Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it halted business with a supplier in China over suspected use of child workers, the first time it has taken such a step, after criticism that it’s monitoring of labor practices at suppliers was inadequate....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had wished Lionel Messi would score a goal in the World Cup finals. In an unscheduled discussion before Monday’s Cabinet meeting, the prime minister told her colleagues she had watched the entire Argentina versus Germany match...
Airbus announced a revamp of its twin-aisle A330 passenger jet on Monday, sharpening a contest with Boeing for up to $250 billion of orders at the core of the market as the start of the Farnborough Airshow fueled a debate...
The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been successfully raised from the under-sea platform she has been resting on for the past year, salvage workers say. The wreck - the target of the one of the biggest maritime salvage...
Smoking-related lawsuits against US tobacco giants are leveling off, making it more likely that a merger between rivals Reynolds American Inc and Lorillard Inc will go through, analysts who follow the industry said. The two cigarette makers, which are in...
US planemaker Boeing said it was comfortable with its range of aircraft when asked about the impact of European rival Airbus and its high-profile announcement that it would revamp its A330 jet. ‘We are very comfortable with our product line...
A female student of Rajshahi University was killed under a train at the university's Art College railway crossing in Rajshahi city. The deceased was identified as Ishrat Arefin, 19, a 1st year student of Applied Mathematics Department, hailed from Hatemkha...
Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai is due to meet Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan to press for more action to free the more than 200 girls held by militant Islamists. The militants' leader has reiterated in a new video message that...
Novoair signed two corporate agreements with EXIM Bank and Prime Bank recently. Dr. Mohammed Haider Ali Miah, Managing Director & CEO of EXIM Bank and Mr. Mofizur Rahman, Managing Director of Novoair signed the agreement on behalf of their respective...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will brief media persons on the verdict involving Bangladesh’s maritime boundary dispute with India. Cabinet Secretary Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan mentioned it after the cabinet meet on Monday but did not say when the briefing would take...
Media in India are praising Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to declare legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar's ancestral home as a national heritage site. Yusuf Khan, who later became popular as Dilip Kumar, was born in Peshawar in now...
Chittagong Customs House illegally realises at least Tk 4.75 million from businessmen against their export and import of products every day, according to a study by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). The study reveals that businessmen have to pay additional...
Giriraj Kishore, a senior leader of the hardline Hindu organisation VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad or World Hindu Council), has died after a long illness. Kishore 94, died in Delhi on Sunday evening at the VHP headquarters, the organisation said in...
Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene will retire from Test cricket in August. Jayawardene, 37, who has scored 33 centuries in 145 Tests, will quit after the home series against Pakistan. ‘I believe this is the right time,’ said the...
England's women's cricket team have signed their first standalone sponsorship agreement. The ECB will not disclose the value of the two-year deal with Kia Motors. But it says the commercial arrangement for the England women's team is a ‘historic’ moment....
Banking giant Citigroup will pay $7bn (£4bn) to US authorities to settle an investigation into risky sub-prime mortgages. Citigroup will pay $4bn (£bn) to the Department of Justice and $2.5bn for ‘consumer relief’. Consumer relief includes investment in affordable homes...
British drug firm Shire is recommending a takeover offer from US rival AbbVie after its most recent offer of £53.20 ($91.05) per share. The board of the UK pharmaceutical company says it will be recommending the offer to shareholders. The...
Dhaka bus operators have started selling advance tickets for the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. ‘There are adequate tickets, everybody will get ticket,’ Md Zaman, an employee of a transport company said. A salesman at Shaymali Paribahan's Kalyanpur ticket counter, Md Nadim,...
Sportswear giant Adidas has signed a £750m deal to make Manchester United's kit for 10 years from next season. It comes after US rivals Nike decided to end their association at the end of the coming 2014-15 season. Nike have...
Argentine police have clashed with rioters in the capital Buenos Aires after the country's defeat to Germany in the football World Cup final. Thousands of people had earlier gathered at the city's Obelisk monument to party despite the result. However,...
JESSORE: Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) has been declared closed for an indefinite period following the killing of a student in an attack allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists on the university campus Monday, according to a...
Expressing his dissatisfaction over the internet speed and quality, ICT adviser to the Prime Minister Sajeeb Wazed Joy Monday said the government will go for providing 1mbps internet connection at union level across the country very soon, according to a...
The education ministry has asked Transparency International Bangladesh to provide it the details of its recent report that allegedly found corruption centering private universities. In a letter sent to TIB Monday the ministry said specific information was needed as it...
JOHANNESBURG: Nadine Gordimer, a South African author who won the Nobel Prize for novels that explored the cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa, has died at the age of 90, her family said Monday. Gordimer, who won the...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Tuesday slammed Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad saying that he is a glaring example of distorted politics. In a statement, he also said the history Ershad narrated in a newspaper article was...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-14 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, July 13: Due to cultivation of hybrid varieties of mangoes elsewhere in the district, both by the government and the private entrepreneurs, the fate of indigenous, superb varieties of mangoes is at a stake. In hundreds of acres of...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-14 00:00:00
PABNA, July 13: A schoolboy was hacked to death in Ratanpur village of Faridpur upazila under the district on early Sunday. Police recovered the body of the victim on Sunday afternoon. The victim Md Sajib Hossain, 12, son of Afaz...
FARIDPUR, July 13 (BSS): A silent revolution has taken place in weaving industry when a handful of weavers have successfully ventured to make 'Jamdani Muslin' sarees both for domestic consumption and also for exporting and thus Faridpur has curved out...
SUNAMGANJ, July 13 (BSS): Patient Abu Bakkar 45 and microbus driver Kader Miah died on the spot and three others were injured when a patient carrying microbus plunged in to road side ditch at Dhamudarpi village area on Sylhet-Sunamganj highway...
RANGPUR, July 13 (BSS): Speakers at an orientation course today asked the local medical practitioners (LMPs) for ensuring nutrition of the pregnant women, mothers and babies to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths in rural areas. World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) under...
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