M Ashraf Al Haq | 2015-01-31 00:00:00
In an Islamic framework, and also in the entire Muslim history, zakat played a very important and decisive role in shaping the economic system, as zakat is rightly placed in terms of significance and fulfilment, just very next to obligatory...
Muhammad Quamrul Islam | 2015-01-31 00:00:00
A veteran Bhashani follower, Momtaz Chowdhury, invited me to attend as guest speaker in the discussion meeting to observe the 46th martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Asad at conference lounge of National Press Club on January 20, 2015, which I accepted....
SHIKARPUR, Jan 30 (agencies): At least 40 people were killed and 55 others were injured in an explosion inside a central imambargah (mosque affiliated with Shia Muslims) in Sindh province's Shikarpur district on Friday. The imambargah is located in Shikarpur's...
RIYADH, Jan 30 (AFP): Saudi Arabia's new King Salman has tightened his hold on power, firing two sons of his predecessor and replacing the heads of intelligence and other key agencies in a sweeping shakeup. The appointments, which analysts said...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 30 (agencies): A woman who says an Uber driver raped her in New Dehli, India, Thursday accused the company in a lawsuit filed in U.S. court of failing to properly investigate the alleged assailant's background. The 26-year-old...
CAIRO, Jan 30 (AFP): Egypt's army clashed with jihadists in Sinai Friday, leaving two children dead as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi flew home to deal with a wave of militant attacks that killed at least 30 people. Health officials said...
KIEV, Jan 30 (AFP):- Twenty-four people, including 19 civilians, were killed in the past 24 hours in clashes between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine, officials said Friday. Pro-Kiev officials in the separatist region of Donetsk said dozens...
BANGKOK, Jan 30 (AFP): A prominent leader of the opposition Red Shirt movement and a former minister Friday became the latest critics of Thailand's junta forced to report to barracks for "attitude adjustment" as the military ramps up its campaign...
They act like terrorists, they regularly kill civilians like terrorists, but the White House does not consider the Afghan Taliban to be a terrorist group, reports BBC. "They do carry out tactics that are akin to terrorism. They do pursue...
Zimbabwe's Mugabe named new African Union chairman ADDIS ABABA, Jan 30: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe took over the post of African Union chairman on Friday, replacing Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Mugabe, Africa's oldest president aged 90, shook hands...
Yasir Wardad | 2015-01-31 00:00:00
Aus production has remained static at 2.32 million tonnes in the current financial year (FY), 2014-15, compared to that of last FY, latest data of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) revealed. Acreage of both Aus and Aman crops witnessed...
COLOMBO, Jan. 30 (Xinhua): The European Commission has offered Sri Lanka assistance to meet the regulatory requirements that would enable an early lifting of ban on fish exports from Sri Lanka to the EU, the Sri Lankan External Affairs Ministry...
CHUADANGA, Jan 30 (BSS): Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and farmers are expecting a bumper production of potato in four upazilas of the district during the current season. Department of Agriculture Extension office sources said they fixed a target to...
SINGAPORE, Jan 30 (AFP): Crude prices were down in Asia Friday, after the US Senate approved a bill to build an oil pipeline from Canada to refineries in the US Gulf Coast, adding to concerns over a supply glut. US...
SINGAPORE, Jan 30 (Reuters): Gold edged up on Friday, after falling more than 2 per cent to a two-week low overnight on concerns over a looming increase in U.S. interest rates, but prices were still on track for their biggest...
Babul Barman | 2015-01-31 00:00:00
Stocks extended their losing streak for the third consecutive week that ended Thursday as political uncertainty dampened investors' confidence. The week featured five trading sessions as usual. Of them, four sessions ended lower while one session saw marginal gain. Week-on-week,...
HONG KONG, Jan 30 (AFP): Asian stock markets were mixed Friday, with Tokyo's main index rising as traders took heart from news employment hit its lowest level since 1997, despite a slowdown in inflation and weak consumer spending. Tokyo's gains...
MUMBAI, Jan 30 (Business Standard): Markets closed lower on Friday with Nifty breaking a ten-day winning streak as Bank of Baroda and ICICI Bank December 2014 results disappointed investors. The 30-share Sensex ended down by 499 points at 29,183 and...
LONDON, Jan 30 (AFP): Shares in energy companies fell Thursday after they announced falling profits on tumbling oil prices, although European markets were broadly steady. London's FTSE 100 index, home to energy majors Royal Dutch Shell and BP, slid 0.22...
The local currency maintained stable tone last week and was traded around 77.80 levels. Increased inflows of foreign currency eased the market. Market may see the same tone next week. The average daily inter-bank USD/BDT transaction volume was about USD...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-01-31 00:00:00
Tourism sector in the violence-torn country is bleeding terribly. Like all other national sectors, it too has for some time been counting staggering losses. Newspaper photographs and TV channel footage of deserted front desks at different hotels and motels at...
K. B. Ahmed | 2015-01-31 00:00:00
Like many of my generation, especially being a citizen of a country like Bangladesh, a feeling of internal awakening stirs up in the mind at some of our unexpected achievements as well as dismay at the audacious claims to such...
The manpower export is the single largest source, in net terms, of the country's foreign exchange earnings. Its value addition is 100 per cent and it has been providing overseas job opportunities to the millions of otherwise unemployed people. The...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-01-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh has achieved self-sufficiency in rice production and has already exported 25,000 metric tonnes to Sri Lanka. Now a move is under way to export rice to food-deficit north-eastern states of India. This is a welcome development. But it does...
Fahmida Hashem | 2015-01-31 00:00:00
Attaining and maintaining a healthy weight is important to our overall health. It can help us prevent and control many diseases and conditions. If one is underweight or overweight, one is at a higher risk of developing serious health problems,...
The Bangladesh national cricket team has left the country to participate in the World Cup (WC) cricket. It will get three weeks to get acclimatised to the conditions there. The Tigers will play two warm-up matches with Pakistan and Ireland...
Drug addiction has assumed ominous proportions in our society, particularly among the young people. We must fight to drive away this menace and save our young generation from its deadly effects. Public and private universities are not immune from this...
In an advertisement an importer of a foreign brand of tube lights claimed that their brand of imported lights consume far less power and give much better illumination. However the price of those imported tubes is four times more than...
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