Shah Md Ahsan Habib | 2014-09-26 00:00:00
Offshore banking commonly indicates the banking services offered in a low tax jurisdiction. The offering institutions i.e. the offshore banks are the banks with insignificant domestic regulations that mainly deal with the non-resident lenders and borrowers. Offshore banking industry is...
Mohammad Anisur Rahaman | 2014-09-26 00:00:00
Media programmes containing violence have an immense impact on children and adolescents. Their exposure to scenes on violence in media, including televisions, movies, music and video games, poses a serious health risk to them. An extensive research indicates that media...
It is a free-for-all situation in Bangladesh as far as purchase of drugs and medicines is concerned. One can buy almost all medicines from drug stores without a prescription from a registered doctor. There is nothing called a 'prescription' or...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-09-26 00:00:00
Just a week before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) UN chief Ban Ki-moon said, while taking part in the People's Climate March attended by 310,000 people, "There is no 'Plan B' because we do not have...
Faizan Usmani | 2014-09-26 00:00:00
From 'made in space' products to underwater restaurants and hotels, new and unique business ideas are always fascinating to investors. This is because innovative business ventures not only deliver the return on invested capital, but also provide the businesspersons with...
The Tigers returned from their West Indies tour empty handed and it is not unexpected. The bad phase of Bangladesh cricket team is not ending and the way the Tigers are playing it does not seem that it will end...
The worsening flood situation in Netrokona followed by heavy rainfall during the last few days has made the lives of people there miserable. Every year we experience floods in one place or another; but this time the situation is not...
It is glad to hear the assurance from the prime minister that her government would complete the proposed Padma Bridge by 2018. We are confident the prime minister would be able to fulfil her promise as Padma Bridge has remained...
It is learnt that the prices of gas, diesel and kerosene may rise further. If done so it will hit hard the common people as with the prices of the petroleum the prices of essentials will go up. Life is...
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-09-26 00:00:00
We wish the tragic deaths that took the lives of two siblings in the capital on September 16 were not what the media had reported. The two were at vulnerable age -- the sister 19, and the brother 15. Both...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam, reviewing a book on English writing | 2014-09-26 00:00:00
Writing is an art which helps a person express oneself. It is one of the ways by which we translate our thoughts for other people. Some people are better at expressing themselves in writing than any other ways, and we...
Angus McDowall and William MaClean of Reuters in Riyadh/Dubai | 2014-09-26 00:00:00
It is more than 23 years since Arab countries last made common cause to join US-led military action, and it has taken the threat of Islamic State to persuade them that any public backlash in an already turbulent region is...
Frank Jack Daniel and David Brunnstrom of Reuters in New Delhi/Washington | 2014-09-26 00:00:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in the United States on Friday aiming to woo corporate titans and crown a burst of investment-focused diplomacy, while marking a personal victory for a man who was for years unwelcome in the country....
The BNP-led 20-Party alliance split on Thursday after National Peoples' Party (NPP) chief Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu announced formation of a new political alliance called the National Democratic Front (NDF),report agencies. Setting to rest speculations of a rift in the...
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claimed on Thursday their party-led 20-party alliance is still intact though a few of its 'opportunist' leaders quit the camp at the instigation of the government through intelligence agencies, reports UNB. Without naming the...
Publicity and Publication Affairs secretary of the ruling Awami League Dr Hasan Mahmud Thursday said the government should take stern action against any acts of violence let loose by BNP-Jamaat in the name of movement to block the development activities,...
NEW YORK, Sept 25 (UNB) : Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma has said the Commonwealth is going to undertake a new agenda for the development of education of girl children and women. Kamalesh Sharma said this when he met Prime...
SYLHET, Sept 25 (UNB):Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit went on an indefinite strike at the university on Thursday, protesting attack on BCL central committee leader Uttam Kumar Das. BCL university unit Vice-President Anjan...
KUSHTIA, Sept 25(BSS): Joint general secretary of the ruling Awami League Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said here today his party does not believe in the political game of breaking apart of political parties rather Ziaur Rahman initiated this game in Bangladesh. The...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has voiced deep concern over the government's move to amend the Anti Corruption Commission Act 2013 to empower the police to investigate money-laundering and graft cases alongside the national anti-graft body, reports UNB. In a statement...
A prosecution witness (PW) accused on Thursday Engineer A Jabbar of pulling the strings in carrying out loot and arson attack on over 150 houses in Kulupara and Nathpara villages of Mathbaria, Pirojpur by Razakar militia, an auxiliary force of...
CHANDPUR, Sept 25 (UNB): Disagreeing with those who have brand Bangladesh a poor country, US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan Mozena said here on Thursday that Bangladesh is a rich country and blessed with enormous potentials. The US diplomat said Bangladesh...
SHERPUR, Sept 25 (UNB): Ruling Awami League(AL)-backed chairman candidate Sanowar Hossain Chhanu was declared unofficially elected in Sherpur Sadar Upazila election held Thursday. Chhanu bagged 1,22,896 votes while his nearest candidate Jatiya Party(JP)-backed chairman contender Ilias Uddin polled 34,558. District...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia goes to Tangail today (Friday) as she embarks on a tour of Jamalpur to address a public rally and distribute relief materials among the recent flood-hit people in the district, reports UNB. The tour is aimed...
CHUADANGA, Sept 25 (UNB) - A local Awami League activist was injured in a gun attack at Natudah Bazar in Damurhuda Upazila on Wednesday night. The victim was identified as Aser Ali,45. Kamruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Damurhuda Model Police Station, said...
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