China's central bank has devalued the national currency, the yuan, to its lowest rate against the US dollar in almost three years. The lender said the move was a "one-off depreciation" of 1.9% in a move to make the exchange...
Greece has agreed a bailout deal "in principle" with its creditors, the European Commission has said. The Commission said a technical agreement had been reached with Greece, which now requires political approval. Earlier, Greece's finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos had said...
Police arrested two suspected war crimes accused in Fulbaria upazila of Mymensingh Tuesday noon. The arrestees were identified as Hazi Amjad Ali and Riaz Uddin Fakir, a news agency report confirmed. A team of police arrested Amjad Ali from Keshoreganj...
Abul Khayer, DB Inspector and the investigation officer of the case filed over the killing of Special Branch officer Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman, testified before a tribunal on Tuesday. Judge Syed Ahmed of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-3...
The Supreme Court has asked for video footage of a talk show and news aired by Ekattor TV and the audio of the conversation between two Supreme Court judges broadcast by the TV channel. The four-member appeals bench headed by...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Tuesday said law enforcers have got enough clues and evidence to arrest the killers of ‘blogger’ Niladri Chaterjee alias Niloy. “We’ll arrest the killers after scrutinising the evidence,” he told reporters after inaugurating Dhaka...
Ruling Awami League’s Advisory Council Member Suranjit Sengupta has admitted that government has failed to maintain law and order even though the ministers are not willing to accept any such shortcoming despite recent spate of killings of children and secular...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will raise the issue of the Rohingya Muslim genocide in Myanmar at the United Nations during its upcoming General Assembly session according to a report on the aaj.tv website on Aug 11. “The prime minister...
Md Jashim Uddin has been re-elected president of Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BPGMEA) for 2015-2016. The election to the BPGMEA was held on Tuesday at BPGMEA Board Room in the capital where all the candidates were elected...
SYLHET: Hosts Bangladesh smartly reached the semi-final of the six-nation SAFF U-16 Championship with one match to spare eliminating Sri Lanka by 4-0 goals in their first Group A match at the Sylhet Stadium Tuesday. Sarwan Zaman Nipu struck twice,...
Bangladesh Coast Guard rescued two Takkhok (tokay gecko) worth around Tk26 million from Khulna and released them into the Sundarbans on Tuesday. Sources at the Coast Guard headquarters said acting on a tip-off, an operational team of Coast Guard West...
Bangladesh Coast Guard rescued two Takkhok (tokay gecko) worth around Tk 26 million from Khulna and released them into the Sundarbans Tuesday. Sources at the Coast Guard headquarters said acting on a tip-off, an operational team of Coast Guard West...
Fragments of a suspected Russian missile system have been found at the Flight MH17 crash site in Ukraine, investigators in the Netherlands say. They say the parts, possibly from a Buk surface-to-air system, are "of particular interest" and could help...
Six Ganajagaran Mancha activists in Barisal have been allegedly threatened by Islamist militants on Facebook, three days after suspected extremists hacked blogger Niladri Chatterjee Niloy to death. The Facebook account ‘Ansar BD’, issued the treat on Monday with pictures of...
A two-day youth fair against corruption begins Thursday in the city. Transparency International is going to organize the show marking the International Youth Day on August 12. Dhaka University vice chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique will inaugurate the festival as...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) urged Brazilian businessmen on Tuesday to invest in Bangladesh’s infrastructure, leather footwear, power & energy, pharmaceuticals and ship-building industry. DCCI President Hossain Khaled made the call during his meeting with Brazilian Ambassador to...
Concerned Citizens’ Group, a platform of noted citizens, at a roundtable in the city Tuesday sought a constitutional amendment to make a balance between the power of the President and the Prime Minister. They said constitutional and institutional reforms are...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has given up on getting US to revive GSP facility for Bangladesh. He said, the government will take no new initiatives to have preferential trade facilities in the US revived. He said this after Washington did...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, also the leader of the 20-party alliance, has called for a meeting at her Gulshan political office in the city on Wednesday night. BNP chairperson’s media wing officer Shairul Kabir Khan said this on Tuesday. According...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Vietnam is ready to become a development partner of Bangladesh. He said this during a meeting with Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid at the State Ceremonial Hall of the Prime Minister's Office in Hanoi....
Saudi-backed forces loyal to Yemen’s exiled government have announced the recapture of Abyan province in a southern offensive that has seen key gains against the Houthi rebels. Military officials who back President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said on Tuesday that loyalist...
Momtaz Uddin Ahmed | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
Discussions, research and analysis are as intense as problematic is the issue of SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) financing globally. Despite frantic efforts made by the policymakers towards solving financial constraints facing the SMEs, the problem of restricted access to...
Saleh Akram | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
Growth and development are more often than not equated with each other. As a matter of fact, growth can not be interpreted as development or vice versa by any stretch of imagination. An attempt to draw an analogy between the...
A proposal given by Jose Maura, Director of the International Oil Pollution Compensation (IOPC) Funds, for Bangladesh to become a member of the compensatory body should be considered quite a generous offer. Reportedly, there is no financial involvement for the...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
A worker or labourer is defined as a person who is engaged at least for one hour in activities that increase or save income for the household. Under this definition are included both full-time and part-time labourers whereas in the...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
Jute, popularly known as 'golden fibre' for ages, has become alternately both a boon and a bane for the country's farming millions who depend heavily for their livelihood on this product. One bad year - low price for the product...
The success rate in the HSC exam this year has declined compared to the results of the last eight years. The education ministry may try and find out the reasons behind this, but those who failed to succeed are obviously...
Leadership is the quality of an individual in directing the activities of an organised group toward a shared goal. This is fully true about Dr Muhammad Yunus. He improvised the concept of micro credit for the rural poor. Born on...
Eid ul Azha is a little more than a month away and greater number of people are likely to go out of Dhaka to celebrate the festival with their near and near ones in their village homes. We are used...
Shamsul Alam | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
Following the UN Millennium Declaration, Bangladesh well-tuned the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into its long-term and mid-term development Plans and now is reaping the benefits of it in different socio-economic arena. The latest publication of Bangladesh MDGs Progress Report 2014...
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