The head of Germany’s Bundesbank has criticised the European Central Bank's (ECB) recent cut in borrowing costs and its pledge to buy repackaged debt, saying they took pressure off governments to implement needed reforms. Jens Weidmann told Der Spiegel magazine...
BNP chairperson’s adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Sunday said India’s moral support is needed for ‘saving democracy’ in Bangladesh as a neighbour and the world’s largest democracy. Khandker Mahbub, also vice-chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council, made the remarks while inaugurating...
Refuting the European Parliament’s (EP) recent statement over the impunity of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), the elite force headquarters in Dhaka on Sunday said Rab does not want any impunity for its any member involved in crimes. Rab’s reaction came...
The Department of Environment (DoE) on Sunday fined seven dyeing and garment factories Tk 10.24 million for polluting the environment. A DoE team, led by its Dhaka headquarters director (Monitoring & Enforcement) M Alamgir inspected different factories on September 10....
The weeklong income tax fair in seven divisional cities and 23 other district towns ends on Monday. On the sixth day of the fair, 94,840 taxpayers received services across the country, while 2046 got registered as fresh taxpayers and 1456...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Sunday drew attention to the importance of boosting private sector investment to attain higher and sustainable economic growth. A five-member delegation of the development partner refreshed the bank's suggestion at a meeting with Finance...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has approved US$125.05 million as loan for seven projects. The scrutiny committee for approval of foreign loan/supplier's credit, chaired by BB governor Dr Atiur Rahman, on Sunday approved the loan at a meeting held at BB headquarters,...
Thirteen workers were injured in a fire that broke out at a paper mill factory owned by Bashundhara Group in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj district on Sunday morning. Officer-in-charge Ferdous Hossain of Gazaria Police Station said the fire originated at...
Dismissing BNP’s allegation that the government is trying to split its alliance, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Sunday said the 20-party partners are deserting it to save them from the grip of Khaleda Zia’s misguidance. “It’s a blatant lie...
Oliver Holmes and Alexandria Sage of Reuters from Baghdad/Paris | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
French jets struck a suspected Islamic State target in Iraq for the first time on last week, expanding a US-led military campaign against militants who have seized a third of the country and also control large parts of neighboring Syria....
Krista Mahr of Reuters in New Delhi | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
China became the latest nation to line up for a stake in India's civil nuclear energy drive last week, agreeing to open talks on cooperation in a sector that New Delhi sees as the solution to its chronic power problems....
Fredrik Dahl of Reuters in Vienna | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
Iran is taking further action to comply with the terms of an extended interim agreement with six world powers over its disputed atomic activities, a UN nuclear watchdog report obtained by Reuters last week showed. The findings in a monthly...
Christine Murray and Leila Abboud of Reuters in Mexico City/Paris | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
Mexico has received its first bid from a consortium to build a $10 billion state-owned mobile network, a linchpin of efforts to break the hold of Carlos Slim's America Movil on telecom services. Telecom equipment makers Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson helped...
Md Bayazid Khan | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
Ensuring each child's learning should be the first and foremost objective for primary education in Bangladesh. It might be the biggest challenge for primary teachers, officials and others concerned with primary education to ensure each and every child's learning in...
Several bombs have gone off near BNP’s main office at Dhaka’s Naya Paltan before the party along with its allies enforces a Bangladesh-wide shutdown on Monday. The blasts were heard on Sunday evening but no casualties have been reported. The...
Masum Billah | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
Why should we have proper and clear idea about Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)? It is simply because of CLT in our national English curriculum. Thousands of students and guardians are directly influenced by CLT. It was introduced in our national...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Sept 20: Electricity consumers under Jhenidah Palli Biddyut Samity (PBS) have started experiencing acute load-shedding, which is disrupting normal life seriously in the rural areas over the last fortnight. Sagor Mia (25), a commercial generator operator at Nagorbathan bazaar...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
TANGAIL, Sept 20: A three-day long tax fair has begun in Tangail today at Tangail Club in the morning, as a part of the countrywide programme to motivate the people to pay the taxes. The programme was inaugurated by Al-Haj...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Sept 20 (BSS): The newly constructed second bridge over the river Mohananda at Shaheberghat area will change the life of about 0.5 million people of seven unions of sadar upazila. The Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) constructed the...
RU Correspondent | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Sept 20: Shamim Rahman, a correspondent of daily Samokal and Ali Ramzan, correspondent of daily Jonokantho were elected president and general secretary of Rajshahi University Reporters Unity (RURU), said a press release today. The other office-bearers of the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
Pabna, Sept 20: At least two people were killed in separate road mishaps on Pabna-Chatmohar road of the district Friday night. The deceased were identified as Firoza Begum, 60, of village Khidirpur in Atghoria Upazila and Ashidur Rahman, 35 of...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-21 00:00:00
KHULNA, Sept 20: Normal work of the port including loading and unloading of export and import cargo on board was hampered as a stormy weather was prevailing from early Saturday due to a low over the Bay of Bengal. No...
PANCHAGARH, Sept 20 (UNB): A housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband for dowry in Boda upazila of the district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Mukti Rani, 25, daughter of Goynath Chandra Roy, a resident of...
SYLHET, Sept 20 (UNB): Fish and fry worth Tk 70 million were washed away by flood in recent time in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts. Sources concerned said flash flood triggered by persistent rain and onrush of water from hills have...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 20 (BSS): More irrigation efficiency has become a crying need for reduction of misusing water alongside decreasing costs of agricultural production, speakers at a participatory discussion here said today. They viewed that the existing irrigation method has increased...
RANGPUR, Sept 20 (BSS) Experts at a training course here today stressed for effectively enhancing quality fish seed production and distribution among private sector hatcheries through developing appropriate strategies and using practical approaches. Output in different fish production systems in...
GAZIPUR, Sept 20 (UNB): A man was stabbed to death and another injured by robbers during a robbery incident at Borober village in Kapashia upazila Saturday. The deceased was identified as Mafiz Uddin,55, elder brother of Rafiqul Islam of the...
Youth commits suicide in Rajshahi A young man allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Narayanpur village in Godagari upazila in Rajshahi on Friday. The deceased was identified as Dalim, 30, son of Ainuddin of the village. Akbar, in-charge of...
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