KHAGRACHHARI, Dec 6: A school headmaster was gunned down and a local leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-Santu Larma faction) injured in a gun attack in Manikchhari upazila Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Chingsa Mong Chowdhury,...
Senior Awami League leader Syed Ashraful Islam’s remark describing US Assistant Secretary Nisha Desai Biswal as a ‘two-penny minister’ is ‘racist’, a BNP leader has said. What he said not only violated diplomatic norms but had clear racist undertones,” said...
All export and import operations have ground to a halt at the Benapole land port after a labourer was run over by a truck. Several hundred trucks, carrying raw materials among other goods, were stuck on either side of the...
A K Azad, chairman and MD of Ha-Meem Group of Companies, has been re-elected president of Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) for 2014-16 term. Mostafa Azad Chowdhury Babu and Shamsur Rahman have been re- elected as senior vice-president and vice-president,...
India is planning to introduce regular passenger bus services to Dhaka from Guwahati in Assam via Shillong in Meghalaya. To study and finalise the routes and start the Guwahati-Dhaka bus services, a joint technical trial run will be organised on...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Saturday announced a 30-member its preliminary squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 will take place in Australia and New Zealand in February and March. Bangladesh placed in Pool A with Afghanistan, Australia, England, Sri Lanka,...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Of the few artists who breathed art, lived in art and dreamed of art soaked in the very sustaining fluid of the soil, Qayyum Chowdhury was definitely one. The country's simple beauty and vibrancy was so exquisitely delineated in his...
Md Sazedul Islam | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Considered by many scholars to be the oldest healing science, Ayurveda is a holistic approach to health that is designed to help people live long, healthy, and well-balanced lives. The holistic practice is based on creating harmony between body, mind...
Zeenat Khan | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
At the beginning of this past summer, I finished Herman Melville's Moby Dick. I was supposed to read this American classic in 1978, for my early 19th century American literature course. I was then in Rhode Island, USA. As it...
Mohammad Anisur Rahaman | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is known as a complex developmental disability, a disorder of neural development characterised by impaired social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication, and by restricted, repetitive or stereotyped behaviour. A person with an ASD typically has...
Md Razid | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
The premier show of Meghmallar by Zahidur Rahim Anjon was held on November 18, 2014 at Star Cineplex. This film will be released commercially this month (December 2014). The film focuses on a middle class family who unlike others started...
SINGAPORE, Dec 5 (Reuters): Gold was heading for its biggest weekly gain in nine months on Friday as a modest bounce in oil prices boosted demand for the metal as an inflation-hedge, but investors were nervous ahead of a key...
JHENIDAH, Dec 5 (UNB): With Tk 520 million sugar still remaining unsold, Mobarakganj Sugar Mills has began its sugarcane crushing programme for 2014-15 season. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu inaugurated the sugarcane crushing programme on Friday morning. This season, the...
SINGAPORE, Dec 5 (AFP): Oil fell in Asian trade on Friday after major producer Saudi Arabia slashed the price of the crude it sells to Asia and the United States, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for January...
MUMBAI, Dec 5 (Reuters): Indian soymeal exports in November nearly quadrupled from a month earlier to 110,806 tonnes on higher local supplies and improved demand from Iran and France, a trade body said on Friday. A pick-up in soymeal supplies...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 5 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures ended higher on Friday, reversing most of the week's steep losses as cautious investors held back from another sell-off, and instead pinned hopes on output and stockpiles easing in December. Prices...
New Delhi, Dec 5 (AFP): Militants hurling grenades stormed an army camp Friday in Indian Kashmir and killed 11 security officials, police said, ratcheting up violence in the Muslim-majority region which is voting in state elections. Six of the attackers...
BEIJING, Dec 5 (AFP): South African President Jacob Zuma said Friday that China's growing influence in Africa would allow the continent to free itself from "colonial shackles" as he wound up a visit to Beijing. Zuma's government has denied the...
NEW YORK, Dec 5, (agencies): Thousands of protesters paralyzed streets in New York Thursday to condemn police killings of black suspects as details of a new racially tinged death emerged. It was the second night of rallies in America's largest...
BANGKOK, Dec 5 (AFP): Thailand's ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej cancelled plans to hold a public annual audience marking his 87th birthday Friday on his doctors' advice, heightening anxiety in the deeply divided kingdom over the monarch's health. The world's longest-serving...
S Africans remember Mandela through tradition and prayer PRETORIA, Dec 5: As smoke rose from the long, spiralled kudu horns in his hands, tribal chief Ron Martin raised his voice and praised the spirits of South Africa's ancestors, one year...
Babul Barman | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Driven by large cap issues, stocks turned around last week after a bearish mood that spanned for four consecutive weeks. The week featured all five trading sessions and of them, the first and last sessions saw marginal correction while mid-three...
Siddique Islam | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
From Rajshahi The central bank has asked the commercial banks to take effective measures under the anti-money laundering and anti-terror financing laws to check illegal fund transfer and associated pecuniary offences. Such strict directive came at a regional conference on...
Special Correspondent From Rajshahi | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
An environment-friendly cold storage with 300 metric tonnes capacity got off the ground today here in this northern city. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) provided Tk 1.40 million for building the cold storage from its corporate social responsibility (CSR) fund. "We'll...
NEW DELHI, Dec 05 (AFP): India's new right-wing government kicked off its troubled privatisation drive Friday, selling a five-per cent stake in the state-controlled Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) to generate revenue and plug a gaping budget deficit. The...
The foreign currency maintained its strong position throughout the week against the local currency. With the event of the central bank's intervention and increased inward remittances in the month of November, 2014, the market got eased a little bit. Bangladesh...
PARIS/LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters): European shares rallied on Friday, recouping most of the previous session's losses, helped by strong German factory orders and expectations for upbeat US jobs data due later in the day. Shares in oil and gas firms...
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