Our Correspondent | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
KHULNA, May 13: The Vice-Chancellor of KUET Dr. Muhammad Alamgir formally inaugurated the newly constructed Medical Centre at KUET on Monday as chief guest. The VC said that the newly constructed Medical Centre would be able to fulfill the medicare...
Youth drowns in Magura A youth drowned in the Nabaganga river near Magura Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Abdullah, 18, son of Golam Rabbani of the same area. Locals said the youth drowned in the river while he was...
MUNSHIGANJ, May 13 (BSS): A housewife was allegedly killed for dowry by her husband at Natungaon village under Sadar upazila of the district last night. The victim was identified as Mukta Begum, 24, mother of two children and wife of...
LALMONIRHAT, May 13 (UNB): A person was killed and 10 others were injured in a clash between two supporters of two brothers over a land dispute at Pathikapara village in Kaliganj upazila on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as...
NEW DELHI, May 13 (agencies): President Barack Obama faces the prospect this week of having to offer his congratulations to a new Indian leader who was barred from the United States less than 10 years ago over massacres of Muslims...
BAGHDAD, May 13 (AP): A wave of car bombings in mainly Shiite areas of Baghdad killed 28 people on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge in violence that has been the most serious challenge to the government's efforts...
NEW DELHI, May 13 (PTI) : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was given a standing ovation by his staff at South Block during a farewell they hosted for him Tuesday, a day after the general elections ended. It also saw some...
PESHAWAR, May 13, (AFP): Gunmen on Tuesday killed two schoolteachers-one Sunni Muslim, one Shiite-in a northwestern Pakistani town with a history of sectarian violence, police said. The double murder came in the Sunni-dominated town of Hangu, around 60 kilometres (40...
AMMAN, May 13 (AP): Jordan's ambassador abducted last month in Libya has been released by his captors and is on his way home, the kingdom's foreign minister said on Tuesday. Ambassador Fawaz al-Etan was taken by gunmen from his vehicle...
KATHMANDU, May 13, (AFP): Two foreign mountaineers have returned to Everest after a deadly avalanche effectively ended the climbing season, flying by helicopter partway up the peak before starting their ascents, an official said Tuesday. The female climbers, from the...
The 4th summit of the ‘Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia’ (CICA) will be held in Shanghai, China on May 20-21. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will attend the summit, said a Foreign Ministry media release on...
UKRAINE, May13 (Reuters): Russia said on Tuesday new European Union sanctions will hinder efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine and urged the West to persuade Kiev to hold discussions on the country's future structure before a May 25 presidential...
3 UN peacekeepers wounded by land mine in Mali BAMAKO, May 13: A spokesman for the U.N. mission in Mali says three of its peacekeepers have been wounded in the country's far north. Spokesman Olivier Salgado said a U.N. vehicle...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
Burdened by losses and uneven competition, as many as 20 superstores have folded their operations in recent years and many others may follow suit people familiar with the situation say. While demand from urbanites and upper and middle-class shoppers has...
FE Report | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
Orion Group has inked deals with GE of the USA and Doosan of South Korea over the supply of steam turbine generator and super critical boiler for its 660 megawatts (mw) coal-fired power plant, a company official said. The Orion...
Janata Bank gets five new GMs Md Mosaddake-ul-Alam, Mahamudul Hoque, Md Join Uddin Mia, Salekuzzaman and Md Moshiur Rahman have recently been promoted to the post of general manager (GM) of Janata Bank Limited. Mosaddake-ul-Alam joined the bank as a...
Twenty-five of the 51 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve their respective export targets for the first 10 months (July-April) of the current fiscal (2013-14), reports UNB. The key Bangladesh missions like the ones in Washington, London, Paris, Ottawa,...
Qatar, one of the richest Gulf States, has expressed interest to invest in Bangladesh's energy sector and building LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal, reports UNB. Qatar Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani conveyed it to Bangladesh Commerce...
SHANGHAI, May 13 (AFP): China's yuan will one day compete for a place alongside the mighty dollar as a reserve currency hoarded by central banks, analysts said, as US Treasury chief Jacob Lew urged faster reform on a visit to...
JAKARTA, May 13 (AFP) : BlackBerry on Tuesday launched a new budget handset in Indonesia, one of its last bastions, in the hope it will take off in emerging markets and stem a decline in the smartphone maker's fortunes. The...
Sony execs lose bonuses again after another bad year TOKYO, May 13 : Struggling electronics giant Sony will not pay bonuses to senior executives for the third straight year, the Japanese company said Tuesday, as it braces for another disastrous...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
The government is finally set to launch an air cargo service with a view to facilitating export and import trade of the country, the official source have said. "The government is contemplating introduction of a low-cost air cargo service for...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh is yet to tap the potential of tourism sector to achieve its poverty reduction target although the government declared it a thrust sector, which experts say, should be exploited carefully for employment generation both for educated and the underprivileged....
Prime Minister's Economic Affairs Adviser Dr Mashiur Rahman on Tuesday said the construction work on the Multipurpose Padma Bridge will be completed under the current government. "The work on the Padma Bridge has begun and it will be completed during...
NEW DELHI, May 13 (AFP): India's industrial production shrank in March for the fifth time in sixth months, data showed Monday, underscoring the challenge facing the next government to revive Asia's third-largest economy. Output from India's mines, factories and utilities...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
Abdus Sabur , a farmer of Shekher Khil union under Bashshkhali upazila in Chittagong this year sold his salt at Tk2.2 per kg. The same salt, after being refined, packed and marketed, was bought at Tk25 per kg at Nawabganj...
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