OTTAWA, Aug 17 : Canada added 42,000 jobs in July, pushing the unemployment rate down a notch to 7.0 per cent, according to revised numbers released by the government statistical agency Friday. The figure is a big jump from the...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 17 (BSS): Discussants at a dialogue in Rajshahi said an integrated approach has become an urgent need for sustainable poverty reduction and improved livelihoods. They stressed the need for multidimensional aspect of development and implementation of income generating...
NEW DELHI, Aug 17 (AFP) : India will keep a pledge to ratify a trillion-dollar global pact on easing trade restrictions, a minister told local media Saturday, adding negotiations with fellow World Trade Organisation members had not hit a "dead...
NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters) : Flashes of illumination rather than fireworks are expected at this week's annual meeting of top central bankers and economists in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Few predict anything so momentous as the speech by Federal Reserve...
BEIJING, Aug 17 (AFP): Two HIV-positive passengers and a friend are suing a Chinese airline for refusing to let them on board, in the country's first such lawsuit, state media reported Friday. The pair planned to travel from Shenyang in...
BERLIN, Aug 17 (AFP) : Germany must increase workers' salaries to help its neighbours out of the economic slump, the European Union's employment commissioner Laszlo Andor said Saturday. The Hungarian said Berlin's big foreign trade surplus was hurting its European...
NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters): Activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP filed its second lawsuit in two days against the US government over bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, court documents show. In Friday's complaint with the...
NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters) : A US judge has appointed two lawyers who led cases against Toyota Motor Corp and a plaintiffs' attorney from Texas to lead litigation against General Motors Co related to a faulty ignition switch that...
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 17 (AFP): South Africa's decision to rescue a small lender seen as neither "too big" nor "too interconnected" to fail shows that taxpayers worldwide may have to accept that bank bailouts are here to stay. When South Africa's...
BERLIN, Aug 17 (AFP): Germany must increase workers' salaries to help its neighbours out of the economic slump, the European Union's employment commissioner Laszlo Andor said Saturday. The Hungarian said Berlin's big foreign trade surplus was hurting its European partners,...
LONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters): The Bank of England is hoping it can gently wean Britain's economy off record-low borrowing costs, but its plan for "gradual and limited" rises in interest rates might prove harder to pull off than investors expect....
TOKYO, Aug 17 (AFP): Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank's failed bid for T-Mobile marked a rare defeat for its brash billionaire founder, but few expect it to sideline a man intent on building "the world's number-one company". After years of scooping...
BELGRADE, Aug 17 (AFP): Serbia put 502 loss-making state-owned companies and media outlets on sale Friday in a dramatic bid to cut the country's rising budget deficit. The giant copper mine at Bor, one of the biggest in Europe, is...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said Sunday that father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the pioneer of non-communal Bangladesh, reports BSS. "The defeated forces of war of liberation killed Bangabandhu along with most of his...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed urged the people from all walks of life to get united to build a non-communal country with the spirit of War of Liberation in 1971, reports UNB. Mr Tofail made the call while addressing a rally...
MEHERPUR, Aug 17 (UNB): A Bangladeshi young drowned in the Mathabhanga River under Gangni Upazila Friday noon after having been chased by Indian border guards. The victim was identified as Shamim Hosain (27), son of Shahidul Islam of Bahermadi Char...
The Hindu community of the country celebrated Janmashtami, the birth of Lord Krishna, on Sunday with due festivity and religious fervor, reports UNB. Different socio-cultural and religious organisations, including Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad and Mahanagar Sarbajanin Puja Committee, observed the...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 17 (BSS): Police arrested a Jamaat leader from the Eochiya area under Satkania Upazila of the district Saturday night for his involvement in sabotage acts. The arrestee was identified as Mahmudul Hoque (35), an Imam of a local...
Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Rajshahi University (RU) unit formed a human chain Sunday protesting the serial bomb blasts by JMB on August 17, 2005 across the country, reports BSS. The explosions killed two people and...
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The government has decided to install weighbridge scales at all the ferry terminals for detecting the overloading of vehicles that use ferries so that service charges can be realised from them based on the load, officials said. Bangladesh Inland Water...
Popular singer Nazmun Munira Nancy has been brought to Dhaka after she reportedly took an overdose of sedatives, reports bdnews24.com. She was moved to the Dhaka's LabAid Specialised Hospital Sunday morning from Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. LabAid Hospital's Assistant...
LAXMIPUR, Aug 17 (UNB): Miscreants snatched a murder case accused from police after attacking them at Karpara in Ramganj upazila of the district Sunday. Being tipped off that murder accused Saiful Islam Mithu, son of Harunur Rashid of the village,...
Two people were found dead in Narayanganj and Khulna districts Sunday, reports UNB. In Narayanganj, the floating body of a Class-IV student of Joygobinda School, Adar Chowdhury (12), was recovered from the Buriganga river at Alirtek in Narayanganj city at...
Illegal border crossing as well as attempts of human trafficking through different border points with India and Myanmar are going on despite strict vigilance by the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), reports UNB. Sources at the BGB headquarters said...
Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) has selected noted educationist and economist Dr Muhammad Farashuddin for awarding the Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah Gold Medal-2013 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of education and macro-economics. The medal will be formally handed...
The 8th death anniversary of renowned poet Shamsur Rahman was observed in the city Sunday through various programmes, reports BSS. Floral wreaths were placed on the grave of the poet by members of his family, Jatiya Kabita Parishad (JKP), Bangabandhu...
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