MANDALAY, July 5 (AP): Muslims in Myanmar's second-largest city accused police Saturday of standing by as a Buddhist mob went on a rampage, torching a school and other buildings. Angry mourners, some carrying crude weapons, rioted in Mandalay after the...
MOSCOW, July 5 (AFP): Pro-Russian fighters have abandoned their main stronghold of Slavyansk but Ukrainian troops are yet to enter the town, the town's self-proclaimed separatist mayor told AFP. "The fighters have left. The Ukrainian army is not yet in...
CAIRO, July 5 (AFP): An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 36 other Islamists to life in prison Saturday, and confirmed death sentences for 10 others, most of them on the run. Badie, convicted of involvement in...
BAGHDAD, July 5 (agencies): Militants may have overrun large swathes of Iraq and he might face eroding domestic and international backing, but Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki remains many Iraqis' top choice to lead the country. Experts have cast doubt on...
KOCHI, July 5 (AFP): A group of 46 Indian nurses held "against their will" in a part of Iraq seized by Islamic militants returned home on Saturday to an emotional reunion with their families. The relatives, clutching bouquets and hoisting...
JERUSALEM, July 5 (AFP): Gaza militants fired a new volley of rockets into Israel Saturday, clouding Egyptian efforts to broker a renewed truce, after protests over a Palestinian teenager's murder spread to Arab-Israeli towns. Israeli police reported clashes in three...
MOGADISHU, July 5 (AFP): Several people were killed when a powerful suicide car bomb exploded near Somalia's parliament in the capital Mogadishu Saturday, police and witnesses said. Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels claimed responsibility for the bombing, the latest in a surge...
150 killed in Sudan clan battle near oil field KHARTOUM, July 5: A battle between rival Sudanese clans near an oil-drilling site killed 150 people and wounded 100 more, state-linked media reported on Thursday. The fighting in West Kordofan state...
M H Bari | 2014-07-06 00:00:00
Graduate unemployment is a major problem in our country. A large number of young people are suffering from underemployment problem. They have to opt for a job that is not suitable to them and there is little scope of fulfilling...
Masum Billah | 2014-07-06 00:00:00
A very recent report regarding the education of private universities was released in the Parliamentary Standing Committee of education ministry meeting which has baffled us. It directly said that certificate trade and irregularities are rampant in the private universities. Even...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-07-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh Mudran Shilpa Samity (BMSS) has sought prime minister's intervention to ensure supply of quality text books to primary and secondary school students. The state-run National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) is responsible for overseeing the print of text books....
Dhaka Bank Limited celebrated its 19th anniversary on Saturday. Mr. Mirza Abbas Uddin Ahmed, Founder & Director of Dhaka Bank Limited attended a doa mehfil with other high officials of the Bank. Later, on the same occasion Dhaka Bank donated...
MEXICO CITY, July 5 (Reuters): Mexico's central bank is likely to hold its main interest rate steady at a record low next Friday to support a rocky economic recovery after a surprise rate cut last month, a Reuters poll showed...
BEIJING, July 5 (Reuters): The Chinese Ministry of Commerce's anti-monopoly bureau has approved Lenovo Group's proposed $2.3 billion deal to buy IBM Corp's low-end server business.
China, S Korea trade pact must overcome wide gaps SEOUL, July 5: Trade between the two countries totalled $230 billion last year and Chinese President Xi Jinping and Korean President Park Geun-hye pledged at Thursday's summit in Seoul to work...
The Cabinet Purchase Committee, the highest body to approve any public procurement, is likely to consider a French company's tender proposal for new online value added tax (VAT) system. Official sources said the National Board of Revenue (NBR) recently sent...
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (PCJSS) has demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment for those responsible for the attack on CHT Commission, while strongly condemning the dastardly act. Organization’s information and publicity secretary Mangal Kumar Chakma in a statement expressed...
Oxfam, the leading worldwide development organisation, has been selected as the winner of best film produced in Bangladesh on Disaster Risk Reduction at the 6th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) held in Bangkok recently, reports UNB. Recognising...
NEW DELHI, July 5 (AFP) : India has banned the import of foie gras, a government notice said, after animal rights activists complained that the method used to produce the duck liver delicacy was cruel. "Import policy of the item...
PARIS, July 5 (Reuters) : Apple has poached a senior executive from Swiss luxury watch brand Tag Heuer, which could be to help it with the launch of its iWatch expected this autumn. Tag Heuer, part of luxury goods group...
CAIRO, July 5 (AFP) : Egypt's government drastically raised fuel prices late Friday to tackle a bloated subsidy system, in a potentially unpopular move that might blow back on newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. With an economy battered by...
STOCKHOLM, July 5 (AFP) : Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb on Friday accused Apple's late founder Steve Jobs of crushing his Nordic country's job market by selling innovations that caught Finland's companies off guard. "We had two pillars we stood...
AIX-EN-PROVENCE , France, July 5 (Reuters) : Airbus Group has not decided whether it will launch its proposed A330neo jet at this month's Farnborough Airshow but is confident about the outlook for plane orders at the gala event, its strategy...
40 per cent' of Madagascar budget lost to corruption: PM ANTANANARIVO, July 5:Madagascar's Prime Minister Roger Kolo has vowed to stamp out corruption after revealing that 40 per cent of his country's budget is lost to graft. "Forty per cent...
SINGAPORE, July 5 (Xinhua): Industry players at a banking forum here on Friday said they see huge business opportunities from urbanisation in Asia, with a researcher highlighting themes such as infrastructure, consumer products and agriculture. The infrastructure sector of the...
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