Former president and Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad has threatened to stage street demonstration over the government’s ‘failures’. ‘We will take to the streets if necessary. We will continue to place the failure of the government before the people,’...
Advising BNP to wait until the end of the present government’s tenure, Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta on Saturday warned that any bid to create anarchy in the name of movement to topple the government would not be tolerated....
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday said their programmes would be finalised ‘very soon’ to force the government to concede to their demand for immediate holding of a fresh general election under a neutral caretaker government. “In...
Two policemen were injured as robbers hurled crude bombs at them at a railway station in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur early Saturday. The injured policemen are sub-inspector Sadequzzaman and assistant sub-inspector Manikuddin of Parbatipur Police Station. SI Saiful Islam said...
The Election Commission (EC) does not see any possibility of holding Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) elections, which have been caught in a legal tangle for last seven years, within the tenure of this government. Commission’s doubt stemmed from nonchalant approach...
Miscreants gouged out one of the eyes of a fish farm owner after brutally hacking him at Munsirhat Bazar in Morelganj upazila of Bagerhat on Saturday morning. Being chased by a gang of miscreants, Rob Sheikh, 30, son of Ashrab...
Nepalese Energy Minister Radha Kumari Gyawali will arrive in Dhaka on August 5 as both Bangladesh and Nepal are actively planning to enhance cooperation in the field of energy for mutual benefits. During her visit, the Nepalese minister is expected...
Normal import and export activities resumed on Saturday through the Hili Land Port (HLP) in Dinajpur after six-days of suspension on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, official sources said. According to sources in customs, importers, clearing and forwarding agents association (C&FAA)...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena will visit Gopalganj, Faridpur, Madaripur, Shariatpur and Rajbari for five days beginning on Sunday. The visit is a continuation of the US envoy’s pledge to visit Bangladesh’s all the 64 districts, said a US...
Bangladeshi all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan maintains the 2nd position in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test All-rounders published on Friday. Shakbi has earned 364 rating points to trail top-ranked South African Vernon Philander by only 1 point. The South...
Mahmood Ahmed | 2014-08-02 00:00:00
In Islamic banking profit is the reward of risk. There are both 'equity' and 'debt'-based financing products in use in Islamic banks. The equity-based products comprise Mudaraba and Musharaka. On the other hand, debt-based products comprise Baimurabaha, Baimuajjal, Ijarah, Baisalam,...
B K Mukhopadhyay | 2014-08-02 00:00:00
Is it not a well known fact that global hunger is not the result of insufficient food supplies but of their uneven distribution across the globe: 1.02 billion people are going hungry entirely unnecessarily? Still 70 per cent of the...
Md Mahbub Alam Prodip | 2014-08-02 00:00:00
Industrialization has opened up a new avenue for young women workers in developing countries especially in garment industries over the period of last 25 years. Predominantly, industrialization process has been forced by the multilateral donor agencies like the International Monetary...
Iftu Ahmed | 2014-08-02 00:00:00
Presidential and parliamentary forms of government are the two different forms of good government in democracy which are available around the globe. In the USA, the head of the state as well as executive branch is President as the presidential...
Tanvir Raquib | 2014-08-02 00:00:00
Life in Dhaka can be unbearable due to constant traffic jam on almost every road and street. Everyday we are becoming less productive due to the time we spend on the road, not even mentioning the money wasted on fuel...
SINGAPORE, Aug 1 (AFP): Oil prices were mixed in Asia Friday, coming under pressure following a sell-off on Wall Street and concerns about unplanned refinery shutdowns in the US midwest, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas (WTI) Intermediate for September...
CHICAGO, Aug 1 (Xinhua): Chicago agricultural commodities closed mixed yesterday with wheat and soybeans rising, corn falling. The most active corn contract for December delivery lost 4.5 cents, or 1.21 per cent, to close at 3.67 US dollars per bushel. ...
PARIS, Aug 1 (AFP): Steel titan ArcelorMittal said today it has reduced its outlook for 2014 because of a lower-than-expected iron ore price, even as it reported a return to profit in the second quarter of this year. For the...
CHICAGO, Aug 1 (Xinhua): Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell yesterday as investors speculated that an improving US economy provided backing for the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy. The most active gold...
A gun found in a car that was hit by a train at Dhaka's Malibagh level crossing on Friday belonged to Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, police say. Police officials said the damaged car is...
SEOUL, Aug 1 (Xinhua): South Korea's consumer price inflation slowed last month due to stable prices of farm goods, a government report showed today. Consumer prices gained 1.6 per cent in July from a year earlier after increasing 1.7 per...
LONDON, Aug 1 (Bloomberg): Record production of hydropower from China's Three Gorges and newer dams is displacing so much coal that rates to transport it have plunged to about record lows, roiling the shipping market. Daily earnings for Panamaxes, vessels...
Cruelty to parents is not an unheard-of phenomenon in societies where poverty is endemic. Yet, amazingly, in societies of the sub-continent, old value systems kept such treatment largely in check. But with the filial bond slackening in recent times, mostly...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-08-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh has moved one notch up in the Human Development Index (HDI) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). With an average GDP growth rates hovering around six per cent annually in the last few years, it was not expected...
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-08-02 00:00:00
So far as management of solid waste is concerned, the metropolis of Dhaka is not at all different now from what it was before. Many city-points beside busy roads overflow with myriad types of wastes, sludge, with revolting stench filling...
Controversial author Taslima Nasreen said on Saturday that the Indian government decided to grant her residential visa. She had met Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh earlier in the day and requested him that she be allowed to stay in India...
Foyez Ahamed Bhuiyan | 2014-08-02 00:00:00
A bank functions as the lifeblood of an economy where total economy of a country depends or rotates considering smooth operation of banking. Bankers sometimes have to act as financial engineer. Depending on them, a particular bank stands as a...
Most people know him after his death. His name is Euke Ching Marma. He is a freedom fighter, not an ordinary one, a freedom fighter with gallantry award. Another thing that makes him unique is that he is the only...
Israel, a single belligerent state of the world, faces a great deal of scathing criticisms as its horrible air raid on the innocent Palestinian children including stillborn babies along with women continues without an apparent break. Hamas is, without doubt,...
Hardly do we come across good news about Bangladesh in international media and we always hog the limelight for wrong reasons. That Bangladesh has moved one notch up in the Human Development Index (HDI) makes us happy. We are among...
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