PABNA, Nov 26 (UNB): Four warehouses burnt down in a jute mill at Odhirnagar in Bera upazila on Tuesday as a fire erupted from an oil tank blast at the factory. Fire service officials said the fire broke out as...
RAJBARI, Nov 26 (UNB): A man was killed and 10 people were injured as a truck hit a human hauler on the Dhaka-Khulna highway at Sreedam Datta Para in Goalanda upazila on Tuesday evening. The deceased was identified as Abdul...
BARISAL, Nov 26 (BSS): An old man drowned when a trawler capsized in the river Meghna at Hijla upazila of the district last night. The victim was Yusuf, 75, son of Labu Miah of Chargomra area under Aminpur Police Station...
6 Bangladeshis return thru' check post Six Bangladeshis, who were arrested by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) while they were trying to enter Indian territory through Petrapole border illegally, returned home through Benapole check post on Tuesday night. BSF members...
With all the eight nations signing a last-minute deal to create a regional electricity grid and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif shaking hands after the first-day tension, the 18th Saarc Summit concluded here on...
Bangladesh has urged China to invest various sectors including information technology, leather, readymade garments (RMG), road, railway and power in Bangladesh, said an handout in Dhaka on Thursday. The call was formally placed while a visiting four-member delegation led by...
Dr. Mizanur Rahman Shelley | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
The politico economic nexus is a universal Phenomenon. It is not confined within the developing or less developed countries. Like nature and environment it knows no political boarder. The rich and the mighty nations of today's world are as much...
Zahid Hussain and Johannes Zutt | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
About a year ago, the World Bank Group (WBG) redefined its mission, adopting two goals to measure success in promoting sustainable development and monitoring its own effectiveness as a development partner. The first goal is to end extreme poverty, by...
Syed Mahbubur Rashid | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
A few days back a drive against vehicles plying without fitness certificate was launched with massive publicity in the media, both print and electronic. But this is not a new phenomenon. Earlier such drives were launched from time to time....
Zeenat Khan | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
On October 25, while driving down the Embassy Row in NW Washington, D.C. on the car radio I was listening to president Barrack Obama's weekly address to the nation. In his speech he discussed the various measures that are going...
The 29th meeting of the governing council of ‘INFOFISH’, a platform of the Asia-Pacific countries on fish resources, will be held in the capital on December 1-4. Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque will inaugurate the meeting at the...
ABM Ahsanullah | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
The Baro-Bhuiyans were predominant and had ruled a vast land in Eastern Bengal prior to the arrival of Turkish noblemen who established the Sultanate in Bengal in the eleventh/twelfth century AD. It is believed that those Bhuiyans who had fought...
A Bangladesh expatriate was killed in a road accident in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Alauddin, 42, son of Sayedul Haque of Doulkhar village in Nangalkot upazila of Comilla, according to a news agency.
Chowdhury Shahed Akbar | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Despite its spectacular growth, Islamic banking is still widely misunderstood by many. Misconceptions about concepts and practices of Islamic banking persist in different circles. Sceptics sometimes go further to question if there is really anything called Islamic banking. Some other...
Md. Abdullah Al Helal | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Admittedly, corruption is one of the national problems in Bangladesh. Not long ago, Bangladesh was five times champion in the corruption perspection index published by the Transparency International, a Berlin-based rights organization. Although corruption is marking a decline, albeit very...
Located on the southern tip of the Malayan peninsula, the phenomenal rise of Singapore or the 'Lion City' during the 20th century has been a striking example of how a multicultural society can transform itself into one of the power-houses...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." — Warren Buffet "Reputation is important and should be handled carefully. A good reputation will precede you,...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Middle East-bound Biman flights are on sale. Crew are purchased and they are running these flights. Gold, medicines and foreign currencies stuffed in aircraft are consigned to Bangladesh en route to potential markets. Dishonest staff members and officers of different...
Mamun Rashid | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
We can consider the present business environment in Bangladesh to be more or less satisfactory. At least after the January 5 elections, we have not seen that much of political troubles. However while we say this, the potential investors are...
Nabeela Mobashwer | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
The approximation of deaths by deadly disease Ebola in West Africa now stands at a staggering toll of around 5,000. The outbreak has caused mass hysteria all around the world, for the danger it carries for human lives and livelihoods....
Dr Sinha M.A. Sayeed | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Interestingly enough, there is a new turn in politics --one that espouses the concept of sustainable democracy. Therefore, a greater attention needs to be paid to the call of sustainable democracy. It's a kind of response to the so many...
FERGUSON, Nov 26 (AFP): Protest marches sprang up across the United States on Tuesday, and police battled to stifle another night of unrest in Ferguson, ground zero of America's latest racially-charged riots. Violence erupted in the St Louis, Missouri suburb...
KATHMANDU, Nov 26 (AFP): Afghanistan's new president told the leaders of India and Pakistan he would not let his country become the battleground of a proxy war Wednesday as the enmity between South Asia's arch rivals cast a shadow over...
YANGON, Nov 26 (AFP): Aung San Suu Kyi's party Wednesday said Myanmar is expected to hold high-level political talks within days aimed at amending a controversial junta-drafted constitution that bars the opposition leader from becoming president. The summit-the second and...
HONG KONG, Nov 26 (agencies): Hong Kong police cleared activists from one of the largest protest sites in the city on Wednesday and arrested Joshua Wong and Lester Shum, two of the student leaders at the heart of the pro-democracy...
PESHAWAR, Nov 26 (agencies): Gunmen killed three Pakistani women polio workers and their driver on Wednesday, police said, in the most deadly attack on the health workers in two years. Teams in Pakistan working to immunize children against polio are...
Arab world's beloved singer Sabah dies at 87 BEIRUT, Nov 26: Lebanese singer and actress Sabah, an icon of Arab music, died Wednesday after a career that spanned over six-decades, Lebanese media said. She was 87. The diva was famous...
FE Report | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Merchant bankers said Wednesday they would not pursue any proposal that could affect the country's capital market. "The merchant bankers would not engage themselves in anything which would be detrimental to the wellbeing of the capital market," Tanjil Chowdhury, president...
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