The New Zealand economy has come off recent quarterly highs but is still growing faster than most economists expected. Gross domestic product data released this morning shows a 0.7% rise in GDP for the quarter and a 3.5% rise for...
China looks forward to sign a BCIM framework agreement latest by early next year to give 'formal institutional shape' to its dream economic corridor. Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka Qu Guangzhou on Saturday sought ‘all-out efforts’ of...
A young man allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Narayanpur village in Godagari Upazila in Rajshahi district on Friday. The dead is Dalim, 30, son of Ainuddin of the village. Police said Dalim took poison in his room following...
Section 144 was imposed in and around the Public Library in Rangpur city on Saturday as two groups of Jatiya Party (JP) called their meetings at the same place and time on the day. The newly-formed district and city unit...
A man jumped over the White House fence and made it to the front doors of the executive mansion before being apprehended on Friday, sparking an evacuation within the complex shortly after President Barack Obama departed for the weekend. Omar...
The BNP has claimed democracy in Bangladesh is in danger and that there is no alternative to a ‘unified anti-government agitation’ to restore it. Party’s acting Secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday accused the government of ‘torturing the...
Egypt’s labour laws and industrial policies discourage employment by raising the costs of labour and artificially reducing the price of non-labour inputs and directly encouraging the production of non labour-intensive products by tariffs and other policies, a recent World Bank...
The Myanmar Union Parliament approved 100 million US dollars loans from the World Bank for the project implemented by the Ministry of Transport for effective water utilisation in the country on Friday, parliament sources confirmed Saturday. The parliament also approved...
The World Bank is ready to assist Bulgaria in reforming the Energy Sfector. The Bank will support the government in developing a comprehensive systematic approach to balance the energy system and will advise the Ministry of Environment and Waters and...
Bangladesh and India on Saturday reiterated their commitment to finalisation of an interim agreement for sharing the waters of the Teesta and Feni rivers. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj reached the decision at the...
Garment Sramik Sanghati Federation on Saturday demanded that the wages, unpaid dues and festival allowances of readymade garment (RMG) workers are paid by September 25. The demand came at a human chain formed by the group in front of the...
Five fishermen went missing as a trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal amid storm near Dhalchar union in Charfashion upazila of Bhola district on Saturday morning, according to a news agency.
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Saturday called a daylong countrywide hartal for Monday protesting the constitutional amendment empowering parliament to remove Supreme Court judges. The BNP alliance’s shutdown will begin at 6am on Monday, right after Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami’s 24-hour lockdown...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka on Sunday for New York to attend the 69th UN General Assembly (UNGA) which Bangladesh considers an opportunity to embolden its image at global stage. An Emirates flight carrying the Prime Minister and her...
Charge d’ Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka QU Guangzhou on Saturday said Chinese Economic and Industrial Zone (CEIZ) in Bangladesh, once established, will attract huge Chinese investment opening up a new vista in bilateral cooperation and regional collaboration....
Green activists in Dhaka on Saturday demanded that Tk 25.29 billion be realised from the owners of Hazaribagh tanneries as compensation for polluting the Buriganga River, the lifeline of the city. They came up with the demand at a press...
The second joint study group meeting of the Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC) will be held on November 12-13 in the beach town of Cox’s Bazar, said Myanmar Ambassador in Dhaka U Myo Myint Than on Saturday....
New Zealand-based mobile handset company Okapia on Saturday launched its smart and feature phone handsets in Chittagong. The complete range of Okapia smart and feature phones will now be available in 31 outlets in 11 markets around Chittagong city, said...
Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur (KL) are finally set to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for setting up a 1320-MW coal-fired power plant in joint venture on Monday. As per the proposal, a consortium of Malaysian state-owned Tenega Nasional Berhad...
State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid on Saturday said the government expects US$ 10 billion investment in power sector over the next five years, as many foreign companies, including some from India, China and Singapore, want to invest in the...
Mohammad Zafor | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
The word 'diplomacy' comes from the ancient Greek word 'Diploma' denoting a folded document used for identification or conferring a favour. Eventually, the connection with documents disappeared. Edmund Burke of France first used the word in written English in 1796...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
The scene could well fit into Spanish artist Francisco Goy'a late frescoes known as black paintings detailing sinister and horrifying scenes that evoke dark and at the same time painful emotions. But this was no painting. It was stark reality...
Sonia Farjana | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
Her eyes were brimming with enthusiasm when she illustrated her success tale to me. Rahima Begum, an inhabitant of Char Bajetelkupi under Fulsori Upazila of Gaibandha, informed me that as a result of her raised plinth and livelihood options like...
Parvez Babul | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
IF you witness physical disfiguring in your skin sores, lumps, or bumps that do not go away after several weeks or months, the skin sores are pale-coloured; then consult a doctor soon and get treatment of the disease; because it...
The admission test for C unit under the Arts and Humanities faculty of Jahangirnagar University (JU) for first year honours courses under academic session 2014-2015 will be held on September 27 instead of September 22. The admission date was shifted...
Atiur Rahman | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
The financial sector in Bangladesh has grown at an unprecedented pace over the last half a decade or so. The liquidity in June 2011 was Taka 976.90 billion (97,690 crore) which jumped to Taka 2146.76 billion (2,14,676 crore) in June...
On the fifth day of the income tax fair, on Saturday Taka 1.65 billion was collected as income tax from the tax payers. A total of 1,02,954 tax payers were given services on the 5th day while 1,463 people registered...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the ruling Awami League (AL) is her government’s main strength. “Our party is the main strength and so we have to organise the party so it gets stronger,” she told the joint meeting...
Anu Mahmud | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
The recent visit Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Dhaka has raised a new hope to further strengthen the traditionally deep-rooted bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Japan. The visit has offered a big opportunity to Bangladesh to reach a higher economic...
Wasi Ahmed | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
The report released recently by the Planning Commission on the progress of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reflects that although progress on a number of key goals is on the right track, that of others is either considered difficult...
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