Deputy Minister for Environment and Forests Abdullah Al Islam Jakob has been elected Vice President of the Committees of the Parties (COP) and Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the 26th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-20 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Nov 19: The winter vegetable growers of Rangpur division are overjoyed as they are getting an excellent yield of the produce during the current season. Harvesting of winter vegetable is going on in full swing across the region and...
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday claimed that the government is implicating their senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman in ‘false’ cases to keep him away from politics. “We consider Tarique Rahman as a future leader. The government is...
GAIBANDHA, Nov 19 (BSS): A bumper production of sugarcane is expected at the eight sub-zones of Rangpur Sugar Mills Limited (RSML) as the sugarcane saplings have grown well in the fields. Around 5,000 farmers of the sub-zones have cultivated sugarcane...
A local Awami League (AL) activist was killed and 15 others were injured in a fierce clash between two groups of the party in Nandail upazila on Thursday night. The victim was identified as Abul Mansur, 55, according to a...
PANCHAGARH, Nov 19 (BSS): Comprehensive GO-NGO efforts could ensure proper selection of beneficiaries to make the social safety-net programmes more effective and successful, speakers at the concluding ceremony of a two-day training course said Tuesday. The government's comprehensive social safety-net...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with top leaders of her party-led 20-party alliance on Saturday night to work out their next course of action and finalise their decisive movement strategy. The meeting is scheduled to be held at the...
JHALAKATHI, Nov 19 (BSS): A young man, suspected to be a thief, was killed in lynch-mob attack while fleeing with stolen goods from a house at Chhoto Koibarto Khali village under Rajapur upazila early this morning. The deceased was identified...
GOPALGANJ, Nov 19 (UNB): A schoolboy was crushed under the wheels of a bus on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Mista Shikdar, 11, a class three student of Chandra Dighalaya Government...
NARSINGDI, Nov 19 (BSS): Harvesting of early variety transplanted (T) Aman has been progressing fast in all the six upazilas of the district during the current season amid much enthusiasm of the farmers. Officials of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE)...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 19 (BSS): Wide-ranging promotion and expansion of biogas plants has become an urgent need to reduce the use of chemical fertilizer in the farming fields. "We have enormous prospects of large-scale expansion of biogas plants as most of...
FARIDPUR, Nov 19 (BSS): An elaborate programme has been chalked out in connection with the observance of the ensuing victory day across the district on December 16. In a meeting held here today in the conference room of the Deputy...
CHUADANGA, Nov 19 (BSS): District Committee of Jatiya Mahila Sangstha distributed Taka 14,80,000 as loan to 101 poor women of four upazilas of the district including Chuadanga Sadar, Damurhuda and Jibannagar under its self employment programme on Tuesday. Administrator of...
3 held with firearms in Bogra Police arrested three alleged terrorists in possession of one foreign-made pistol, two magazines and two rounds of bullet from in front of Karonation Government Primary School in Bogra Tuesday night. The arrestees were identified...
Victoria Bryan of Reuters in Berlin | 2014-11-20 00:00:00
European comet lander Philae 'sniffed' organic molecules containing the carbon element that is the basis of life on Earth before its primary battery ran out and it shut down, German scientists said. They said it was not yet clear whether...
Dmitry Zhdannikov and Alex Lawler of Reuters in London | 2014-11-20 00:00:00
If Saudi Oil Minister Ali al Naimi wants to stop conspiracy theories spreading before a crucial OPEC meeting next week, it's too late. Naimi's intervention last week after a two-month silence failed to address a question energy markets want answered:...
Manoj Kumar of Reuters in New Delhi | 2014-11-20 00:00:00
India is likely to announce new measures to curb gold imports, a senior finance ministry source said, and they could include restrictions on a group of private trading firms that have been allowed to bring in the precious metal. Shipments...
FE Report | 2014-11-20 00:00:00
The prices of ginger have declined in the kitchen market thanks to a satisfactory supply, industry people said. "The wholesale price of different types of ginger reduced by Tk 5 to Tk 10 per kilogram compared to the previous week,"...
SINGAPORE, Nov 19 (AFP): Oil prices were mixed in Asia today as dealers predicted that leading producer Saudi Arabia will resist pressure from other OPEC members to cut output in order to prop up falling prices. US benchmark West Texas...
LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters): Gold held below a two-week high on Monday, falling as the dollar strengthened after data showed Japan had slipped into recession, but lower global shares kept losses in check on concerns about global growth. Spot gold...
Shah Md Ahsan Habib | 2014-11-20 00:00:00
Disparity between men and women in terms of access to basic facilities and resources is a grim reality. Women have less access than men to a range of productive resources, including education, healthcare, land, decent work, information and financial resources...
Jamaluddin Ahmed in the first of a two-part article | 2014-11-20 00:00:00
Sweden is known as the first country to have established the central bank, followed by England, France, Germany and others in North America, South America, Africa, Asia and in the Middle East. Originally, financing the war was the objective and...
South Asia's lop-sided economic development has once again been highlighted by brazen neglect to small urban centres. The 17th annual report of the Lahore-based Mahbub al Haq Human Development Centre titled 'Human Development in South Asia 2014, Urbanisation: Challenges and...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-11-20 00:00:00
There is still a debate whether or not Bangladesh has already attained self-sufficiency in food grain, especially in rice. Government statistics (as well as rhetoric) claim that Bangladesh has already attained self-sufficiency. This is, undoubtedly, a piece of good news...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-11-20 00:00:00
The fast extinction of bamboo trees from rural Bangladesh is indeed a cause of serious concern, particularly for the environmentalists. Once rural hamlets across the country used to witness luxuriant growth of bamboos. These trees used to give shade to...
A new phenomenon has lately been added to Dhaka's urban chaos. It is the blaring sirens of ambulances. With the mushrooming of private hospitals and clinics, the number of ambulances has also witnessed a sharp rise. That's natural. Ambulances are...
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