SYDNEY, Feb 23 (AFP): Australia stayed silent on alleged human rights abuses in Sri Lanka in exchange for cooperation in cracking down on people-smuggling, Sri Lankan new Prime Minister (PM) Ranil Wickremesinghe said Monday. Wickremesinghe said former president Mahinda Rajapakse...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday sought more Swedish investment in different sectors of the country, reports UNB. "We need more investment…so we're setting up 20 more export processing zones (EPZs) across the country," she said when newly appointed Swedish...
FE Report | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
Economic development and progress in human development must complement each other to help reach the fruit of development to under as well as less privileged segments of the society, said Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen in Dhaka Monday. And to...
FE Report | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh ranked one of the lowest in terms of operating profit among 20 countries surveyed by JETRO although it offers the lowest worker wage. Compared with Japan, cost of production in Bangladesh is less than half (48.7 per cent), while...
FE Report | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
The central bank issued a fresh rescheduled policy on short-term agriculture loans Monday aiming to boost production through facilitating farmers across the country, officials said. Under the policy, the banks are allowed to reschedule such agriculture loans under 'banker-client' relationship...
Apparently in the wake of the leak of telephonic conversations between its chief Mahmudur Rahman Manna and a top BNP leader, Nagorik Oikya postponed Monday its mass procession in the city halfway. Nagorik Oikya organised the rally in front of...
SYLHET, Feb 23: Four workers were killed in a landslide while extracting stones from Bholaganj stone quarry in Companyganj upazila on Sunday night. The deceased were identified as Moin (40), son of Etim Hossain, Dana Mia (42), son of Anwar...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Feb 22: Lemon cultivation has helped a good number of growers in different districts in Rangpur division improve their financial condition. A number of farmers of the region have changed their lot by cultivating it in recent years. According...
A BSS report says: Speakers at a child fair have stressed for ensuring rights of the unprivileged and vulnerable children to make them worthy citizens through flourishing their latent talent in congenial atmosphere. They also called for ensuring child-friendly atmosphere...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 22 (BSS): Some newly developed drought-tolerant and high-yielding wheat varieties, especially BARI Gom-26, have started gaining popularity among farmers of the drought-prone Barind tract. With the breakthrough, farmers have started using the varieties instead of the outdated ones...
NETRAKONA, Feb 22 (BSS): The three-day digital innovation fair-2015 was inaugurated on Netrakona old collectorate building premises here today. The deputy minister for youth and sports, Arif Khan Joy, inaugurated the fair. Deputy commissioner Netrakona Dr. Torun Kanti Shikder chaired...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Feb 22: 'Language Movement and International Mother Language Day' was observed on Saturday evening at Kurir Dob Field in Narail by lighting 0.01 candles. The massive traditional candle lighting programme organised by Ekush Udjapan Parishad, Narail was inaugurated this...
KHULNA, Feb 22 (BSS): Speakers at a consultative workshop on Sunday for journalists here stressed the need for ensuring sound health for women and children for building a worthy nation. Terming healthy mothers to give birth to healthy children, they...
RANGPUR, Feb 22 (BSS): Speakers at a reception ceremony today said there is no alternative to properly educating the children to make them worthy citizens for building an ideal and enlightened society and prosperous nation in future. They put emphasis...
JAMALPUR, Feb 22 (BSS): Fisheries Department will impart training to 150 fish cultivators in six upazilas of the district for increasing galda shrimp cultivation here. District fisheries office sources said Taka 0.21 million was allotted for the training under the...
CHITTAGONG, Feb 22 (UNB): Two people were killed in a head-on collision between two CNG-run auto-rickshaws in Kathirkat area of Hathazari upazila on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Osman,53, and Idris, 45-both residents of Fatikchhari upazila. The accident...
Man commits suicide in Barisal A man allegedly committed suicide over family feud at Pattanibhanga' village under Hijla Upazila in Barisal the district Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Jewel Nali, 32, son of Sobhan Nali of the same...
Muhammad Zamir | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
Kejriwal and Modi have proven that it is possible for an ordinary man to come into politics in India and win. It has been a departure from what had been happening over the last 67 years, when politics had become...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
President Barack Obama was heavily criticised at home and abroad when he failed to show solidarity with world leaders that had gathered in Paris last month against violent religious fundamentalism that led to the terrorist attacks on the Hebdo journalists....
Mixed feelings with a tilt towards the negatives of public private partnership (PPP) have been there, due to, what the observers consider, the lack of sufficient drive and a secure mechanism of collaborative funding. This has particularly been the case,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
The government spends billions of taka annually on account of subsidies. Bulk of the same is spent in the form of incentives to exporters and support, both in cash and kind, to the poor and marginal farmers and the underprivileged...
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