Our Correspondent | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Dec 27: Cultivation process of wheat including preparing the land, spreading seeds over it and so on has almost completed in Nilphamari district. This year cultivation target of different winter crops has come late in the district's DAE office....
Our Correspondent JHENIDAH, Dec 27: Government Poultry Rearing Unit, Satkhira has been remaining inactive for the last one year causing a great loss both to the govt. and small poultry farmers in and around the district. Sources concerned with the...
RANGPUR, Dec 27 (BSS): The eyewitnesses still tremble with fear while narrating the terrific Kanthalbari massacre committed by the Pakistani occupation forces on June 9 in 1971 in seven villages under Sadar upazila of Kurigram. While narrating the horrific Kanthalbari...
MANIKGANJ, Dec 27 (BSS): The cultivators of the district are expecting a bumper production of mustard in the current season due to favorable weather in the area. Good yield of the winter crop and its fair price during the last...
PESHAWAR, Dec 27 (AFP): At least 55 militants were killed in airstrikes and a gun battle with ground forces in Pakistan's troubled northwest where the military launched a major offensive this year, officials said Saturday. The army intensified its offensive...
YANGON, Dec 27 (AFP): Residents of Myanmar's commercial hub Yangon went to the polls Saturday for the first municipal elections in six decades, with voters hoping for change as the city booms, despite knowing little about the candidates or their...
LONDON, Dec 27 (AFP): The pro-independence Scottish National Party is set to dominate Scotland in the United Kingdom general election in May, according to a poll out Sunday, potentially giving it the balance of power. The ICM poll in The...
SEOUL, Dec 27 (agencies): North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of being responsible for Internet outages it experienced in recent days amid a confrontation between them over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures. North Korea's main...
PENGKALAN CHEPA, Dec 27 (AFP): Rescue teams struggled Saturday to reach inundated areas of northeast Malaysia as victims accused the government of being slow to provide assistance after the country's worst flooding in decades. Malaysians have vented their anger at...
Indonesia arrests six for attempting to join IS militants JAKARTA, Dec 27: Indonesian police Saturday arrested six people just before they were about to fly to Syria to join the Islamic State group, the latest in a growing wave of...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Farmers are increasingly turning to wheat production across the country, encouraged by better price and favourable weather, a top agriculture official has said. "Better prices for wheat in the last couple of years and lower production costs compared with boro...
NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Bloomberg): India, the world's biggest buyer of palm oil, raised import duties on crude and refined varieties in a move to protect farmers from declining oilseed prices. The tax on crude palm oil was raised to...
CHICAGO, Dec 27 (Xinhua): Chicago Board of Trade agricultural commodities closed mixed Friday, with corn, soybeans rising while wheat falling slightly. The most active corn contract for March delivery rose 7.00 cents, or 1.72 per cent, to close at 4.1475...
A museum, ‘Water Museum’, the first of its kind in Asia, will formally be inaugurated in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali district on Monday. This Water Museum will act as a call for actions to save rivers in South Asia, said...
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 27 (Bloomberg): Saudi Arabia's 2015 budget is probably assuming an oil price of $80 a barrel, and will be seen as a sign of confidence in the market, according to a former economic adviser to the country's...
NEW YORK, Dec 27 (Bloomberg): Natural gas slumped below $3 per million British thermal units in New York for the first time since 2012 on speculation that record production will overwhelm demand for the heating fuel. Futures settled at the...
Masum Billah | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Literature is an umbrella term covering a wide range of activities. However, when it is treated as a subject of study, it is seen as an activity involving and using language. Literature is an important component of a total language...
M Jalal Hussain | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
The world is moving on the fastest track with the advancement of science and Information Technology (IT). Conglomerate progress and development have taken place in the developed and developing economies. The life-styles and standard of living have changed of both...
Muhammad Quamrul Islam | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
There were outbursts of grief and anguish all over Paksitan after Taliban militants stormed into an Army-run school in the north western city of Peshawar on December 16, 2014 and killed 148 people, including 132 students, in one of the...
Though the stock market has never looked up barring occasional flare-ups since its collapse at the close of 2010, the demand for primary shares has never ebbed. But investors still make long queues before the bank counters to deposit subscription...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
A few days back, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) installed a new trading system that replaced the old Tesa-type. It was claimed that the new one is most modern and the problems that were with the old one will no...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Refugees in many parts of the world as a result of regional conflicts and wars have become a major headache for the United Nations (UN). Long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar in Bangladesh and other places, Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Karen...
Agricultural seeds are the cornerstone of food security. Bangladesh being a typical agrarian economy is thus dependent on a steady supply of seeds. But farmers of our country are regularly cheated by the seed traders. My father is a farmer...
The other day I, along with some of my friends, was having a cup of tea in a restaurant near Krishi market, at Mohammadpur. All of a sudden, we were struck by a slogan. We initially thought that it was...
Year 2015 is only a couple of days away and like everybody else, I am also waiting eagerly to welcome the new year. World Cup Cricket 2015 starts during the first quarter of the new year in Australia and New...
Mohammad Abu Bakar Siddique | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Digitalisation has ushered in a new era in banking services, especially Internet and mobile banking services. It is a great innovation in the banking sector. It has facilitated online banking and e-commerce. Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of the country,...
Sourajit Aiyer | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
For direct-investors into equities, how can the risks be reduced to some extent? Should they even look at equities in the first place? Retail investors should definitely look at equity markets to enhance their savings over the long-term, be it...
MUMBAI, Dec 27 (ET Bureau): India's stock market has lost its numero uno ranking of being the best performer globally in 2014 to neighbour China in the last lap. After superior performance to most emerging markets for most of 2014,...
The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 295,681,732.94 on the basis of cost price and Tk 251,764,487.60 on the basis of market price at the close of business operation on 24 December 2014. The face value per...
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