The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is calling on Serbia to reduce the number of employees in the public administration by five per cent next year, Kori Udovicki, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration Local Self-Government, has said. ‘The...
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has proposed $65 million loan for the 100 megawatt (MW) Gulpur Hydropower Project, which was being implemented on Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (Boot) basis in Kotli district Azad Kashmir. ADB has updated on its website the investment committee of...
In order to strengthen tourism infrastructure in Himachal Pradesh (HP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a financial assistance to the state worth USD 95 million under infrastructure development investment programme for tourism (IDIPT), stated a release. In Tranche-I,...
In a strong bid to regain the GSP (generalised system of preferences), the country's apex trade body is taking a strong move at a major business forum scheduled for September 24 and 26 at New York, USA. Kazi Akram Uddin...
The Public Service Commission (PSC) on Tuesday published a circular on the 35th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations seeking applications against 1,803 posts. The circular was published on the PSC official website. Contacted, PSC Chairman Ekram Ahmed told UNB that...
Bangladesh’s famed shooter Abdullah Hel Baki made a miserable early exit from the qualifying round of the Men’s 10-meter Air Rifles in the 17th Asian Games Shooting at the Ongnyeon International Shooting Range in Incheon Tuesday, according to a news...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday trashed reports that the 20-party alliance led by her party is about to split. Addressing a big public rally in Brahmanbaria Khaleda said the alliance remained united and it would grow stronger, according to...
Urging Korean businessmen to come up with more investment, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday said Bangladesh will provide special facilities to the Korean investors. The minister said this while attending a meeting at the Korean Foundation and discussion tiled...
The United States and its Arab allies bombed Syria for the first time Tuesday, killing scores of Islamic State fighters and members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group, opening a new front against militants by joining a three-year-old civil war....
The result of Dhaka University’s ‘Kha’ unit admissions test was published on Tuesday. DU Vice-chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Afrefin Siddique formally announced the result at the central admissions office (Room 214) at the administrative building in the evening. A total...
A two-day trade show titled ‘Indian Textile Exhibition (INTEXPO), Bangladesh’ will begin in the city on September 29 in an effort to strengthen the existing value chains and symbiotic relationship between Bangladesh and India. The Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export...
US President Barack Obama, stumping for the Democrats ahead of November's congressional elections, has twice invoked Ronald Reagan's seminal campaign question: ‘are you better off than you were four years ago?’ Framing the debate like that helped Reagan twice -...
Italy on Monday revised up its gross domestic product for 2013 after a series of methodological changes and as a result the budget deficit and public debt-to-GDP ratios were lowered, national statistics institute ISTAT reported. Due to the upward revisions...
Several Chinese provinces are finding it hard to reach the GDP expectations of the central government this year in conjunction with the country's austerity measures, which has funneled spending into other sectors, reports our Chinese-language sister newspaper China Times. Jiangsu,...
Most countries have seen slower growth this side of the crisis. Italy is the only G7 economy to have contracted over the past five years. Canadian growth has largely been the same, a little above 13% over both periods. Germany...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will quiz Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan and former Housing and Public Works Minister Mirza Abbas on October 12 next in connection with a 7-acre land in the city allocated for journalists during the previous BNP...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance’s first hartal after the January-5 election failed to draw any strong public response Monday , except a few sporadic clashes between pro-hartal activists and police in the capital and elsewhere. At least 100 hartal pickets were...
The government has officially cancelled the freedom fighter (FF) certificates of four senior government officials as their forgery in obtaining those has been proved during an investigation carried out by the Anti Corruption Commission. The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs...
A three-member parliamentary subcommittee has been formed to make recommendations for enhancing the honorarium of the artistes of Bangladesh Betar and regularising the jobs of its employees employed on a temporary basis. The subcommittee was formed at a meeting of...
An Indian court has begun the retrial of the case over the murder of Bangladeshi teenaged girl Felani Khatun. The trial began at a special court in Indian Border Security Force’s (BSF) sector headquarters at Koch Bihar Monday, Kurigram 45...
The board of directors of Eastern Housing Ltd (EHL) has recommended 15 per cent cash dividend and 5 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on July 31, 2014. The annual general meeting (AGM) of the company will be...
The Awami League and BNP activists in New York have taken position outside the John F Kennedy Airport in New York ahead of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s arrival there. The flight carrying the prime minister was due in New York...
The government on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Malaysia to set up 1320 (2x660) MW coal-based power plant under joint venture between Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and a Consortium of Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and Powertek...
The Income Tax Fair 2014 ended Monday with getting the highest ever response from the taxpayers. The fair, which began simultaneously in divisional headquarters and 22 districts on September 16, concluded in a festive mode Monday as the National Board...
The income tax fair this year has fetched the state coffers Tk 16.75 billion this year, which is Tk 5.57 billion more than last year. NBR Chairman Ghulam Hussain said at the fair’s closing ceremony on Monday that this much...
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived here Monday morning amid a warm reception to attend the 69th UN General Assembly (UNGA). An Emirates flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage reached J F Kennedy (JFK) International Airport at...
BNP Monday alleged that the government is all set to re-establish one-party Baksal rule by annihilating democracy with the 16th amendment to the constitution. “The judiciary has totally gone under Awami League’s control with the 16th amendment. The party has...
Ronnie Cohen of Reuters in New York | 2014-09-22 00:00:00
In a new study, the vast majority of kidney failure patients told researchers they saw no need for a kidney transplant because they were doing fine on dialysis - but the researchers say these patients might not realize how much...
Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau of Reuters in United Nations | 2014-09-22 00:00:00
US Secretary of State John Kerry said last week that Iran had a role to play in a global coalition to tackle Islamic State militants who have seized swaths of Iraq and Syria and proclaimed a caliphate in the heart...
Fayen Wong of Reuters in Shanghai | 2014-09-22 00:00:00
Subsidies accounted for four-fifths of the profits reported by Chinese steel companies in the first half of this year, a dramatic increase in reliance on state support that illustrates starkly the industrial weakness that is an increasing drag on the...
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