Alonso Soto of Reuters from Brasilia | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
Leaders of the BRICS emerging market nations meet next week to launch a development bank and emergency reserves fund, an ambitious challenge to Western-run multilaterals that have shaped global finances since the end of World War Two. Brazil, China, India,...
Maggie Fick of Reuters from Baghdad | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
The video on his phone shows the boy firing a heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod through a hole in a crumbling building, his slender body shaking from the kickback. "We were kind of nervous, not because we are...
Mai Nguyen of Reuters from Hanoi | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
Sitting alone in the corner of bar in Vietnam's capital, Doan Minh Tuan buries his head in his hands as he watched the penalty shootout save that fires the Netherlands into soccer's World Cup semi-finals. He wasn't mourning the shattered...
Nita Bhalla of Reuters from New Delhi | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
The new government's budget shows no real commitment towards the environment and is not transformational because it does not allocate enough funds towards promoting renewable energy or public transport and appears to favour corporates over people, environmentalists said on late...
Kazunori Takada of Reuters and Pete Sweeney from Shanghai | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
China's central bank is looking into allegations by a state broadcaster that Bank of China, the country's fourth largest lender, has been laundering money offshore for clients, the official Xinhua news agency said last week. While Beijing maintains a tight...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
A very thrilling World Cup indeed. Germany very much deserved the win. A young, exuberant team who played with skill, pace, teamwork and drive, Germany put on a superb tournament. The win made Germany the first European team to prevail...
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
I read a letter carried in USA's Huffington Post, a leading liberal online newspaper in the United States. It has been written by Bobby Kennedy's daughter Kerry Kennedy, one that will touch the heart of any Bangladeshi and make him/her...
The curtain has come down and the 2014 football World Cup is now over with Germany clinching the victory. Expectations before the tournaments of this great quadrennial event were otherwise high about regional countries becoming the winner of the World...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
It is a piece of good news that readymade garment (RMG) exports hit record $25 billion in the immediate past fiscal year. This might upset the doomsayers who had forecast almost a forced exit of Bangladesh from the international market...
Md Mahbub Alam Prodip | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
Men and women have different socio-economic status and positions in our society and they play diverse roles and carry out distinct responsibilities. So, their needs should be considered differently. In general, a government of a country deals with the socio-economic...
A news item published in the Financial Express on Monday expressing fear that labour unrest is looming large in a large number of garment factories in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj and Chittagong makes our heart ache. The report, quoting the industrial...
When the German team were celebrating their victory, Argentine super star Lionel Messi looked forlorn and heartbroken as he could not fulfil the dream of winning the World Cup trophy for his country as his compatriot Maradona did 28 years...
It is alarming that muggers have become active ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr. The Financial Express carried this timely and worrying issue on its front page on Sunday. The report says muggers use firearms, sharp weapons, motorbikes and in some cases...
Mizanur Rahman | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina began her second term in 2009, with a landslide electoral victory. Her party, Bangladesh Awami League, had then won 230 out of 300 seats and secured 48 per cent votes in the Ninth National Parliamentary Election....
Branding Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad as killers, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia said on Monday all the murderers got united and established a reign of killings in the country, reports UNB. "JSD, a killing...
Expressing his dissatisfaction over the internet speed and quality, Prime Minister's ICT adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said Monday the government will go for providing 1mbps internet connection at union level across the country very soon, reports UNB. "My aim is...
Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member and former Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta urged Monday BNP to change its political outlook shunning power-centric ill- politics, reports BSS. "Come out of power-centric ill-politics. Switch over to politics of democratic values shunning thoughts...
Opposition leader Raushon Ershad strongly condemned and protested Monday the indiscriminate killings of innocent Palestinian people, including women and children, by continued Israeli air-strikes and rocket fire on Gaza strip, reports UNB. In a statement, she said: "The global community...
Speakers at a discussion said Monday that secularism does not mean anti-religion, while the state is universal but the religion is personal, reports BSS. They said father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman upheld the core principles of nationalism,...
A court in the city Monday rejected the bail petition of accused Mian Nur Uddin Opu, personal secretary (PS) to BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, in a Tk 210 million bribery case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), reports...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-07-15 00:00:00
The government is set to lay optical fiber network in all of its offices at district, upazila and union parishad with a view to spreading internet services to the grassroot level across the country, sources said. According to the sources,...
The education ministry asked Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) to provide it with the details of its recent report that allegedly found corruption centring private universities, reports UNB. In a letter sent to TIB Monday the ministry said specific information was...
NARAYANGANJ, July 14 (BSS): Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) announced today a development-oriented budget of Tk 4.2405 billion for the current fiscal year 2014-15 as against Tk 4.0394 billion in the last fiscal. Mayor Dr Selina Hayat Ivy announced the budget...
Today is the 6th death anniversary of Najah Zayaan, daughter of TV talk-show presenter Zillur Rahman. On the occasion, a milad mahfil and Qurankhwani will be held at her grave at Azimpur graveyard in the city. Relatives and well-wishers have...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at different places until 6:00 pm...
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