GAZA CITY: Israel Saturday approved a four-hour extension of a temporary truce in Gaza, Israeli television said, after the Palestinian death toll topped 1,000 with the retrieval of dozens of bodies. Channel 10 said the security cabinet had agreed to...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Do villagers also throw iftar parties? Knowledgeable people's reply has largely been in the negative. It is an urban and recent phenomenon. No denying that it has direct link with money. Business houses, professional or other bodies now throw iftar...
Mohammad Zafor | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Everything in this world was created by Almighty Allah with a specific size and measurement, both qualitatively and qualitatively. It is stated in the Holy Quran: "We have created everything with a specific measure and proportion." (54:49) "We have produced...
Timon Saha | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Markets of novel handicrafts have been undergoing drastic changes during the last three decades. Markets had a strong revival in the seventies. People closely watched the events taking place somewhere else in the world. The slogan in Bangladesh, "small is...
Iftu Ahmed | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Amartya Sen, the native of Bangladesh and the citizen and Nobel laureate in economics of India said: "In the eighteenth century, Adam Smith (1723-1790), the famous Scottish economist held Bengal as one of the richest heritages of the world. As...
Rabeya Ferdous | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Road traffic accident is a common accident in Bangladesh. Every day it is very common to see on our TV channels. Some people die and some are severely injured who are becoming disabled people. According to a study conducted by...
It is better late than never. The education minister has finally admitted the exorbitant cost of pursuing higher studies in private universities located in the capital. He has announced that no new private university would henceforth be allowed to be...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
A researcher should feel fortunate if s/he gets the chance of visiting a particular area more than once. It helps detect the dynamics of changes in one's own eyes rather than banking on a basket of data provided by others....
Md. Nurnobi Islam | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Moral society is a society or a group of people where the society members try to persuade other people to lead a moral and decent life. A moral society must discipline the activities of people in general. But with the...
Media on 23rd July highlighted 'poison sellers' calling themselves medicine manufacturers. They are possibly worse than Gestapo, the evil Nazis of the last world war. It is a national shame that such people killed many young children through selling their...
Two old women were stampeded to death when they went to collect Zakat in Manikganj. Reports said there was a huge crowd to collect Zakat. Such unfortunate incidents happen almost every year. The distributors should take precaution to avoid such...
The construction work of the Maghbazar-Malibag flyover is going on in full swing but its utility remains questionable. There always remains heavy traffic jam at Banglamotor junction. The traffic situation will worsen there when the flyover will be opened for...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
The government has the responsibility of providing efficient delivery of public services. Public utilities comprise all sorts of transport, power and gas, water and sanitation and all means of communication like telephone and postal services. They also cover provisions for...
K.B. Ahmed | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Asymmetric dilution of the centre of influence has inspired the BRICS to form the New Development Bank (NDB), apparently challenging Western hegemony, led by the USA. This will be a new and sustained architecture in the management of world's capital...
The first team of Pakistani climbers to scale the world's second tallest mountain, K2, has arrived at the summit. K2 lies in Pakistan, near the northern border with China. The climbers made it to the summit at 02:30 (22:30 GMT...
Anu Mahmud | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague in its award has settled the maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and India. It awarded an area of 19,467 square kilometres (sq km) to Bangladesh out of a total disputed area of...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Christopher is an elderly white American who is now enjoying his retired life after spending his checkered career as an engineer specialised in missile technology. We two have become friends. Almost every alternate afternoon we meet in a nearby mall....
Md Shahadat Hossain | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
The Jatiya Sangsad on June 29 last passed the national annual budget for the financial year 2014-15. Important features of the budget are: the total revenue income target has been set at over Tk 1.82 trillion (182,954 crore) which is...
PARIS, July 25 (agencies): Authorities said Thursday they located the wreckage of an Air Algerie flight after it crashed in northern Mali carrying 116 passengers and crew, nearly half of them French, en route from Burkina Faso to Algeria. Regional...
BEIRUT, July 25 (AFP): An offensive by the jihadist Islamic State group against Syrian government-held territory has killed at least 74 people in the past 24 hours, a monitoring group said on Friday. Buoyed by their capture of swathes of...
GENEVA, July 25 (AFP): The World Health Organization urged on Friday the creation of a humanitarian corridor in the besieged Gaza Strip to allow for the evacuation of the wounded. "WHO is calling for the creation of a humanitarian corridor...
NEW DELHI, July 25 (AFP): India summoned a top Pakistani diplomat Friday, two days after announcing resumption of foreign-secretary-level talks, to voice unhappiness over repeated delays in the trial of seven men accused in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks. "We...
GENEVA, July 25 (AFP): A total of 230,000 people have fled their homes during the spiralling armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday. UNHCR spokesman Dan McNorton told reporters that the number of people who...
Two soldiers, two policemen die in Pakistan attacks ISLAMABAD, July 25: A bomb killed at least two Pakistani soldiers in the country's northwestern tribal district where the army is carrying out a major offensive against Taliban militants, officials said.The incident...
Babul Barman Stocks closed positive for the second week straight with improved turnover, spurred by better than expected half-yearly earnings and the potentially capital-market friendly monetary policy. It was the last trading week on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and...
HONG KONG, July 25 (Reuters): China' index of leading Shanghai and Shenzhen shares posted its biggest weekly gain in over 10 months on Friday, powered by continued strength in blue chips which are seen benefiting from a coming stock exchange...
MUMBAI, July 25 (Reuters): India's broader NSE index fell on Friday after hitting a record high for a third straight day as investors took profits in blue-chips such as ICICI Bank , while IT outsourcing firms declined after Wipro's US...
ICB Asset Management Company Limited (ICB AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), disclosed the following total net asset value (NAV) of different mutual funds (MFs) at the close of business operation on July 23, 2014, said a...
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