Kamal Uddin Bhuiyan and Md Jahangir Alam | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
Gunter Pauli designed the Blue Economy concept. The concept of ocean economy that came out of the 2012 Rio+20 conference is popularly known as the blue economy. In Bangladesh, the issue of blue economy came into discussion following the settlement...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
Adolf Hitler, during the World War II, was not sure whether the fall of Moscow was imminent. Hitler kept looking at the time, fretted and fumed. A military adviser gave his candid opinion and told Hitler that Moscow might never...
APJ Abdul Kalam's exhortation to the country's students to gather knowledge to unleash their latent talent and potentiality is indeed a well-timed piece of advice from a luminary. He hit the right chord by asking them to be good and...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
The 2014 World Food Day was observed on October 16 recognising the worldwide phenomenon of hunger with the theme 'Family farming: Feeding the world, caring the earth'. The theme underscores the importance of household agriculture for better food security as...
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
In the thick of news in the media offering a dismal picture of Bangladeshi children, the information about a forecast on them will hearten anyone. It speaks of a survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre's Global Attitudes Project....
It's really great to listen to former Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. I have hardly gone through such an enlightening discourse in the recent past. His encouraging oration just reminds me of former US President John F. Kennedy's immortal...
The court has finally dropped charges against Limon, who was shot and maimed by some personnel of the Rapid Action Battalion. Later, the elite force filed cases against the victim, not a very uncommon scenario in our country. The victim...
The Indian Super League (ISL) has created a lot of interest among the Bangladeshi football-lovers. I hope, with the ISL, the popularity of football will increase in our country. The League has been organised like the Indian Premier Cricket League...
Abu Afsarul Haider | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
Since the end of the American civil war in 1865, the economy of the USA underwent massive industrial expansion fuelled by rapid urbanisation and huge population growth - including the immigration of nearly 30 million Europeans. In 1872, American economy...
Md Rabiul Hoque | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
Nobel Laureate economist Robert Solow pointed out quite sometime ago that the real engine of economic growth is science and technology. Economists cannot fail to note that it is science and technology that has acted as an instrument of change...
Twenty-three divorce petitions were filed a day on an average in 2013 calendar year in the capital, showing a sharp rise in the divorce rate, according to records of the two city corporations, reports UNB. The records of the two...
Women's rights activists here on Saturday demanded the withdrawal of the instruction for lowering the minimum age of marriage for girls from the draft Child Marriage Restraint Act 2014. They came up with the demand at a human chain organised...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said Saturday the number of technical students will be raised to 20 per cent from the existing 8 per cent of the country's total students by 2020, reports BSS. "We will give the highest priority...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 18 (BSS): Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is planning to set up modern and hygienic slaughterhouse in the metropolis aimed at improving its environmental condition. The existing trend of slaughtering animals here and there could be prevented through setting...
Blindness is a major health concern in the country as there are nearly 0.75 million visually impaired people and 0.12million are added to the figure every year, reports BSS. Eye NGO Forum and National Eye Care are going to organise...
Experts suggested Saturday to be proactive and to take proper care of bones from early ages to prevent bone weakening and injuries in the later stages of life, as according to a survey, three per cent population in Bangladesh have...
SYLHET, Oct 18 (UNB): Bodies of three unidentified people, including a child, were found floating in the Surma river at Moglabazar Lamakazi in the city on Friday. Police said locals first spotted the bodies of two people floating at the...
FE Report | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
Freelance female journalist Sabia Siddique (38) was buried at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Memorial Graveyard in the city Saturday. Her Namaz-e-Janaza was held at the Shekhertek road number 10 Jam-e-Masjid in Mohammadpur after Zohr prayers. Sabia was killed in a road...
DU classes resume today Classes of the Dhaka University (DU) will resume today (Saturday) after a 18-day vacation on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, Durga Puja and University Mourning Day. The vacation began on September 30. — Press Release DU confers...
GAZIPUR, Oct 18 (BSS): A group of miscreants hijacked a microbus along with its driver Pervez, 18, and helper Shuruj, 20, from Gazipur on Friday afternoon. Miscreants threw away its helper Shuruj in a unconscious condition at Ghurashal area about...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is going to start its weeklong anti-mosquito drive from today (Sunday), reports BSS. DSCC administrator Md Ibrahim is scheduled to inaugurate the drive, which will continue until October 26, through a simple ceremony in Islambagh...
Today (Sunday) is the second death anniversary of Alhaj Shafiuddin Ahmed, a leading organiser of Liberation War in Shibpur upazilla of Narsingdi district. Recitation of holy Quran and milad mahfil was held last Friday at his village Khaishakhali under Shibpur...
FE Report | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
Unhappy about a stagnating economic progress, Finance Minister AMA Muhith hopes that the country would soon get out of the 6.0 per cent growth cycle prevailing over the last several years. "We've done badly in terms of a stagnant situation...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has taken up a new and separate project for constructing a flyover at Mohipal of Feni district on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway. But the flyover concerned is already a part of the ongoing Dhaka-Chittagong 4-lane road...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
Clinical trial and bioequivalence test of medicines, pharmaco-vigilance, bioequivalence study and a new drug definition encompassing vaccines and insulin are the salient features of a recast national drug policy going to the cabinet this week. Officials said the draft review...
For at least five years, the Andaman coast of Thailand has been the scene of some horrific abuses, mainly against ethnic Rohingyas, a Muslim minority group fleeing persecution in Myanmar, also known as Burma. In 2009, the Thai Navy was...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
Relevant Bangladesh official agencies seized a record volume of gold -- more than half a tonne, believed to be destined for Indian market, during the last financial year (2013-14). The catch shows a steep rise in smuggling of the precious...
FE Report | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
State-run Power Cell has short-listed five international firms for awarding contract to build the country's first onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Matarbari in Moheshkhali Island in the Bay of Bengal, a senior official told the FE Saturday. The...
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