European shares opened lower on Friday, setting a key regional index on course for its steepest weekly fall so far this year, after Greece delayed a key debt payment and as caution prevailed ahead of US employment data. The pan-European...
The Indian Army is expected to launch a massive counter-insurgency operation in Manipur where 18 soldiers were killed in an ambush by militants a day earlier. According to a NDTV report, 50 militants carried out the attack and used US-made...
Indian Prime Minister Narenandra Modi arrives in Dhaka on Saturday morning on a two-day visit which will have special focus on connectivity and security issues apart from signing of a number of instruments and deals, aiming to take the ties...
A researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital has successfully grown the world's first biolimb, The Washington Post reports. It's a rat's forearm and hand, and it looks a little smaller than an adult human's thumb. Researchers are hopeful this could be...
The apparel sector has strongly criticized the budget proposals and demanded the withdrawal of the proposed tax at source. The 2015-16 budget proposes a hike in the industry’s tax at source to one percent from the present 0.30, bdnews24.com reported....
Chinese hackers are suspected of carrying out a "massive breach" of the personal data of nearly four million US government workers, officials said. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) confirmed that both current and past employees had been affected. The...
Transport workers on Friday blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for an hour and vandalised over 15 vehicles at Gazipur over the assault of a truck driver on Thursday night. Police said there had been loggerhead between two local Jubo League leaders- Faruk...
BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Friday termed the new budget for FY 2015-16 a 'fake budget by a fake government’. "Were they people's representative those who placed the budget? They came to power one and a...
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan Friday said shipping-related bilateral agreements would be implemented during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Dhaka visit. He said this while talking to journalists after a general meeting of district Awami League at Shibchar in Madaripur The...
Bangladesh has summoned Myanmar’s ambassador in Dhaka over a Rakhine state minister’s comment at a Naypyidaw diplomatic briefing. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Ambassador Myo Myint Than on Friday afternoon. The ministry did not issue any statement, but bdnews24.com...
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck near Southeast Asia's highest peak in Malaysia early Friday injured 11 climbers and left about 130 people stranded, officials said. The quake struck northwest of Ranau district in Sabah state on Borneo at a depth...
Civil society think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue(CPD) has termed mobilization of funds along with collecting the revenue target and implementation of development plans as the toughest challenges of the proposed budget for fiscal year 2015-16 (FY16). "The biggest challenge of...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Muhith on Friday strongly defended the budget outlay for the forthcoming FY2015-16, saying he drew a clear implementation strategy in his budget speech to achieve fiscal targets. "I have given clear direction about the implementation strategy...
Former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will meet Indian Prime Minister Narandra Modi, who arrives in the capital on Saturday morning, during his maiden visit to Bangladesh. Indian Foreign Secretary Dr S Jaishankar confirmed it while briefing media...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday called upon all to strengthen tree plantation campaign across the country. They made the call in separate messages on the eve of National Tree Plantation Campaign and Tree Fair- 2015,...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has arrived in Dhaka Friday night, hours before the arrival of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam received her at the airport after a regular Air India...
The Ministry of Home Affairs has shaken up Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).DMP released a statement Friday saying the ministry made changes in 17 posts the previous day. In its Thursday’s circular, the home ministry also ordered transfer of 59 police...
A fire broke out at a market in the city’s Mouchak area Friday night. Witnesses said the fire erupted at a cosmetic shop on the first floor of ‘Mejbahuddin Plaza’ near Mouchak Market around 10pm. On information, five fire-fighting units...
Red carpet is set to be rolled out as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in city Saturday on his maiden two-day state visit after his swearing-in as the 15th prime minister of India on May 26, 2014. Modi is...
Tariq Aziz, known as the face of Saddam Hussein's regime on the world stage for many years, has died in an Iraqi hospital, officials say. Aziz, 79, served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister and was a close adviser...
A lower court in the Indian state of Meghalaya on Friday granted detained BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed in a case filed for trespassing. Shillong District and Sessions Judge Court granted the BNP leader bail at about 4:00pm (local...
It is an honour to address you, the people of Bangladesh, on this important date in the history of Denmark. The 5th of June marks the historic day in 1849 when King Frederik VII signed Denmark's first constitution. Since then...
Denmark was among the first countries to officially recognise Bangladesh following Independence in 1971. Bangladesh was then one of the poorest nations in the world and on the verge of humanitarian disaster. Today, a little more than 40 years later,...
Like the other Nordic countries, Denmark is characterised by universal welfare services such as free healthcare and free education. The Danes also get lots of fresh air by being one of the most bicycle-friendly populations on the planet. Modern design...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-06-05 00:00:00
Primary education is like the foundation of a multi-storied building. As a weak foundation brings to the fore the risk of the entire building collapsing, the lowest tier of our education system is fraught with such a danger today. Although...
Md. Touhidul Alam Khan | 2015-06-05 00:00:00
The Earth is composed of 70.80 per cent water and 29.20 per cent land. Out of the total water portfolio as much as 97 per cent is salt water and only 3.0 per cent is fresh water. Only 5.0 per...
The rising trend of shrimp cultivation with its negative consequences on environment, ecology and agricultural land is becoming a major concern for the country's south-western region. Despite the immediate gains from local marketing and exports, the present method of shrimp...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-06-05 00:00:00
Now-a-days gambling in the Dhaka Stock Exchange is not visible because its extent is not huge, and does not happen in case of many stocks. But it is there under the surface in a miniature form. Gamblers pick up one...
Ridwan Quaium | 2015-06-05 00:00:00
Oceans cover 72 per cent of the surface of this planet. Oceans and seas support all life forms on the planet by generating oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide, recycling nutrients and controlling the global temperature. Oceans and seas provide food and...
A few days back I along with one of my colleagues was going to a commercial bank for a personal job. On the way to the bank, we were stopped by some members of 'bede' community or floating people begging...
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