BlackBerry steps up fightback with Indonesian phone JAKARTA, May 11 : BlackBerry will this week launch a new budget handset in Indonesia, one of its last bastions, a major step in the ailing smartphone maker's fightback against titans Samsung and...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed will leave Dhaka for Doha on Monday morning to attend the three-day 14th Doha Forum, reports UNB. Mr Tofail will make a deliberations at the Forum on labour market policies and its impact on the economy...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-05-12 00:00:00
The ongoing wheat procurement drive has brought nothing for the growers as influential political figures and politically-connected traders are eating up profits worth above Tk 750 million, farmers and officials said. The Directorate General of Food (DGoF) has targeted to...
JAKARTA, May 11 (AFP): Southeast Asia's booming palm oil industry is facing a double blow from a recent drought and a possible El Nino weather phenomenon later this year, with analysts warning a production shortfall could spark a jump in...
GAIBANDHA, May 11 (BSS): Maize cultivation has gained much popularity among 'char' dwellers of the district in recent years as it has played a significant role in eradicating their poverty and changing their life. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, May 11 (Reuters): India's main Hindu nationalist party says it plans to clamp down on beef exports if it takes power after general elections that end on Monday, threatening supplies from one of the world's biggest shippers of...
It appears that the efforts of US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry towards a peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine question have run out of steam. It is also becoming clear that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-05-12 00:00:00
Countries across the world are in a competition with regard to having a low corporate income tax or tax on business's income. Bangladesh's rate in this respect falls in the middle. That is, some countries are having higher corporate income...
It is hard to conceive of a national budget without any allocation of public expenditure fund for, what is categorised as, subsidy. There could be variation in its amount but the presence of subsidy in the budget is a must...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2014-05-12 00:00:00
Slums are eyesores to every one except those who live there. In spite of being disliked by many they have become an integral part of urbanisation almost in all countries. They are a mirror image of societies where poverty is...
Neil Ray | 2014-05-12 00:00:00
Popular writer and distinguished teacher Jafar Iqbal has rightly made his feeling known about the general apathy towards the leakage of question papers. He is disappointed that the issue has not received due attention even from the media. As a...
Despite clear instruction from the education ministry and huge criticism by the media, the ministers and members of parliament are accorded reception by school children. In fact, students are compelled to stay long hours under the scorching sun to welcome...
The recent news on TCB's drive to keep Ramadan market cool is good news for common people. The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will build up a stock of five Ramadan essentials in order to ensure smooth supply during the...
Finally the Rajshahi Medical College & Hospital (RMCH) authorities have taken a tough decision and withheld the certificates of 20 odd internee doctors who have been accused of assaulting journalists. Even, later, they refused to treat a bleeding photo journalist....
The heading of yesterday's editorial was inadvertently printed as "Investing on manpower training". Preposition 'in' instead of 'on' should precede manpower training.
Jamal Ahmed Choudhury | 2014-05-12 00:00:00
The term 'dividend' in finance refers to distribution of profits by a company among its shareholders. The company may choose to pay cash to its shareholders out of profit earned by it during a year or profit previously earned but...
Tanvir Raquib | 2014-05-12 00:00:00
Today is the International Nurses Day. The nursing profession is indispensable in the health system. Nurses play a vital role in the treatment and recovery of patients. As a 93 per cent women-majority profession in a traditional society like Bangladesh...
RANGPUR: At least two people were killed and many went missing as a bus plunged into the Jamuneshwari River breaking the railing of a bridge in Taraganj upazila Sunday night. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet,...
Alauddin Mohammad | 2014-05-11 00:00:00
Public universities in developing countries play an important role in empowering the citizens through various means. Like in other such countries, the public universities have been shaping the middle class of Bangladesh since earlier decades of the last century. Dhaka...
Shahida Begum, Nishat Afroz Mirza, Md Tanvirul Islam and Kazi Sultan Ahmed | 2014-05-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in creating access to and achieving gender parity in primary education. According to the MDG progress report 2012, the country is about to achieve the goal of universal primary education for all. The net enrollment...
BANGKOK, May 10 (agencies): Thousands of pro-government "Red Shirts" massed in Thailand's capital Saturday to challenge attempts by opposition protesters to hand power to an unelected regime, warning that the kingdom was lurching towards "civil war". The dismissal of prime...
JOHANNESBURG, May 10 (agencies): South Africa's ruling African National Congress won the 2014 national election with 62.16 percent of the votes, the electoral commission said on Friday. The provisional result shows the ANC's main rival, the Democratic Alliance (DA), took...
SANAA, May 10, (AFP): Suspected al Qaeda-linked gunmen attacked Yemen's presidential palace Friday and tried to kill the defense minister in his car, selecting high profile targets in apparent reprisal for the army's biggest push against militants in nearly two...
NEW DELHI, May 10 (AFP): Ruling Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi warned Saturday of an India divided by caste and creed if the Hindu nationalist opposition wins power, as campaigning ended in the nation's multi-stage election. Gandhi sought to muster...
NAYPYIDAW, May 10 (AFP): Myanmar will parade its once isolated capital to international leaders this weekend, hosting a landmark summit of Southeast Asia's regional bloc as reforms see the country strut onto the world stage. Teams of local workers plucked...
BAGHDAD, May 10 (AP): A series of bombings in Iraq killed 14 people Saturday, as army shelling killed 11 civilians and gunmen in the militant-held city of Fallujah a day earlier, authorities said. Police officials said the deadliest of Saturday's...
Strong quake shakes Mexico MEXICO CITY, May 10: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook southern Mexico and the nation's capital early Saturday, prompting people to flee into the streets in the dead of night two days after a similar temblor. There...
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