Two people were killed in a mob beating in Dhainagar area of Shibganj Upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday night. The identities of the dead could not be known. Shibganj Police Station officer-in-charge Ashiqur Rahman and witnesses said a group...
Detained war crimes accused Khan Akram Hossain of Bagerhat was interrogated by the investigation agency (IA) at a ‘safe home’ in the city after taking him into custody for ‘effective’ quizzing. According to the IA under the International Crimes Tribunals...
A bus driver was killed and two other people were injured when two buses collided at Singhajhuli Khan Bari at Chowgachha Upazila in Jessore district on Wednesday night. The dead is Tajibar Rahman Taju, 45, the driver of one of...
Prime Minister’s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury has said the Matarbari 1,200 megawatt (MW) coal-fired plant will be the most modern and efficient power plant in the region. Japan has come forward as a single country to help Bangladesh set...
Police recovered 1,000 pieces of Yaba tablet at Kamalapur Rail Station in the city on Thursday. The law enforcers also arrested a man – Selim Mia alias Shahin, 38, – for possessing the contraband tablet. Sub-inspector Arifin of the Government...
The death toll from bus-microbus collision in Chokoria Upazila in Cox’s Bazar district rose to four as another injured person died at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) early Thursday. At least 10 other people were injured in the accident that...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel recovered 13 live bombs in Udayan More area in Chapainawabganj town on Wednesday night. Major Kamruzzaman Pavel, commanding officer of Chapainawabganj RAB-5, said being tipped off, a RAB-5 team raided Udayan Cinema, an abandoned cinema...
Despite tremendous success in HSC results this year, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Thursday said Bangladesh is still far away from attaining international standards in terms of qualitative education. ‘Certainly, there has been improvement in the standard of qualitative...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday stressed diversification of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh, saying that foreign investment in the country now only concentrates on two sectors – power and communication. ‘In Bangladesh, this is a feature that our...
Israel and Gaza militants were holding their fire Thursday morning after a new truce got off to a shaky start, with night-time Palestinian rocket fire followed by Israeli air strikes. The Israeli army said that there had been no fighting...
Ukraine said it was sending on Thursday its own aid convoys to the war-torn east of the country, as wrangling continued over a mammoth column of Russian trucks rumbling towards the border. ‘Columns of trucks carrying assistance’ will leave the...
At least 34 Bangladeshis have returned home from India after serving three years’ jail term for illegal stay in that country after intrusion. Indian Immigration police handed over 34 women and a child to Benapole Check Post’s immigration police around...
Pope Francis on Thursday kicked off a five-day visit to South Korea fuelled by the Vatican's desire to expand the Church in Asia despite challenges posed by governments like atheist China. Regional tensions were underlined just minutes before the pontiff...
Asian markets were mostly higher Thursday, tracking positive cues from Wall Street as traders shrugged off a slew of soft data including a weaker-than-expected report on retail sales in the world's largest economy. Tokyo and Sydney rose 0.60 percent, while...
BEIJING, Aug 12 (Xinhua): Sinopec Engineering Group, a subsidiary of China's biggest refiner Sinopec, has been awarded a refinery contract worth US$1.33 billion by Malaysian oil firm Petronas, Sinopec announced on Tuesday. It said in a statement that it has...
NICOSIA, Aug 12 (Xinhua): International lenders warned Cyprus on Monday of risking its next tranche of assistance money if opposition parties prevent passage of a bill regulating repossession of mortgaged properties by the banks. Cyprus was bailed out by the...
BEIJING, Aug 12 (Xinhua): China will increase the wholesale price of natural gas for non-residential use by 20.5 per cent from Sept. 1 to "guide the reasonable allocation" of resources, the top economic planner announced on Tuesday. The price adjustment...
MANILA, Aug 12 (Xinhua): Philippine export earnings expanded by 21.3 per cent on year to US$5.44 billion in June on the back of higher shipments of electronic products, the local statistics agency said Tuesday. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said...
Bangladesh and China have agreed to expand mutual engagements in various economic and social fields for further improvement of the existing relations, reports UNB. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi reached the agreement at a...
FRANKFURT, Aug 12 (AFP) : Investment sentiment in Germany fell to the lowest level for nearly two years in August amid concern about the economic fallout from crises such as the tension over Russia-Ukraine, data showed on Tuesday. The widely...
NEW DELHI, Aug 12 (AFP) : India's newest airline announced Monday flights could begin as early as October, saying it was "bullish" about the future even as a rival carrier reported a big loss. The new airline, to be called...
TOKYO, Aug 12 (AFP) : Google is partnering with five Asian telecom firms to build a $300 million underwater cable across the Pacific Ocean in a bid to meet surging Internet use. The project, named FASTER, would see the 9,000-kilometre...
Dollar bounces back in Asia TOKYO, Aug 12: The dollar extended its gains in Asia on Tuesday, recovering from a sharp fall last week fuelled by Washington's announcement that it had authorised air strikes in Iraq. The dollar strengthened to...
Saleh Akram | 2014-08-13 00:00:00
Over the decades, Bangladesh's trade gap with India had been widening before stabilising at around US$4.0 to US$5.0 billion during the last couple of years. The trade gap was as high as $4.17 billion in the 2012-13 financial year as...
Syed Mahbubur Rashid | 2014-08-13 00:00:00
The ongoing controversy on the National Broadcast Policy reminds us of the adage: what we learn from history is that we do not learn anything from history. From time immemorial, autocratic rulers tried to gag the press and silence people's...
The allocation of public resources for the country's education sector does still fall short of the required level, though the government has been providing increasing amounts of budgetary fund for it over the years. Bangladesh now spends around 2.2 per...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-08-13 00:00:00
Let there be a start with a positive note on a few recent economic issues. The monetary policy stance, as recently released by the central bank, has fittingly put due emphasis on containing inflation. In fact, this is a continuation...
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