CHUADANGA, Dec 28 (BSS): The potato cultivation in Chuadanga during this current Rabi season has exceeded its target. During this season, potato has been cultivated on 1570 hectares of land in all the four upazilas of the district including Chuadanga...
MOULVIBAZAR, Dec 28: Online tax payment system was launched at Dakkhinbag Union Digital Centre under Borolekha Upazila of the district today. Project Director of Access to Information(a2i) Programme of Prime Minister's Office Kabir Bin Anwar inaugurated the tax payment system,...
RANGPUR, Dec 28 : Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Mayor and Freedom Fighter (FF) Sarfuddin Ahmmed Jhantu today stressed for strengthening cooperative movement to enhance productivity in building poverty-free Bangladesh. Mr Jhantu, also president of Rangpur Central Cooperative Bank Limited (RCCBL),...
BERLIN, Dec 28: Europe's economy is not doing as badly as some people think, Germany's central bank chief Jens Weidmann said Sunday as he gave an upbeat prediction for Germany, its biggest component. On Germany's outlook for 2015, he said:...
FE Report The realtors sold 374 flats and 412 plots worth Tk 3.97 billion and commitment for flats, plots and commercial space worth Tk 5.21 billion till the fourth day of the five-day-long REHAB winter fair 2014, REHAB general secretary...
MANILA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua): Growth of the Philippine economy, one of the fastest growing in the Asia Pacific region, will be slower this year compared to that of last year, according to the Philippine government's top economist. In an earlier...
TELOK PANGLIMA GARANG, Malaysia, Dec 28 (AFP): Toiling 12 hours a day in a Malaysian electronics factory amid broken promises on wages and working conditions, Manu dreams of returning to his poor Nepal village but is restrained by invisible shackles....
BEIJING, Dec 28 (PTI): As China's economic slowdown continued, the world's second largest economy faced the prospects of being trapped by "economic transition syndrome" of dependence on stimulus measures, an influential state-run think tank has warned. China's economy is in...
BENGHAZI, Libya, Dec 28 (AFP): More storage tanks were ablaze Today at one of Libya's main oil terminals after a rocket attack by Islamist militiamen, officials said as the UN denounced attacks on oil installations. The rocket was fired on...
KIEV, Dec 28 (AFP): Moscow promised yesterday to resume shipping coal and provide electricity to Ukraine for the first time in three years despite Kiev's failure to guarantee energy supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin's unexpected decision was...
SYDNEY, Dec 28 (Reuters): Copper futures edged higher last week after losses in the previous two days, as market participants attempted to get a feel for demand amid a brightening US economic picture and a dimming one for China, the...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures hit their highest in over a month on Friday, notching their biggest weekly gain in eight weeks as fears of floods disrupting supplies in the world's second-largest producer outweighed earlier losses....
Oliver Holmes and Omar Fahmy of Reuters in Cairo | 2014-12-29 00:00:00
Syria said on December 27 it was willing to participate in "preliminary consultations" in Moscow aimed at restarting talks next year to end its civil war but the Western-backed opposition dismissed the initiative. Two rounds of peace talks this year...
Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart of Reuters in Baghdad | 2014-12-29 00:00:00
The U.S. government is preparing to boost the number of private contractors in Iraq as part of President Barack Obama's growing effort to beat back Islamic State militants threatening the Baghdad government, a senior U.S. official said. How many contractors...
Peter Apps of Reuters in Washington | 2014-12-29 00:00:00
From financial crisis in Russia to cyber warfare with North Korea, 2014 has generated new flashpoints right into its final days, setting 2015 up to be just as turbulent. Almost all of the major confrontations, such as the battle with...
Daniel Dickson and Johan Sennero of Reuters in Stockholm | 2014-12-29 00:00:00
Sweden's three-month-old minority centre-left government announced a deal with the opposition on December 27 to sideline the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, who hold the balance of power in parliament, and avert a fresh election. Sweden's normally stable politics were thrown into...
Our Correspondent RAJSHAHI, Dec 28: Due to mixing of sugar and harmful dying agents, legendary date-molasses (Gur) of Rajshahi is posing a health threat for consumers. It is learnt, a section of dishonest traders were engaged in mixing sugar, flour,...
Our Correspondent JHENIDAH, Dec 28: A colourful rally led by Kalaroa Upazila Parishad chairman Firoj Ahmed Swapan in presence of film actor Ilias Kanchan, founder and chairman of Nirapad Sarak Chai Andolan, was held in the the upazila headquarters Friday. ...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 28 (UNB): A young housewife, who attempted to kill herself on December 22, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Papia, 20, wife of Sabuj Ali, a resident of Fakirabad...
RANGPUR, Dec 28 (BSS): The weather marked sharp improvement today following disappearance of fog amid a sunny sky in the northern districts bringing remarkable easiness to the common people, official and local sources said. The situation improved by and large...
SAVAR, Dec 28 (BSS): A youth was killed in a road accident at Ashulia Unique Bus stand on the Ashulia-Abdullahpur road here this morning. The victim was Salauddin, 27, from Kabirhat area of Companyganj upazila in Noakhali district. Police said...
RANGPUR, Dec 28 (BSS): Speakers at the concluding ceremony of five-week training course here on Saturday asked the Ansar-VDP members for achieving self-reliance through various income generation activities to accelerate uplift. The District Ansar-VDP office organised the training course for...
Our Correspondent GOPALGANJ, Dec. 28: Farmers of Gopalganj district are expecting a bumper production of winter vegetables this season due to favourable weather conditions and help from local agriculture offices. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Gopalganj has fixed a production...
GAIBANDHA, Dec 28 (BSS): A basic training for the newly recruited paralegals has been continuing at the training centre of a non government organization (NGO) at Kanchipara under Fulchhari upazila in the district since December 22. Friendship, a reputed national...
Two hemp traders convicted in Faridpur A mobile court today convicted two persons and awarded one year rigorous imprisonment to each for trading eight kilograms of hemp(Ganja) near Shariatullah bazar area in Faridpur. According to official sources, on the basis...
KABUL, Dec 28 (AFP): NATO formally ended its war in Afghanistan on Sunday, holding a low-key ceremony in Kabul after 13 years of conflict that have left the country in the grip of worsening insurgent violence. The event was arranged...
ROME, Dec 28 (agencies): Hundreds of passengers were trapped on a burning car ferry off Greece on Sunday, pleading to be rescued by a flotilla of nearby ships that battled storm conditions in open water to try to reach them....
PARIS, Dec 28 (AFP): Heavy snowfall in the French Alps left some 15,000 drivers stranded overnight into Sunday, forcing many to pass the night in their cars and prompting officials to open emergency shelters. The snow and ice hit as...
COLOMBO, Dec 28 (AFP): Sri Lanka's main Muslim party Sunday quit the government and pledged support to the opposition in a move seen as the biggest setback yet to President Mahinda Rajapakse's re-election bid. The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader...
ZAGREB, Dec 28 (AFP): Croatians cast ballots on Sunday to elect a president under the cloud of a deep economic crisis, with incumbent Ivo Josipovic seen as the frontrunner as he sought a second term leading the EU's newest member...
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