Md Jamal Hossain from Denver, USA | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
In a conversation on the occasion of Nobel Prize award ceremony in 2005, Nobel Laureate in economics Thomas Schelling said the number of people who die due to road accidents and fatalities in the United States is three times as...
Khairul Islam | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The telecom regulator will urge the US-based popular social network Facebook and leading search engine Google to open 'admin panel' in Bangladesh, officials said. The officials said Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to send a proposal immediately to...
Syful Islam | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has claimed that operating the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) by appointing private operators and buying equipments from its own fund will bring more profit for the country compared to the proposals given by other...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The government has planned to evaluate performance and spot gaps in its previous financial expenditure and management reforms, officials said. "We've initiated a move to identify gaps and evaluate performance in different financial reform activities such as public expenditure, accountability...
Sonia H Moni | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The prices of local onion fell slightly in the last few days in the kitchen market after the supply of local variety increased, traders said. The supply of local variety named 'murikata' increased in the kitchen markets. The wholesale price...
Nokia Networks demonstrates LTE trial Nokia Networks demonstrated trial run of Long Term Evolution (LTE), popularly known as 4G LTE, in the country for first time. The infrastructure service provider company organised the landmark event in the capital recently, where...
Nearly 76 per cent of rickshaw-pullers in Dhaka send money to their village home through mobile banking due to its safety and cost efficiency, according to a study, reports BSS. The study titled "Use of electronic media: Remittance behavior of...
ROSTOV, (Russia), Nov 30 (UNB): Russian experts have suggested Bangladesh, Vietnam and other countries that have taken up nuclear power plant (NPP) projects to train up their own manpower to operate their plants on their own. "It's better to gather...
The Metro Rail Bill, 2014 was placed in the House on Sunday, aiming to ease traffic congestions and provide fast and improved public transportation in the capital, reports. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader moved the bill in the...
State Minister for Youth and Sports Biren Sikder has cited figures as old as those of 2010 to say only 5.0 per cent of Bangladesh's 34 million educated youths are unemployed, reports bdnews24.com. The state minister informed the Parliament of...
Md Mizanur Rahman and Md Mahfuzur Rahman have been selected president and secretary general respectively of Sonali Bank Retired Executive Forum. They were selected at the get-together organised by the Forum in the city recently, said a press release. The...
BUCHAREST, Nov 30 (AFP): Weakened by his defeat in the recent presidential election, Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta faces a new test in talks with the IMF over the 2015 budget in one of the poorest countries in Europe. A...
SHANGHAI, Nov 30 (AFP): Makers of the world's private jets are looking to promote their aircraft as business tools in China rather than luxury toys for the super-rich, as a corruption crackdown slows sales in the country. Chinese leader Xi...
DUBLIN, Nov 30 (AFP) : Ireland will repay early 9.0 billion euros ($11.22 billion) of its International Monetary Fund bailout loans by the end of the year on the back of a solid recovery, the finance ministry said Friday. The...
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) : Foreign automakers seeking a return to the potentially huge Iranian market with the lifting of international sanctions will find the business environment has changed: former joint venture partners now want to play the game by...
ATHENS, Nov 30 (AFP) : A taxi-tracking tool, a head-hunting engine and a vertical gardening company-all business startups that have paradoxically emerged from a Greek economy long in the doldrums. Faced with the worst unemployment wave in living memory, Greece's...
Taking a swipe at the prime minister (PM) for calling its chairperson Khaleda Zia a traitor, BNP Sunday claimed Sheikh Hasina has again exposed her bad taste and arrogance through her address at the Habiganj rally, reports UNB. "The prime...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The cabinet is set to approve draft of 'Bangladesh Tea Labour Welfare Fund Act 2014' today (Monday) that includes welfare of the workers and ensures their children's education, healthcare and other facilities, officials said. The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 Sunday deferred to tomorrow (Tuesday) its order over taking cognisance of the 1971 war crimes charges brought against detained Forkan Mallik, a BNP activist of Patuakhali, reports UNB. With the accused in the dock, the...
Condemned convict and Jamaat policymaker Mir Quasem Ali filed an appeal Sunday with the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 for his crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation in 1971, report...
Claiming that only the Awami League (AL) government has established education as a right, Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury said Sunday criticisms of the education system do not go with those who did not do anything for it, reports UNB. "Mistakes...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 sent Sunday detained war crimes suspects Maulana Sakhawat Hossain, a former lawmaker of Jessore-6 constituency, and advocate Shamsuddin Ahmed of Kishoreganj, to jail as police through the prosecution produced the duo before the tribunal in...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hassan Mahmood Khandker asked Sunday the senior police officers to increase use of information technology (IT) to identify criminals, reports UNB. The IGP made the call while addressing the quarterly crime review conference (July-September 2014)...
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said Sunday Bangladesh will not tolerate any form of terrorism and never allow its soil to be used against the interest of any country, particularly India, reports UNB. "It is the principled and unequivocal position...
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