Smoking among women in the developed world is decreasing while it is increasing in the developing countries. The number of smokers among ladies in Dhaka is rising and we need to be alert against it. Even in the heart of...
Your 'Trade & Market' page of June 02, raised the issue of six mega projects, titled 'Whither large infra projects?' It was interestingly presented with six small pictures with critical facts in brief. Of the big six, three are power...
Shamsul Alam in the second of his three-part article | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
A notable feature of poverty reduction between 2005 and 2010 was a significant decline in the incidence of extreme poverty. The percentage of population under the lower poverty line, the threshold for extreme poverty, decreased by 29.6 per cent (or...
M. Seraiul Islam | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
Mehreen emailed me the other day to remind me that it is time to commemorate her father, my dearest "Mamu" Shabbir Ibne Yusuf. The email was a surprise but not because I needed to be reminded about her father's death...
JHENIDAH, June 4 (UNB): A student of Dhaka University was killed and 4 people were injured in a road accident in Gulshan intersection in Kaliganj upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Aminul Islam, son of Jainal Bepari...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
SYLHET, July 4: World Bank has sanctioned Tk 1550 million for development projects under its Municipal Governance Support Project (MGSP) in Sylhet City Corporation (SCC). The 5-year programme starts in the new fiscal 2015-2016, officials said at a programme Thursday...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, July 4: Cultivation of transplanted Aman has started in Nilphamari district. The farmers are now busy preparing their Aman cultivable land with wooden plough, power tiller and tractors. The transplantation process will continue up to the end of the...
RAJSHAHI, July 4 (BSS): Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has been implementing 5720 schemes involving Tk 17.65 billion (Tk 1765.22 crore) in eight districts under Rajshahi division during the current 2015-16 fiscal year. According to the LGED sources, work on...
Our Correspondent BOGRA, July 4: The farmers and officials concerned of Bogra district including its vast Barind area are expecting a satisfactory production of golden cash crop jute in this season if the climate condition remains favourable. The cash crop...
BENAPOLE, July 4 (UNB): A housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband for dowry at Goira village here on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Sathi Khatun (18), wife of Shahin of the same village. Locals said...
NARSINGDI, July 4 (BSS): A good number of children in the char areas of Sadar and Raipura upazilas of the district are being deprived of the right to compulsory primary education due to poverty, ignorance, shortage of schools and lack...
RAJSHAHI, July 4 (BSS): State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam asked all concerned officials and staffs to work for successful implementation of 'Ekti Bari Ekti Khamar' (One Homestead, One Farm) project to make a dent in the labyrinth of...
RU Correspondent | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, July 4: The members of United Nations Youth and Students Association of Bangladesh (UNYSAB), a model organisation of United Nations, Rajshahi unit, Friday distributed Eid clothings among hundreds underprivileged children of the city, a press release said. UNYSAB...
SATKHIRA, July 4 (UNB): Two people were beaten to death in separate incidents in Ashashuni and Sadar upazilas on Friday. Azmal Huda, officer-in-charge of Ashashuni Police Station, said a local trader was beaten to death by some people over realising...
Grandmaster Abdullah Al Rakib of Bangladesh Navy emerged unbeaten champion in the Walton International Rating Chess Tournament which concluded at Bangladesh Chess Federation hallroom Saturday. Rakib earned 8.5 after the final round of the meet to clinch the title, confirmed...
Foreigners do not have faith in Bangladesh’s Election Commission, the BNP has said. The comment comes after, an EC project-- Strengthening Election Management in Bangladesh-- that was being funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was terminated eight months...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted an Iftar for judges, diplomats and government officials at her official residence Ganobhaban on Saturday. The Prime Minister went round different tables set for the guests, exchanged pleasantries with them and enquired about their wellbeing....
Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets on Friday in rival rallies that laid bare the deep divide heading into a referendum that may decide the country’s future in Europe’s single currency. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, elected in...
An Awami League leader, who was allegedly hacked by a group of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists in Monohorganj upazila of Comilla on June 29 last, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Tongi of Gazipur district on Saturday....
Residents of Kushtia’s Kumarkhali Upazila, led by MP Abdur Rouf, have stopped wheat, imported from Brazil, from entering the local warehouse. They stopped the unloading of the wheat when it reached the Upazila food department’s warehouse on Saturday morning, according...
A court in Chittagong summoned on Saturday the officials concerned of the Chittagong Port Authority and the customs department to appear before it by Sunday to explain how the liquid cocaine reached the port. Jafar Alam, director (admin) of the...
The government is keeping the judiciary on a short leash, says BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. The former prime minister attended an Iftar party organised by pro-BNP lawyers’ forum at the Supreme Court auditorium Saturday. She said that the judiciary had...
Shamsul Alam | 2015-07-04 00:00:00
The government is strongly committed to reduce poverty, improve human development and reduce inequality. This commitment is rightly reflected in the Perspective Plan of Bangladesh 2010-2021 (Making Vision 2021 a Reality), the ongoing Sixth Five Year Plan FY11-FY15 (Accelerating Growth...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-07-04 00:00:00
The new fiscal year 2015-16 starts with a new budget that provides some protection to the country's domestic industries. Although most of the local manufactures and producers are not happy enough as they find the protection measures, mostly through tariffs,...
Md. Touhidul Alam Khan | 2015-07-04 00:00:00
Islamic banking is now a widely used term and has emerged as one of the most important trends in the financial world. Demand for financial products and services that follow the shariah or Islamic law had always been there. With...
Six manuals prepared under a project titled 'Capacity Development of Natural Disaster Resistant Techniques of Construction and Retrofitting for Public Buildings (CNCRP)' come as a blessing for the country's construction sector. The purpose is to construct quake-resistant buildings and retrofit...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-07-04 00:00:00
Of over 1,00,000 private and public limited companies, only 300 have gone public and got listed with the bourses of the country. The number of listed companies will slightly go up if those, which were sent to the OTC market...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-07-04 00:00:00
Foreign aid has dwindled globally due to recession in western countries. Huge devastation of infrastructures as well as miseries of people in erstwhile East Pakistan during the 1971 liberation war had seen foreign friends of the country providing generous funds...
This news and accompanying photographs were published in most newspapers on 30th June, the last day of the financial year. All of us are aware that the aircraft is expensive and their types hard to afford for poor countries like...
Import of rotten wheat from Brazil has already created a furore in society and the media has taken a strong stand on the issue. It is sad that the High Court had to issue orders to the government to verify...
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