GAZA, July 20 (Xinhua) : For 14 days, stores, factories and businesses totally suspended, while Gaza's economy was badly hurt as Israel's ever escalating large-scale offensive on the coastal enclave continues with aerial bombardment and ground incursion that has led...
Dismissing the rights group Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) demand to disband the elite force Rab, Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Monday said it is the internal matter of Bangladesh. “It’s our internal matter. We won’t take any decision based...
JUNEAU, Alaska, July 20 (AP): The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed restrictions Friday that would essentially block development of a planned massive gold-and-copper mine near the headwaters of a world premier salmon fishery in Alaska. The announcement came as the...
LIMA, Peru, July 20 (AP): Dozens of international groups, the United Nations, and even Peru's own citizen ombudsman are objecting to a new law that weakens environmental protections in the Andean nation even as it prepares to host international climate-control...
ZURICH, July 19 (Reuters) : Roche plans to steer clear of the wave of big takeovers sweeping through the healthcare industry and focus instead on small acquisitions and partnerships, the Swiss drugmaker's chief executive said in an interview published on...
CHICAGO, July 20 (AP) : Grain futures were lower Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept delivery was 18.50 cents lower at $5.3225 a bushel; Sept corn was 8.25 cents lower at 3.7125 a bushel; Dec oats...
GAZA CITY, July 20 (agencies): They walked in their thousands, barefoot and in their pyjamas, streaming out of the eastern Gaza district of Shejaiya after a night of non-stop Israeli bombing. They described hours of terror, as tank shells slammed...
BAGHDAD, July 20 (AP): The Islamic State on Sunday claimed responsibility for deadly Baghdad bombings, as the Christians they drove out of Mosul grieved for their lost homes and uncertain future in Iraq. The flight of the centuries-old Christian community...
ISLAMABAD, July 20 (AFP): Pakistani officials on Sunday accused Indian troops of killing a civilian and wounding four others in "unprovoked firing" across the border in its eastern province of Punjab. India and Pakistan often accuse each other of violating...
YANGON, July 20 (AFP): Myanmar's latest religious clashes began after a Buddhist woman was paid to make false rape claims against two Muslim brothers, state media reported Sunday. Two men-a Buddhist and a Muslim-died in riots in the country's second...
GRABOVE, July 20 (agencies): Scores of bodies recovered at the crash site of Malaysian plane MH17 in Ukraine have been removed, an AFP reporter on the scene said on Sunday. Pro-Russian rebels who had been guarding the main impact site...
Setting a Tk 156-billion disbursement target, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Monday announced the agriculture-loan policy and programmes for fiscal 2014-15, up 6.54 per cent than last year's. Announcing the new agri-loan policy, Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman said...
JAKARTA, July 20 (AFP) - Jakarta governor Joko Widodo is expected to be declared the winner of Indonesia's disputed presidential election this week but his rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, is set to mount a legal challenge that could prolong the...
Iran MP welcomes nuclear talks extension TEHRAN, July 20: An influential Iranian MP has welcomed the country's four-month extension of nuclear negotiations with world powers, saying it signalled mutual willingness to reach a comprehensive agreement. The remarks by Aladin Borujerdi,...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-07-21 00:00:00
It has taken forty years. What started in 1974 through the initiative of the then Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (who recognised for the first time the importance of maritime areas being able to provide us with additional resources)...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2014-07-21 00:00:00
Sceptics wonder whether the BRICS has enough in common to build a strong alliance. At the latest summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries launched a slew of initiatives, including two new international financial...
It surely is sad to see the baggage of hostilities the Israelis and the Palestinians have been carrying in the new millennium. The hostilities break out from time to time in bloody confrontation like the latest one in which civilian...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-07-21 00:00:00
Very often one particular instance of a project involving the excavation and filling up of a pond is cited to show the high level of corruption in the implementation of projects in rural areas under the government's Test Relief (TR)...
Neil Ray | 2014-07-21 00:00:00
As if the mysterious disappearance of Flight 370 of the Malaysia Airlines with 239 passengers was not enough, another of its Boeing 777 flights MH 17 has been shot down over Russian rebel-held Ukraine! There is no reason to think...
Any SSC passed student who has minimum target to complete HSC has a long cherished desire to have admission to a government college. They do it with quality education in mind. Of course it lessens the expenditure as well. But...
Under Secretary General and Head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) of the United Nations Herv Ladsous arrives in Dhaka on Tuesday on a three-day official visit. During his visit, Ladsous is expected to call on President Abdul Hamid,...
The smuggling of gold into Bangladesh has increased and almost everyday the media carry news items of gold haul in different airports of the country. Needless to say, those caught are far fewer than the successful attempts of the smugglers....
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched a criminal investigation into allegations of price rigging in the £3tn-a-day foreign exchange market. The probe will look into allegations of "fraudulent conduct", the director of the SFO said in a statement. Around...
Most Popular Bangladeshi writer Humayun Ahmed left this mortal world two year back but the readers of Humayun still feel his presence through his mesmerising writing. The works of Humaun Ahmed has a magical pull. Once a reader starts reading...
Syed Mahbubur Rashid | 2014-07-21 00:00:00
State-of-the-art corporate law is as important as developed infrastructure for attracting investors, domestic as well as foreign. However, mere codification of law is not enough unless good governance exists. That again depends on the political goodwill. Company affair is now...
Matt Siegel of Reuters in Sydney | 2014-07-21 00:00:00
Eleventh hour negotiations to win Indian approval for a breakthrough global trade pact may not have succeeded in the end despite initial signs of progress, sources involved in the discussions said on Saturday. India is the most prevalent among a...
Md Shahadat Hossain | 2014-07-21 00:00:00
The proposed Financial Reporting Act (FRA) is getting wide media coverage. This act has been approved in principle by the cabinet. The purpose of this proposed act is to create an independent and impartial body that can regulate reporting on...
Bangladeshi world famed all rounder Shakib Al Hasan has appealed to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to reconsider his six-month suspension given earlier this month barring him from playing cricket at all levels, reports UNB. He has also rendered a...
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