featuring an indefinite class abstention from Sunday to press their demand of cancellation of value added tax (VAT) on tuition fees. Moreover, a daylong road blockade in Dhala city...
The authorities of the private universities have ‘agreed’ to pay the VAT, Finance Minister AMA Mihith has said while urging the students to be alert against any fee hike. He was addressing a programme in Dhaka on Saturday amid students’...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
The world is now waiting for the last week of September when top-level representatives of 160 nations of the world will formally launch the post-2015 development agenda in the United Nations (UN). Officially dubbed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 15-year...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
In a recent book titled Poverty and Vulnerability in Rural Bangladesh (2015), S.R. Osmani, with others on board, reinforces the positive role of microcredit in alleviating poverty in rural Bangladesh. His findings are based on a large sample drawn from...
That dispensation of justice is a daunting challenge in a situation where the functioning of the judicial system is hamstrung by a huge backlog of pending cases needs no elaboration. Judicial procrastination or justice delayed, as the proverbial saying goes,...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
As internationally-acclaimed promoter of literacy Dr Frank Serafini said, "There is no child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book." Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's views on the International Literacy Day on Tuesday...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
Humanity is at stake in the Mediterranean and in the borders of some European countries. Boats carrying migrants to Europe were capsized off the coast of Libya where 250 migrants were presumed to have drowned in the fourth week of...
Recently, the governmental stance to continue the imposition of value added tax (VAT) on the tuition fees for private universities has enraged the students of such institutions along with their parents since they started to bear additional expenses above tuition...
Progress in the subject of robotic exploration of planets in outer space, as reported by AFP from the Netherlands, was published in your daily on September 09. Ss stated by scientists, complex electro-mechanical development in robot control technology will be...
Talk shows continue to be aired on all TV channels of Dhaka highlighting water-logging, traffic jam, dirty roads, foot paths occupied by hawkers, etc. But a recent study shows that Dhaka is the second dirtiest city of the world after...
Saleh Akram | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
The majority of people in Bangladesh, a basically and traditionally agricultural country, live in rural areas. More importantly, around 60 per cent of the country's labour force is engaged in agriculture directly or indirectly. Agriculture contributes less than a quarter...
Ferdaus Ara Begum | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
As one of continuous trade liberalisation initiatives in the Bali Package of the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference, Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) was adopted with an objective to reduce cost of transaction of international trade. The protocol of amendment for inserting...
M Firoze | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
The reinforced concrete (RC) structure is the accepted standard, for the design and construction of residential and commercial buildings in Bangladesh. All types of structures from 2-storey homes to 40-storey commercial, multi-purpose buildings have been built on RC Design theory...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
Both China and India - the two Asian leading economies - have started to experience the inevitable and inherent defects like economic ups and downs, characteristics of the traditional capitalistic economic development process. The capitalistic economics scholars are yet to...
Masum Billah | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
The World Vision, an NGO working in Bangladesh since 1971 with focus on child care, concern and protection along with its other areas of intervention, arranged a seminar at BRAC Centre on 5 September, 2015. At the event a researcher,...
Shahidul K K Shuvra | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh has decided to provide national ID card in the format of smart card when the country is struggling in providing its citizens better quality passports on time and in an efficient way. It is almost three decades that the...
Md Bayazid Khan | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
Aim of education is to bring desired behavioral changes among students and only knowledge-based education can never ensure bringing such changes. As primary education is the base of formal education pyramid, therefore primary school children need to acquire other skills...
The government has taken a move to revise the National Seed Policy 1993 and amend the existing Seed Act-1997 to make those time-befitting ones and encourage private investors as well as farmers to produce quality seeds, reports UNB. "The present...
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