TANGAIL: Throwing a challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Krishak Sramik Janata League president Kader Siddiqui Saturday said she cannot remain in power for even a month if he is arrested. “Arrest me right now if you have the courage....
Syed Mahmud Hasan (Tanim) | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
Technology in the banks is presently catching up with a high level of development around the world. Recent economic turmoil and increasing market complexity has placed unprecedented pressure on financial institutions. The demand for a digital lifestyle and the technological...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Western sanctions against his country could backfire. Speaking in an interview with German ARD television broadcast on Saturday as he was attending the Group of 20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, Putin said that...
Information Minister and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JASOD) President Hasanul Haq Inu on Saturday said his party is with the Grand Alliance government and will stay with it in future to eliminate militancy from the country. Inu said this while addressing...
Nushrat Rahman Chowdhury | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
Tara Banu felt shy speaking about her age. When asked again, she ended up saying she was 20. She lives with her husband Gora Dhali in Koyra Sadar of Khulna. Like any other homemaker, she still cooks for her husband...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
It is not uncommon to feel that the newspapers one receives on the tea table are thicker and heavier than usual. Sure enough they bring out supplements and issues on different occasions like the anniversary issues. But the particularly pregnant...
Muhammad Munir Chowdhury | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh turns 43 years with its sinking like Titanic into an environmental catastrophe. The growing incidents of environmental disasters over the years indicate how dire and disastrous the situation is which was handled by me in two years of enforcement...
Md Bayazid Khan | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
From the very beginning of emerging as an independent country in the world, the government of Bangladesh tried to provide free services to the nation in health and education sectors. No other country, even a developed one in the world...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 14 (BSS): Foreign investment towards agriculture and its processing sector in Rajshahi has become an urgent need for making the sector more value added and vibrant, speakers at a discussion here have said. They expressed the view that...
RANGPUR, Nov 14 (BSS): Project Scientist (Country Manager) of STRASA-IRRI Project in Bangladesh Dr M A Bari has called upon the framers for expanded cultivation of flood tolerant rice to increase rice production under adverse climate. He was addressing a...
WARSAW, Nov. 14 (BSS/Xinhua): Poland's food trade has grown and been on the track to reach last year's level despite the Russian food import ban, Marek Sawicki, Polish Minister of Agriculture, said yesterday. In the first three quarters of this...
SINGAPORE, Nov 14 (AFP): Oil prices bounced back in Asia today after diving to fresh lows in the previous session on expectations that OPEC is unlikely to cut production levels to counter a global supply glut. US benchmark West Texas...
Independent MP from Feni-3 constituency Rahim Ullah was physically assaulted allegedly by Jubo League men at the local Circuit House in Feni on Saturday evening. Rahim Ullah said several crude bombs were blasted outside the Daganbhuiyan Upazila Health Complex when...
YANGON, Nov 14 (agencies): US President Barack Obama urged Myanmar Friday to hold "free, fair and inclusive" elections as he threw his weight behind a bid by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to change a constitution that bars her...
QUEENSLAND, Nov 14 (agencies): World leaders are arriving in Australia for this weekend's G20 summit in the Queensland city of Brisbane. The two-day summit, attended by the US, Chinese and Russian leaders among others, will focus on promoting growth. Australian...
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14 (AP): Afghanistan's new president, Ashraf Ghani, arrived Friday in Pakistan for a two-day visit aimed at improving ties between the two neighbors often encumbered by mutual suspicion and accusations. State-run Pakistan Television said national security adviser Sartaj...
MOSUL, Nov 14 (BBC): Islamic State has released an audiotape it says was recorded by its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, days after reports that he had been killed or injured.In the recording, released via social media, the speaker says IS...
LONDON, Nov14 (BBC): Scientists working on Philae comet lander say it is time to take more risks with the probe, amid fears its battery might die in hours. There is an expectation that the robot may be entering its last...
Five-year-old girl killed in east Ukraine shelling: Kiev KIEV, Nov 14: A five-year old girl was killed Friday by shelling in war-torn east Ukraine and her mother seriously wounded, Ukrainian officials said. A military spokesman in Kiev and local officials...
Abir Abbas Chowdhury | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
Human trafficking is trading on human beings through force, fraud or deception with the aim of exploiting them. The major challenge is to find out the criminals who exploit desperate people and to protect and assist victims of trafficking. Trafficking...
Amiya Kumar Bagchi concluding his three-part article | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
RELATIONSHIP BANKING AND ETHNICITY IN COLONIAL INDIA: In colonial India, there was widespread prevalence of relationship banking. Kinship networks provided intricate webs of trust. Some of the Indian bankers had branches or agencies spread all across India - from Peshawar...
Last Sunday's two expositions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) --one at Chittagong and the other at Rangpur -- have brought the importance of increased participation of women in the country's business enterprises into a sharp focus. The fairs put...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
It all started with Amartya Sen's seminal work on farm size and productivity possibly in the 1960s in the Indian context. It sparked debates relating to efficiency of small versus large farms. He observed an inverse relationship between farm size...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
What's the distance between a Union Parishad (UP) and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) under which the former operates? This scribe's two-hour search to get the exact figure of the Ups on the website of the...
Cleanliness is next to godliness. But as we step out of our house we forget it. We do not wear shoes in our house as we want it to keep clean and dust-free. We do not litter in our house...
There is a huge demand for physicians in Bangladesh to provide medical care to ailing people in the country. Besides, for earning foreign currency, the country needs skilled professionals who can undertake overseas employment. Creating physician will reduce employment problem...
We cannot ignore eve-teasers and stalkers anymore as it has assumed ominous proportions. Recently a young man died in the capital when he protested teasing and harassment of his sister by a group of ruffians. Due to regular teasing and...
M. S. Siddiqui | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
The US authorities became concerned over tax avoidance by its nationals after a scandal in 2010 involving a Swiss bank. Following it, a law titled the 'Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)' was passed. The law requires most foreign banks...
Dhiman Chowdhury | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
Nowadays many teachers in many universities around the world take back question papers at the end of any examination. The Business Faculty of Dhaka University also did not allow for a decade the admission seekers to take question papers with...
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