Sourajit Aiyer from Mumbai in the first of a two-part article titled What India\'s leading Prime Ministerial candidates mean for its economy | 2014-05-05 00:00:00
As India undergoes general elections with 800 million eligible voters, what do the contenders for the Prime Ministerial role mean for its economy? Leading the race are Rahul Gandhi, the candidate of the Congress Party-led UPA coalition, and Narendra Modi,...
The European Commission (EC) has raised its growth forecast for the European Union (EU), saying that "the recovery has taken hold". The 26 nations of the EU are forecast to grow by 1.6 per cent for 2014, a touch higher...
RAJSHAHI, May 4 (BSS): Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing five major projects involving Taka 4.27 billion at present aims at bringing a qualitative change particularly in the field of infrastructural and environmental elevation in the metropolis. The projects...
The European Commission has raised its growth forecast for the EU, saying that "the recovery has taken hold". The 26 nations of the EU are forecast to grow by 1.6% for 2014, a touch higher than the forecast of 1.5%...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-05 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, May 4: Barendra Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) is implementing a huge drinking water supply project in the villages in Nilphamari district. Till now the organisation which was established for the Barendra region installed 10 deep tubewells in different upazilas...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-05 00:00:00
RANGPUR, May 4: Cattle-lifting incidents have increased alarmingly at different upazilas in Rangpur district, much to the worry of the cattle owners. Sources alleged that a number of cattle-lifters blessed by the locally influential people and law enforcing agencies are...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-05 00:00:00
MAGURA, May 4: Magura green chilli growers are overjoyed with a bumper production and good price. A bumper production of green chilli has been achieved in the district. Newly harvested chilli has started to come to the market. Department of...
KHULNA, May 4 (BSS): Farmers are expecting bumper production of Boro paddy this season in Khulna and that the harvesting of the crop also started from last week, official sources said. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said, farmers have...
TANGAIL, May 4 (BSS): A truck driver was killed and five others were injured in a road accident in Bikramhati area on the Tangail-Bangabandhu Bridge Highway under Sadar upazila of the district today. The deceased was identified as Shakil, 22,...
JAMALPUR, May 4 (BSS): A three-day long Digital innovative fair began on the compound of Deputy Commissioner's office in the town Saturday. State Minister for Jute and Textile Mirza Azam, MP, inaugurated the fair as the chief guest. The State...
KUSHTIA, May 4 (UNB): At least 50 people fell sick after taking food at a marriage ceremony at Farakpur village in Bheramara upazila on Saturday night. Locals said they fell sick and started vomiting after taking food of a wedding...
COMILLA, May 4 (UNB): A youth was hacked to death by some unknown miscreants in Moloy Bazar area in Daudkandi upazila on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Faruk Ahmed, 30, son of Almas Bepari of Haripur village of...
MEHERPUR, May 4 (BSS): A housewife was chopped to death allegedly by her husband at Bashbaria village under Gangni upazila on Saturday. The victim was identified as Selina Khatun, 32, wife of Masud alias Injil Hossain of Bashbaria. Locals said...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-05 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, May 4: A press briefing and orientation meeting on Breast-Milk Substitutes (BMS) code and Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) was held at civil surgeon office in Gopalganj city Saturday, organised by Bangladesh Breast Feeding Foundation (BBF) and funded...
MAGURA, May 4 (UNB): A youth was beaten to death by his rivals at Piadapara village in Mohammadpur upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Mohon Mollah, 30, son of Sadek Hossain Mollah of the village. Quoting local people,...
Youth commits suicide in Jhalakati An addicted young allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at Bandaghata in Jhalakati Saturday. The deceased was identified as Al Amin Talukdar, 30, son of late Malek Talukdar of the town. Hospital sources said the...
ODESSA, May 4, (agencies): Deadly clashes and a fire in Odessa that killed 42 people in one day were part of a plan by Russia "to destroy Ukraine," the prime minister of the ex-Soviet republic said Sunday. "Russia's aim was...
NEW DELHI, May 3 (AP): A passenger train derailed in western India on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 57 others. The engine and four coaches jumped the tracks near Roha station, 110 kilometers (70 miles) south of...
SAMARRA, May 4 (AFP): Militants have attacked a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims north of Baghdad, killing 11 people, while a family of eight was shot dead south of the capital, Iraqi officials said Sunday. The bloodshed late Saturday comes during...
GUWAHATI, May 4, (AFP): Indian soldiers patrolled streets in northeast Assam Sunday as the number of Muslims killed in carnage blamed on tribal separatists rose to 35 with the discovery of more bodies, police said. Thousands of families have fled...
Bus crash kills 23, injures 17 in southwest Haiti HAITI, May 4: A bus crash in southwest Haiti killed 23 people and injured 17 on Saturday, authorities said. The mayor of the city of Jeremie, Ronald Etienne, told Reuters that...
David Milliken and Huw Jones of Reuters from London | 2014-05-05 00:00:00
The Bank of England's starkest warning so far about Britain's booming house prices is likely to be followed by cautious measures, possibly as soon as next month, as policymakers test out their new powers. Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe told bankers...
Dominic Evans of Reuters from Beirut | 2014-05-05 00:00:00
A Syrian rebel offensive aimed at easing a government siege east of Damascus has brought fighting closer to the last declared stockpile of President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons, according to diplomats and activists. Syria has been removing 1,300 metric tons...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-05-05 00:00:00
More than a million motorcycles are plying the roads across the country without registration with the BRTA mainly because of higher registration costs and dilly-dallying of law enforcement agencies, sources said. Officials of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) said...
The High Court (HC) on Sunday granted six months’ bail to Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) president Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel, former Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) president Delwar Hossain and Jatiyatabadi Swechchasebak Dal (SD) president Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel in separate criminal...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina underscored Sunday the need for joint initiatives by Bangladesh and Myanmar to stop human trafficking as well as arms and drug smuggling. “This is not possible to stop these crimes by a country alone, so we...
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