A government review committee has recommended the closure of Maggie and Liz Corporation, a private factory in Chittagong, to enable the demolition of its illegally built top floor. The committee made the suggestion after a 2-hour inspection on Thursday and...
The Ganajagaran Mancha has reacted with joy to the capital punishment awarded to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali for wartime offences. Bangladesh’s second International Crimes Tribunal gave the order on Sunday, nearly six months after the Jamaat executive council member’s...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to sit with BNP standing committee members on Wednesday night to discuss the country’s latest political situation and work out the party’s next course of action to force the government arrange snap polls under...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Sunday announced a 10-point policy incentive for the tannery industries interested to relocate their plants to the newly-established Savar Tannery Estate. The incentives were announced in line with the government’s move to provide special facilities for...
India will not allow its territory to be used for any activity that harms Bangladesh, its High Commissioner in Dhaka, Pankaj Saran, has said. His comment came after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in an interview to Kolkata-based newspaper Anandabazar...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested an alleged criminal and recovered 56 crude bombs and eight hand bombs in the city Saturday night. Sources at the Rab headquarters said the recovered bombs were supposed to be used for carrying out...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to visit the United Kingdom (UK), Italy and Nepal during the current month to attend various international and regional events. The Prime Minister, scheduled to deliver a speech at the Oxford Union, UK on...
At least 45 people including women and children were killed and as many as 70 wounded in an explosion on the Pakistani-Indian border near the Pakistani city of Lahore, a local doctor said. "We received 35 bodies including those of...
President Abdul Hamid on Sunday expressed the hope that Indo-Bangladesh relations will continue to grow to mutual benefit of the two neighbouring countries, the President said while addressing the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation...
The unrestricted use of fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100, if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, a UN-backed expert panel says. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in a stark report that most of...
The viva voce of the students who came out successful in the admissions test under ‘K’ unit of Dhaka University for session 2014-2015 will be held on November 28-30. The spoken examination will be held at the Dean Office of...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said that the Saturday’s countrywide blackout occurred mainly because of the management weakness in domestic transmission and distribution. “Our transmission and distribution is very poor, and perhaps for that reason, such a crisis happened...
A Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist was killed in a clash between two groups of youth at Halishahar in the city on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Mahmudur Rahman Manna, 19. Further details of the deceased could not...
M.G. Quibria | 2014-11-02 00:00:00
October 24 saw the roll out of a newly minted Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing to support infrastructure development in Asia. It is a timely initiative in view of the massive infrastructure requirements of Asian economies-estimated at about...
Md Tanvir Hasan | 2014-11-02 00:00:00
It has been a matter of debate that countries across the world having persistent budget deficits for a long period of time are prone to high inflation. Before coming to any conclusion, the relation between budget deficit and inflation has...
The state of affairs in the country's power and railway sectors is not that palatable, the tall claims often made by the government policymakers notwithstanding. Despite substantial increase in power generation capacity in recent years, the availability of electricity at...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-11-02 00:00:00
The SAARC (South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation) states are planning to set up an energy ring in order to connect all member countries. In fact, an earlier meeting of the SAARC energy ministers in New Delhi discussed the project...
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-11-02 00:00:00
When a gullible nation is made to believe that things macabre are the order of the day, and it becomes helpless, a monster growls somewhere. It does not need much time to discover that the fiend has lodged in our...
The students of JSC and JDC and their parents are having a tough and uncertain time due to recent political unrest and subsequent hartals. Young learners and examinees are being distracted due to frequent hartals. Hartals disrupt economic activities seriously,...
WE often read about fire incidents taking place but we do not take enough precaution to prevent such accidents from taking place. Nimtoli fire tragedy, which took away 124 valuable lives in 2010, has been fading away from our mind...
A physician received bullet wounds as miscreants stormed into his residence and shot him at Madhubagh in the city on Sunday evening. The injured physician is Abu Nasir Muhid, 37, a physician of Bangladesh Institute of Research & Rehabilitation in...
Due to our hectic urban life we get very little time for any kind of physical exercise, but in the long run our sedentary lifestyle is creating negative impact on our life and its quality, and also encouraging our children...
Manzur Ahmed | 2014-11-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh government and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) jointly organised on 28-30 October 2014 a regional meeting titled "Financing to close the Graduation Gaps of Asia Pacific LDCs". The important event took place in the wake of ...
Masum Billah | 2014-11-02 00:00:00
An astonishing piece of news published in a Bangla daily that has just stunned me when the whole vicinity of education is concerned with the sloping quality of education. All parts of the country -from northern to southern and hill...
Farhan Jumani | 2014-11-02 00:00:00
During my association with teaching, I used to meet people belonging to diverse professions. Recently, in new cohort, I asked some students about their qualification and professions to know them better in order to develop an interactive learning environment. I...
LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters): Gasoline prices in all parts of the United States are tied to Brent rather than the domestic crude oil benchmark WTI, according to a detailed study published on Thursday by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The...
GENEVA, Nov 1 (Xinhua): The European Union (EU) requested a consultation with Russia over the tariffs the latter imposed on certain agricultural and manufactured goods, said the World Trade Organis ation (WTO) Friday. According to the WTO, the EU claimed...
NEW DELHI, Nov 1 (PTI): India's edible oils regained strength and prices rose up to Rs 100 per quintal at the wholesale oils and oilseeds market during the week under review following emergence of buying by vanaspati millers and retailers...
LONDON, Nov 1 (BSS/AFP): Gold tumbled this week to a four-year low and many other commodities also faltered, as the dollar rebounded after the Federal Reserve ended its quantitative easing stimulus. The euro dived below $1.25 for the first time...
Wikileaks has blown the whistle on the purchase of a German surveillance software by a Bangladesh law-enforcing agency to monitor the country's digital traffic. This revelation has exposed the lack of privacy. Though the Constitution and Right to Information Act...
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