Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the World Breastfeeding Week-2014 at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital on Wednesday. Health Minister Mohamamd Nasim came up with the information at a press briefing at the Secretariat on Tuesday, according to a...
The acting President of BGMEA has said Left leaders are playing politics on the Tuba Group issue despite a pledge by the management for payment of unpaid salaries and allowances, according to a news agency. The statement of SM Mannan...
Tuba Group managing director Delwar Hossain was released from Dhaka central jail on bail on Tuesday night. Earlier, on July 24, a High Court bench comprising Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Huq and Justice M Nazrul Islam Talukder granted a two-month...
Heavy fighting has erupted in a suburb of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, local officials say. There are reports of civilian casualties as government forces battle to retake the city from pro-Russia separatists, the city council said,...
Georgina Prodhan of Reuters from Vienna | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Austrian law student Max Schrems appealed to a billion Facebook users around the world last week to join a class-action lawsuit against Facebook's alleged violations of its users' privacy, stepping up a years-long data-protection campaign. Schrems, a thorn in Facebook's...
Ahmed Rasheed and Raheem Salman of Reuters from Baghdad | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Islamic State fighters seized control of Iraq's biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns on Sunday after inflicting their first major defeat on Kurdish forces since sweeping across much of northern Iraq in June. Capture of the electricity-generating Mosul...
Gopal Sharma of Reuters from Kathmandu | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered Nepal $1.0 billion in concessional loans to help build power plants and roads during a visit on Sunday aimed at shoring up support in a region where China is making inroads. Both India and China...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia sat in a meeting with the new Dhaka city BNP convening committee on Tuesday night apparently to put the leaders of its crucial unit in a war mood for a fresh movement by resolving their infighting....
Martin Petty of Reuters from Hanoi | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Japan will give six navy boats to Vietnam to boost its patrols and surveillance in the South China Sea, Japan's foreign minister said last week, in the latest sign of a strengthening of alliances between states locked in maritime rows...
BEIJING, Aug 4 (AP): Rescuers dug through shattered homes Monday looking for survivors of a strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province as the death toll rose to at least 398 people, with more than 1,800 injured. About 12,000 homes...
PATNA, Aug 4 (AP): Rescue workers in eastern India urgently evacuated tens of thousands of people Monday after a deadly landslide in neighboring Nepal blocked a river that could burst its banks and submerge scores of Indian villages. Authorities in...
GAZA CITY, Aug 4 (AFP): Lying on his bed in a Gaza hospital, three-year-old Yamin now sees the world from behind burns which have disfigured him for life. The tiny boy is just one of hundreds of burn victims and...
KATHMANDU, Aug 4 (AFP): When India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled this week to Kathmandu on a historic visit, he stunned observers by bringing along a surprise guest, his Nepalese foster son. The 63-year-old prime minister is known to be...
16 troops, 'dozens' of militants dead in Lebanon clashes BEIRUT, Aug 4: Sixteen Lebanese soldiers, including two officers, and "dozens" of militants have been killed in three days of clashes in eastern Lebanon on the Syrian border, a military source...
SINGAPORE, Aug 4 (Reuters):Asian gasoil demand remained weak as there was a lack of spot buyers in the market. Major buyers like Indonesia and Saudi Arabia have largely stayed away from the spot market during the Muslim fasting month of...
SINGAPORE, Aug 4 (AFP) : Oil prices rose in Asia Monday, but analysts said gains were capped following weakened demand caused by refinery shutdowns and easing concerns about armed conflicts around the world. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for September...
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (Reuters): Russian oil output stood at 10.39 million barrels per day (bpd) in July, down from 10.55 million bpd in June, Energy Ministry data showed on Saturday. In tonnes, oil output was 43.949 million versus 43.161 million...
LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) : Chicago wheat rose to a two-week high on Monday, rising for a fourth consecutive session, as quality concerns in western Europe increased investor appetite for US wheat. Corn and soybean prices also edged higher although...
The Cabinet Purchase Committee on Tuesday approved a Tk 2.92 billion tender proposal of Dhaka Wasa (Dwasa) for increasing water supply in the city’s Mirpur area. South Korean Company Huyndai Corporation won the contract for drawing up the water by...
HONG KONG, Aug 4 (Reuters) : McDonald's Corp, which has over 2,000 restaurants in China, will restore its full menu in some Chinese cities this week, a fortnight after a food safety scandal forced the company to halt the sale...
CALGARY, Alberta, Aug 4 (Reuters) : Canexus Corp, the developer of Canada's first dedicated oil train terminal, has embraced the crude-by-rail boom with little success so far. Its shares are down 45 per cent over the past year and the...
CHUADANGA, Aug 4 (UNB): Diarrhoea has broken out alarmingly in the district as several hundred people infected with the water-borne disease have been admitted to the Sadar Hospital over the last few days. Sources at Sadar Hospital said 340 patients...
MOULVIBAZAR, Aug 4 (UNB): A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison in Giasnagar union of Sadar upazila on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Mina Rani Dash, 55, wife of Sitaram of the area. Locals said Mina took poison...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 4 (BSS): Dental unit of Rajshahi Medical College (RMC) has not yet been turned into a full fledged dental college even after construction of four storied infrastructure and procurement of necessary instruments at a cost of Taka 10...
A Correspondent | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
TANGAIL, Aug 4: Day labourers of Tangail district is facing acute crises for not getting work to maintain their livelihood. Many of them are not even able to manage a square meal a day for members of their families, as...
The bodies of two women were recovered while many remained missing after ‘Pinak 6’ launch with 350 passengers on board sank in Padma River near Mawa Ghat at Lauhajung Upazila in Munshiganj district on Monday. Acting Superintendent of Police Zakir...
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