Expatriate Bangladeshis have sent US$ 8.72 billion (872.18 crore) remittances during the first seven months of the current fiscal 2014-15, which is 8.56 per cent more than the same period of the last year. The total remittance was US$ 8.03...
SINGAPORE, Feb 2 (Reuters): Gold steadied near $1,280 an ounce on Monday, after posting its biggest monthly gain in three years, as a shaky outlook for the global economy preserved bullion's safe-haven draw. Weekend data showed China's factory sector shrinking...
SINGAPORE, Feb 2 (AFP): Oil priced fell in Asia Monday as dealers took profits from steep gains in volatile month-end trading last week, while a US refinery strike also weighed, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for March delivery...
MITHI, Pakistan, Feb 2 (Reuters): W orsening drought has led to over 80 per cent of water resources in Pakistan's southern Tharparker district becoming unfit for people to drink, a new study says. That has led to plans by the...
MELBOURNE, Feb 2 (Reuters): Shanghai copper jumped nearly three per cent on Monday, after an official report showed factory growth in China shrank for the first time in more than two years last month, fuelling hopes for increased stimulus from...
TOKYO, Feb 2 (Reuters): After December's landslide re-election, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's programme to revive the nation's economy is set to meet perhaps its stiffest challenge, the nation's sclerotic farming industry. He will soon submit legislation to reform agriculture,...
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RANGPUR, Feb 2: Around 5000 workers turned jobless as more than 300 rice mills and boilers have been closed at Mahiganj area under Rangpur city as supply of paddy to the mills remained suspended due to transport problem amid prolonged...
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NILPHAMARI, Feb 2: Due to non-availability of required volume of water in the Teesta river there created an uncertainty about targeted supply of water to the farmers of the Teesta Irrigation Project area. Water supply through the main canal, main...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 2 (BSS): Substantial and sustainable uses of organic and compost fertiliser in the farming fields can help protecting the soil nutrients from further declining trend for the sake of upholding the soil productivity, agricultural researchers and others concerned...
NETRAKONA, Feb 2 (BSS): Farmers in northern Netrokona has cultivated winter vegetables in more land areas than planned expecting to exceed the production target. Agriculture Extension Department officials of the district told BSS that they expected the farmers to cultivate...
FARIDPUR, Feb 2 (BSS): Overseas Employment and Expatriate Welfare Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain said here recently that it is not possible by any power to unseat Awami League from its present solid and consolidated position because it has a...
HABIGANJ, Feb 2 (BSS): An auto rickshaw passenger was killed in a road accident when an auto rickshaw collided head on with a pickup van at Purashundha village under Shaesthaganj upazila on Dhaka-Sylhet highway this noon. The deceased was identified...
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RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Feb 2: The election to the Rajshahi University Central Students Union (RUCSU) has become a thing of the past as it was not held for almost 25 years since 1989. RUCSU is the central democratic association of the...
GAZIPUR, Feb 2 (UNB): Police recovered the body of a garment worker from a shop at Nayanpur Bazar in Sreepur upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Abdul Kader, 35, son of Yousuf Ali from Sakua village of...
RANGPUR, Feb 2 (UNB): At least ten workers were injured when the roof of an under-construction mosque collapsed on them in Khamarpara area of the city on Sunday. Local people said the roof of the under-construction mosque collapsed on the...
BENAPOLE, Feb 2 (UNB): Police rescued four women while they were being trafficked to India illegally from Putkhali frontier here on Sunday night. The rescued victims were identified as Ankhi Khatun, 21, daughter of Abu Khan, a resident of Jinnar...
RAKUB disburses Tk 280m loan in Thakurgaon Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) disbursed Taka 280 million as different loans through its 19 branches in Thakurgaon during the last six months of the current fiscal year. Thakurgaon zonal manager S.M. Helal...
BEIJING, Feb 2 (agencies): China and India are reaffirming their ties following U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to New Delhi that underscored Beijing's complicated relationship with both countries. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday welcomed India's External Affairs Minister Sushma...
MANILA, Feb 2 (AFP): Muslim rebels who signed a ceasefire with the Philippine government must cooperate with an investigation into the killing of 44 policemen by some of their fighters, a presidential official said Monday. President Benigno Aquino's spokesman Edwin...
TOKYO, Feb 2 (Reuters): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wanted to debate the possibility of Japan's military rescuing Japanese citizens abroad, a day after Islamic State militants said they had beheaded a Japanese journalist. The militants...
BEIRUT, Feb 2, (AFP): Syrian government air strikes in an opposition-held town in the southern province of Daraa on Monday killed at least 20 civilians and wounded two dozen more, a monitoring group said. "Twenty civilians were killed and at...
COLOMBO, Feb 2 (AFP): A top US diplomat promised Monday that Washington would be a friend and partner of Colombo as she made the first visit by a senior American official since the toppling of Sri Lanka's long-time strongman. In...
CAIRO, Feb 2 (AFP): An Egyptian court on Monday confirmed death sentences against 183 men convicted of killing 13 policemen in a town near Cairo in August 2013. In December the court had issued its preliminary verdict against 188 defendants...
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