Observing that the Prime Minister is a curse both for the nation as well as Awami League, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Saturday said it is only Sheikh Hasina’s resignation that can help restore a healthy atmosphere in...
Diego Tardelli scored twice as Brazil beat Argentina to win the Superclasico de las Americas in Beijing. Brazil, who included Barcelona's Neymar in their side, took the lead on 28 minutes when Diego Tardelli volleyed in his first international goal,...
The very severe cyclonic storm ‘Hudhud’ (with estimated centre pressure of 968 hpa) is likely to cross the North Andhra-South Orissa coast of India by Sunday forenoon. The cyclone over the West Central Bay and adjoining East Central Bay moved...
CHITTAGONG: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced Saturday that Bangladesh Navy is going to have two submarines to its fleet by 2015. “Inshaallah, two submarines will be added to the naval force by next year,” she expressed her high hope while...
RANGPUR: Normal import and export activities resumed from Saturday through the Hili Land Port (HLP) under Hakimpur upazila in Dinajpur after long vacations since September 30, on occasion of Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja, according to a news agency. According to...
A man died in an explosion when he was reportedly making bombs at Feni Sadar Upazila. Nur Nabi, 35, died in the accidental explosion at a firewood shop in Bathania village Saturday evening, police said, according to a news agency....
Normal import and export activities resumed from Saturday through the Hili Land Port (HLP) under Hakimpur upazila in Dinajpur after long vacations on occasion of Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja. According to the sources in customs, importers, clearing and forwarding agents'...
Speakers at a discussion in the city said Saturday Gandhian nonviolence philosophy is still relevant to bring peace in the violence-ridden world. They said Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughts can help resolve various crises in the trouble-torn areas of the world as...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
This nation is fast becoming a nation of traders. Yes, this is the impression the many small and big outlets of both brand products and near nameless goods that spring up in mushroom-style in the vicinity of your and my...
Muhammad Mustafa | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
During the past few years, food adulteration has become a serious social problem in Bangladesh. Now almost all kinds of food - fruit, vegetable, fish, meat, dried fish, milk, milk-powder, sweetmeat etc are adulterated and contaminated with harmful chemicals. In...
Masum Billah | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
Bengali cinema is passing through a tough and critical time. Cinema halls in the country have been reduced to half. Releasing new cinemas has also come down to half. The lack of patronization of government, non-government, influence of sky culture,...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh population has grown from 44.1 million in 1951 to 160 million by now - 2014. The inter-census growth between 1991 and 2001 was 1.48 per cent against 2.18 per cent between 1981 and 1991. Occupying only about 0.03 per...
Md Sazedul Islam | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
Mohammad Mostaque (57), who was affected by leprosy earlier, is now fully cured and is earning livelihood for his family. Mostaque, a resident of Aziz mohalla of Mohammadpur in Dhaka city, has a grocery shop. He was cured after taking...
Mr Adul Kadir Mulla, writes AFM Mohiuddin | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
Mr Abdul Kadir Mulla, the chairman and the managing director of Thermax Group, has recently been awarded as the highest individual taxpayer in the country for FY 2012-13 and the highest taxpayer in Dhaka City Corporation for FY 2013-14. This...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
Information Technology- enabled Services (ITES) hold enormous potential in the industrial diversification efforts of Bangladesh. The Information Technology (IT) sector in Bangladesh is considered by both the public and private sectors as having high growth potential. The industry employed an...
Eight people, including a couple, were killed and seven others injured in road accidents in Jessore, Rajshahi and Sylhet on Saturday, according to a news agency.
Mohammed Norul Alam Raju | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
In Bangladesh, river bank erosion is a regular phenomenon. The country is located in the delta of some of the world's largest rivers, like the Ganges (the Padma), the Brahmaputra and the Meghna. According to the Centre for Environmental and...
Mir Mahboob Ali | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
Corruption has assumed a singular meaning - financial misappropriation and thus other inconsistencies in a character are absolutely overlooked that are defined as corruption, as well. Decay, rottenness, depravity, wickedness, perversion, loss of purity and integrity, bribery all these are...
Md. Abdur Rouf | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
The Financial Express published an article titled 'Reforming Value Added Tax regime' by Manzur Ahmed, Trade Policy Advisor to the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI), on October 01, 2014 (page-4). Mr. Ahmed is an erudite person...
The expectation has been that the organised criminality in the name of cooperatives would be curbed substantially, following the amendment to the Cooperative Societies Act in 2013. Although incidents of swindling and public harassment are not making headlines in recent...
COX’S BAZAR: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 40,000 pieces of Yaba tablet, worth about Tk 12 million, at Nazirpara in Teknaf upazila Saturday night. As a patrol team of BGB-42 in sluice gate No 2.5 area on the...
The expectation has been that the organised criminality in the name of cooperatives would be curbed substantially, following the amendment to the Cooperative Societies Act in 2013. Although incidents of swindling and public harassment are not making headlines in recent...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
Two great festivals occasioned with the gap of a couple of days. Outwardly, these festivals -one the Bangalee Hindus' most favourite and the other second most important after the Eid-ul-Fitr to the Muslims the world over - are dissimilar in...
Ridwan Quaium | 2014-10-11 00:00:00
A mass rapid transit is needed to reduce the traffic congestion in Dhaka. A sign of relief is that with financial support from JICA, Dhaka is expected to have a mass rapid transit by 2019. However, that is still a...
As we learn from the media, the incident of gold smuggling is on the rise. It is creating curiosity in the mind of the common people. Our neighbouring country India, the world's largest consumer of gold, is also seeing a...
New Market is a traditional shopping rendezvous for the city dwellers. Since more than a half century, this market caters to the needs for all essential commodities. Though with the passage of time and extension of the city itself as...
The atomic structure is believed to have a nucleus, around which are supposed to be orbiting electrons, protons, neutrons and many sub-atomic particles. This is what is based on our current levels of acceptable scientific knowledge about atomic structures in...
Islamabad, Oct 10 (AP): Fighting in Kashmir between India and Pakistan subsided Friday as Pakistan's prime minister met with advisers and military chiefs to discuss the latest spasm of violence in the disputed Himalayan region, which has killed at least...
SEOUL, Oct 10 (agencies): The two Koreas traded heavy machine-gun fire across their border Friday, as "missing" North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's failed to attend a key political event, fuelling further speculation about his physical health and political future. No...
A meeting of Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) has been convened at the official Ganobhaban residence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at 6-30 PM Sunday, according to a news agency. President of the ruling Awami League Sheikh Hasina will...
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