Yasir Wardad | 2014-05-09 00:00:00
Apart from getting popular in the domestic market, Bangladeshi rice bran oil is now going to make foray into the global market, industry people said. A private company is sending the first consignment of the nutrition-rich cooking oil (crude) within...
LONDON, May 8 (AFP): World oil prices fell Thursday as some traders cashed in the previous day's gains won on the back of strengthening crude demand in the United States. Crude futures also retreated on an apparent easing of tensions...
CHICAGO, May 8 (Xinhua): Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell below 1,300 U.S. dollars per ounce yesterday following Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen's encouraging testimony before Congress. The most active gold contract for...
RANGAMATI, May 8 (BSS): The production of mango and litchi in the district has suffered a setback in the current season due to severe drought for the absence of rainfall and adverse climate effect. Farmers of the district have expressed...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2014-05-09 00:00:00
The change of weather with unbearable heat waves in April to moderate hot and humid weather in May this year made us happy, but it should have made the country's energy and power sector managers happier. At least now the...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-05-09 00:00:00
A court in Thailand has ordered prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra removed from the office for "abuse" of power. The country now appears to be plunging into a deeper crisis. The development has come as a big setback for the prime...
Although enacted two years ago in 2012, the Competition Act will shortly have its rules framed for effectively curbing hoarding and 'syndication' in order to help ensure fair prices of essentials. A FE report last Saturday said rules are being...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-05-09 00:00:00
Not all is quiet and well on the health-service front in this country. Its hospitals are making news for all the wrong reasons. No civilised nation has ever experienced clashes, let alone such negative incidents repeatedly between physicians and relatives...
S A Mansoor | 2014-05-09 00:00:00
Education is essentially a social enterprise that aims at training young minds to express themselves and add to the knowledge and values. It does not follow the old precept of reproducing knowledge by rote which was the earlier established practice....
Introduction of new taxicabs by the communication ministry is obviously a praiseworthy step. The new taxicabs are designed with modern services, including GPRS. The Bangladesh Army is handling the whole project. Although the taxicabs will ease the communication for common...
Lack of security is seriously denting the mood of investors as no one wants to invest when the overall situation of a country is tumultuous. Investors have already suffered due to pre-poll election violence and are gradually recovering from the...
It is sad that despite the High Court's clear directive, the government is yet to take tough tangible action against food adulteration. Our national health is under serious threat. Unscrupulous traders mix different types of chemical in food items so...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2014-05-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh is located in the lowest part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river systems with a long coastal belt along the Bay of Bengal. The country is endowed with diversified species of flora and fauna. Agriculture is the major economic activity...
William H. Rabel reviewing the book | 2014-05-09 00:00:00
Khuda Buksh: The Pioneer of Life Insurance in Bangladesh is a well-written and interesting book about a fascinating individual. Clearly Mr. Khuda Buksh was one of the outstanding life insurance men of his generation in Asia and his story can...
Masum Billah reviewing the book | 2014-05-09 00:00:00
On the shelves of BRAC village libraries, popularly known as Gonokendra', you can find books on various subjects that aim at satisfying the thirst for knowledge of the village people. Various publishers continue to send books to the officials who...
Denouncing shifting of trial venue of Khaleda Zia's graft cases to Alia Madrasah makeshift court, BNP alleged Thursday that the government had taken the move in a bid to harass Khaleda and keep her away from politics, reports UNB. "The...
Workers Party (WP) of Bangladesh demanded a fair investigation into the abduction and killing of seven people, including, Narayanganj city panel mayor Nazrul Islam and lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarker, reports UNB. The party leaders and activists held a rally near...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 has set June 22 for order on the prosecution-proposed contempt-of-court plea against senior lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain over his 'scandalous' remarks on the current war crimes trial, reports UNB. After closing the hearing from both...
Sunamganj BNP leader Haji Mujibur Rahman, missing since Sunday night, had spent time in a UK prison, accused of an attempt to murder, reports bdnews24.com. Some Bangladeshis living in the UK told the news agency over phone that Rahman had...
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) has nominated Zebunnesa Afroz, wife of late Shawkat Hossain Hiron, as its candidate to contest the by-poll in Barisal-5 constituency slated for June 12, reports BSS. The nomination was finalised at a meeting of the Awami...
The Election Commission (EC) announced Thursday that the election to newly-formed Naldanga Upazila in Natore would be held on June 9, reports UNB. According to the schedule, the deadline for submission of nomination paper on May 15 while the date...
Child parliament session ends The ses sion of the Child Parliament-2014 ended at the members' club of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban Thursday. Deputy Speaker Md Fazley Rabbi Mia joined the session as the chief guest while chairman of parliamentary standing...
Md Shahjahan Ali Mollah, chief of the probe body, formed to investigate law enforcers' involvement in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, said the fact behind the murder of seven people would be divulged, reports UNB. "The investigation into the murders will...
Singapore has showed its interest to construct 10,000 flats in Purbachal, a housing project on the outskirts of the capital. A Singaporean government delegation that also included representatives of a private business conglomerate recently gave a proposal to the Ministry...
The time-less philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore that championed humanism and non-communal ideas need to be disseminated to establish a society based on them, reports BSS. This was the consensus among speakers at this year's 153rd birth anniversary discussion of the...
RANGAMATI, May 8 (bdnews24.com): Miscreants have killed two brothers early on Thursday in Rangamati district of the Chittagong hill tracts. Those killed were identified as Sushanta Chakma, 40 and Tridev Chakma, 35. The two were former activists of Parbatya Jana...
A minor boy sustained injuries when a crude bomb exploded in the city's Pallabi area on Thursday, reports UNB. The victim was identified as Arif Hossain (5), son of Anju Mia of Kalshi under Pallabi Thana in the city. The...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-09 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, May 8: The local administration has constituted a 15-member rehabilitation committee to save people from probable hillslide in the city. A meeting was held at the conference hall of the Divisional Commissioner M Abdullah on Thursday attended by relevant...
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