Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed the optimism that it would be possible to ensure electricity for all in the country by 2021 through proper implementation of the plans undertaken by the present government, according to a news agency. “It is...
President Abdul Hamid leaves Dhaka on Thursday for Bolivia, as he embarks on a 10-day official tour of Bolivia and the USA. The President will first attend the commemorative summit of G-77 at Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Choudhury said Wednesday that competence and merit should be the criteria for promotion as well as leadership role for the members of women police. “There should not be any discrimination against women only for being women.”...
Academics suggested formulating a law with a provision of tough punishment for indulging in question paper leak of public examinations. They came up with the suggestion during a meeting with Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on the overall condition of...
Academics suggested formulating a law with a provision of tough punishment for indulging in question paper leak of public examinations. They came up with the suggestion during a meeting with Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on the overall condition of...
A mobile court in Barisal on Wednesday fined four mango traders Tk 25,000 each at a fruit wholesale market on Port Road area of the city for selling formalin-tainted fruits. Mangoes mixed with toxic chemical of four wholesalers were also...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will go to the northern district of Joypurhat on June 22 to drum up public support in favour of her party’s demand for arranging a fresh election under a non-party administration and mobilise public opinion against...
HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party (JP) will have to count Tk 10,000 in fine for its failure to submit the return of its expenses on January 5 national election to the Election Commission within the stipulated time. The commission on Wednesday...
Islamist insurgents in Iraq have seized the city of Tikrit, their second major gain after capturing Mosul Tuesday, security officials say. Tikrit, the hometown of former leader Saddam Hussein, lies just 150km (95 miles) north of the capital Baghdad. Iraqi...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) started a three-day special drive from Wednesday night to prevent chemical-tainted fruits from entering the capital city. DMP has decided to conduct the special drive amid growing concern over fruits laced with chemicals entering the city....
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
Former army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has taken over as the new president of Egypt following recent elections in which he won "97 per cent of the votes". Before a panel of judges of the supreme constitutional court, Field Marshal...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
Investment is facing a drought-like situation in Bangladesh. Political instability, lack of electricity and gas connectivity, high interest rate, loan processing charges and non-availability of black money for investment in industrial sector are retarding investment. Industrialisation is stuck up for...
Muhammad Yunus concluding his two-part article titled \"We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers\" | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
Whole process begins with the identification of a potential NU (Nobin Udyokta). The implementation structure of the investor, which has village-level staff to work with the entrepreneurs, is responsible for identification of the potential entrepreneurs, helps them develop their business...
An initiative by the Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) for recovery of canals from grabbers has apparently been prompted by the recent water-logging in many parts of the city. Why has it always to be such stop-gap measures instead...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
The stock market has been unjustly treated by the budget-makers, or so to say, by the policy-makers. Otherwise how come this year's budget can go without giving the ailing stock market any incentive worth mentioning. Rather, they took away what...
Frank Peters | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
On the eve of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup, Brazil has unshackled itself from its horrific past wrongs, turned over a new leaf, and become the 38th country in the world to ban corporal punishment to...
A news item captioned "Ignorance, not always a bliss: School-goers crossing a metallic fence of the road divider on Gulistan-Jatrabari Flyover at Kajla in the city amid high risks of accidents" published in the Financial Express recently makes me scared....
Leakage of question papers has been a serious threat to our educational system. Recently it has come into focus after the same happened in the HSC examination. Not only HSC question papers but also various competitive public examination question papers...
It is indeed good to know that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police will set up check posts to check against entrance of adulterated fruits into the capital. While expressing cautious optimism, we feel that in doing so first of all the...
Saleh Akram | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
The capital market of our country is in a total disarray. More specifically, it is under intensive care and curative doses need to be applied immediately if we want it to recuperate and survive. Nobody appears to be bothered except...
LONDON: European stock markets dropped Wednesday after recent rallies, while the aviation sector took a knock as Emirates airline cancelled a major order of Airbus planes. Analysts said dealers were taking a breather after a recent winning streak on global...
Md Hossain Ali | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
Training has no alternative. Training helps attain efficiency in any discipline -- be it sports, business, science or astronomy. Though basic training programmes in conventional areas are conducted by various institutions, training in specialised fields are rarely held mainly because...
A parliamentary watchdog on Wednesday recommended manufacturing drugs maintaining better quality for increasing remittance flow by exporting medicines. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Heath and Family Welfare Ministry came up with the recommendation at its first meeting held at Jatiya...
Yoko Kubota and Tetsushi Kajimoto of Reuters from Tokyo | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
Don Quijote and Uniqlo, two of Japan's best-known mass-market retailers, aren't waiting for the government's new growth policies due later this month before implementing their own labor reforms. While many labor-intensive businesses face a shortage of low-wage workers as Japan's...
Phil Stewart of Reuters from Washington | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
China's military spending exceeded $145 billion last year as it advanced a program modernizing an arsenal of drones, warships, jets, missiles and cyber weapons, the Pentagon said last week, offering a far higher figure than Beijing's official tally. The Pentagon's...
Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Pracha Hariraksapitak of Reuters from Bangkok | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
China and Vietnam have expressed support for Thailand's new military government, an army spokesman said last week, as pro-army supporters held a small gathering at the Australian Embassy in protest against downgrading of relations after last month's coup. Several foreign...
Rosemarie Francisco of Reuters from Manila | 2014-06-11 00:00:00
American power firm AES Corp said last week it is planning to invest up to $2.0 billion to expand its coal-fired power plant in the northwestern Philippines and put up power storage facilities to help stabilise supply in the energy-deficient...
MOSUL, June 10 (agencies): Militants took control Tuesday of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, officials said. "The city of Mosul is outside the control of the state and at the mercy of the militants," an interior ministry official told AFP, making...
KARACHI, June 10, (agencies): Taliban gunmen attacked a security post outside Pakistan's Karachi airport Tuesday, a day after an all-night siege by the militants left 37 dead and shredded a tentative peace process. The latest assault on the airport raised...
KABUL, June 10, (AFP): A US air strike killed five NATO coalition soldiers in an apparent "friendly fire" accident during clashes with Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, days ahead of the presidential election. Local police and the...
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