Nilratan Halder | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
In the political history of human civilisation, countries surely have encountered far worse national crises than the one Bangladesh is facing today. But few in today's world have had the misfortune of waging a war against its own people. The...
Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) was born in the Maronite family of Gibran in Bsharri, a mountainous area in Northern Lebanon. His mother Kamila Rahmeh was thirty when she gave birth to Gibran from her third husband Khalil Gibran, who proved...
Ali Enayet | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Climate change is already having a devastating impact on the lives of people around the world. Many of the poorest people and countries in the global South, especially Bangladesh and many developing countries, are suffering the worst of its effects....
Dr Mostaq Ahmmed | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
With much amazement and joy, inhabitants of Dhurong Bazar and its surrounding homes in Kutubdia were dazzled with bright lights last month -- there was no deafening noise and stiffening smug of generators burning away fossil fuel. The lights came...
Zeenat Khan | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
A few years ago a writer friend of mine told me the reason for why she has been living in Europe for the past thirty years. It was a choice that she and her husband had made to get away...
The reported move to downsize the development budget of Bangladesh Railways (BR) is disheartening, particularly at a time when revamping this sector should have been a priority. Slow project execution is stated to be the prime reason for downscaling the...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
For a change the World Economic Forum (WEF) held its four-day talk-fest at the Swiss ski resort Davos peacefully this year. There was no ugly and noisy demonstration by youths with protest placards in their hands struggling with security forces....
Md. Ashraf Hossain | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Recently the Banik Barta, a local Bangladesh newspaper reported that major drug producers in the country had priced a 500 mg Ciprofloxacin capsule at around Tk15 whereas its cost was Tk1.50. It means the drug producers are making 1,000 percent...
Many a Bangladeshi political activist living in the USA did not like the idea of naming a sreet as 'Ziaur Rahman Way' in the city of Chicago, one of the largest cities in that country. Those activists did not hesitate...
Sometimes a question comes to my mind: 'Is Bangladesh ruled by its citizens?' The continuous hartal and blockade has become a part of everyone's daily life. Children are not being able to go to school, people are not being able...
G.M. Khurshid Alam | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Land survey is an important ingredient in the updating of land records. The survey, which leads to settlement, is seen as a temporary process where only certain parts of the country are covered at particular points of time. Table 3...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh-India bilateral trade is always a matter of sensitive debate and to many, the key reason for this sensitivity is the trade balance overwhelmingly tilted towards India. Experts have spent thousands of pages to analyse the trends, barriers and prospects...
Fahmida Hashem | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Most parents probably do not think about what cholesterol means for their kids. But high levels of cholesterol are a major contributing factor for heart disease and stroke, and medical research shows that cardiovascular disease has its roots in childhood....
SINGAPORE, Feb 6 (Reuters): Gold steadied on Friday ahead of crucial U.S. employment data, but was set to post its biggest weekly loss in almost two months after steep gains at the start of the year. A strong U.S. jobs...
FARIDPUR, Feb 6 (BSS): A comprehensive programme to produce Boro paddy, the major food crop of the district has been taken up by the District Agricultural Extension Department (DAE) in the current season. The transplantation of the Boro seedlings is...
ROME, Feb 6 (Reuters): World food prices are unlikely to rise much from their four-year slump as long as high production, low oil prices and limited import demand continue, a senior economist for the United Nations food agency said on...
SINGAPORE, Feb 6 (AFP): Oil prices extended gains in Asia Friday as volatile trading continued unabated, with dealers divided on whether the beaten-down commodity has bottomed out, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for March delivery rose 90 cents...
NEW DELHI Feb 6 (agencies): It is a high-pitched electrifying three cornered electoral battle that the national capital has never witnessed before. Allegations have flown thick and fast to malign opponents, the tallest leaders of the three main contenders -...
DAMASCUS, Feb 6 (Reuters): Syrian air force strikes killed 82 people in an opposition district outside Damascus following rocket attacks by rebels that hit the government-controlled center of the capital, a monitoring group said on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for...
YANGON, Feb 6 (AFP): Myanmar Friday said political forces were manipulating education reform protests to "create unrest", amid increasing unease over rallies across the country, a claim rejected by activists. The information ministry, in a nod to the former junta-ruled...
DILI, Feb 6 (AFP): East Timor resistance hero Xanana Gusmao has submitted his resignation as prime minister, the government said Friday, after more than a decade leading the half-island nation during the fraught early years of its independence. The president...
MANILA, Feb 6 (AFP): Philippine Muslim rebels said Friday they were considering returning dozens of high-powered firearms that they seized from some of the 44 police commandos killed in a botched anti-terror operation in the south. The gesture would show...
CANBERRA, Feb 6 (AP): Australia's embattled Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday that he and his deputy will urge the ruling party to reject calls for a leadership ballot next week that could potentially oust them in a bid to...
Both TransAsia plane engines lost power before Taiwan crash TAIPEI, Feb ): One of the engines on TransAsia Airways Flight 235 went idle 37 seconds after takeoff, and the pilots may have shut off the remaining engine before attempting to...
Babul Barman | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Stocks extended their losing streak for the fourth week in a row amid volatility as investors' confidence remained shaky amid lingering political strife. The week featured five trading sessions as usual. Of them, prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-06 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Feb 5: A good number of farmers at different upazilas in Rangpur district are getting financially solvent through cultivation of Baukul, a kind of plum in recent years. According to sources the cultivation of the plum on the rise...
GAIBANDHA, Feb 5 (BSS): Health experts at a function here on Wednesday underscored the need for creating much awareness among the people about cancer and its early recovery ways through proper treatment to have a healthy nation. "Cancer treatment depends...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 5 (BSS): Betel leaf grows in different parts of the district and its adjacent areas as an important cash crop that contributes a lot to bring back fortune to many farmers. Some parts of the region are famous...
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