Microsoft has said that Xbox One will go on sale in China in September. It is the first foreign company to announce the sale of its consoles in China after the country lifted a 14-year old ban in January this...
The cost of watching a newly released film will depend upon the size of the screen on which it is viewed in future, the head of Dreamworks Animation says. Those who watched on a "movie screen" would pay the most...
A court in Chittagong on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing his pregnant wife for dowry at West Boroghona village in Banshkhali upazila in 2010. The convict, Fazal Karim, 38, was also fined Tk 1 lakh. According to...
Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has admitted his forces are "helpless" to quell unrest driven by pro-Russian activists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Mr Turchynov said the goal was now to prevent the unrest spreading. Activists have...
An air raid on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria's main northern city Aleppo hit a school, killing at least 18 people, 10 of them children, Wednesday, a monitoring group said. At least one teacher was also among the dead in...
The Election Commission cannot hold the elections to the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations, despite being prepared. Election Commissioner Shah Nawaz on Wednesday made the remark while talking to reporters at his EC Secretariat office in the city. “The DCC polls...
A new disease called Chikungunya that causes painful and sometimes crippling symptoms has spread in the capital Dhaka, raising a public health alarm. The mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus first broke out in the northern Chapainawabganj district in 2008 and a year...
Wife of MP Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury Nixon died Tuesday night after reportedly falling off the roof of the six-storey building they lived in at Gulshan-2, in the city. Muntarin Mujib Chowdhury, 33, allegedly slipped and fell, Nixon’s personal assistant Khandker...
Royal Dutch Shell capped a strong first quarter reporting season for oil majors with better-than-expected results which were boosted by gas earnings, while shareholders were rewarded with a higher dividend. Shares in the company were up more than 3 per...
Speakers at a dialogue in Dhaka on Wednesday said political crisis, corruption and lack of good governance are the key barriers to elimination of poverty and inequalities from the country. Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP) in association with Global Call to...
A meeting of the board of directors of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) was held on Wednesday. Presided over by the chairman of bank’s board of directors Prof Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher, the meeting was held in the board...
The government has banned black or tinted glasses on microbuses starting from May 10 after the recent rise in abductions in which such vehicles were used. The Ministry of Home Affairs issued the order to this end on Wednesday, according...
Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the associate workers’ body of BNP, on Wednesday finally got permission to hold its scheduled rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Thursday to mark the May Day. “The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has given permission over phone for...
Charging the ruling party men with the incidents of killing, forced disappearance and abduction, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday said these repressive and ‘heinous’ acts can be stopped only when a pro-people government assumes office. “The current illegal regime...
Amnesty International (AI) is urging Pakistan to investigate threats to journalists and probe its military and intelligence agencies for stifling media freedoms. The watchdog says in a report released on Wednesday that the Pakistani journalists often face threats to their...
Amnesty International (AI) is urging Pakistan to investigate threats to journalists and probe its military and intelligence agencies for stifling media freedoms. The watchdog says in a report released on Wednesday that the Pakistani journalists often face threats to their...
India's Election Commission has accused the main opposition BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of violating the election code. He breached poll laws by flashing his party's symbol and making a political speech while voting was going on in the...
LONDON: Europe's main stock markets closed mixed Wednesday, and the dollar slid, as data revealed a slump to US growth, while traders awaited the outcome of the Federal Reserve's latest meeting. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies added 0.15...
The Mexican government is proposing bidding-based rules for the opening of its state-owned oil and energy industry, saying contracts and production licenses will be put out for public bid and will go to the company that offers the best return....
Stating that ensuring the compliance is not possible without the relocation of poorly-equipped factories, business leaders at a meeting in Dhaka on Wednesday suggested the government set up an industrial zone with all utility services either near Chittagong or Dhaka...
The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed on May 26 as the Rajab moon was sighted on Wednesday. The National Moon Sighting Committee confirmed this after a meeting held at the conference room of the Islamic Foundation, said a handout. Joint...
Russian companies shut out of Western markets as a result of the Ukraine crisis are scouting the possibility of raising cash via Chinese or Singapore bonds instead, even if a large scale funding switch to Asia is likely to be...
BEIJING: An explosion hit a railway station in the capital of China's Xinjiang Wednesday, state media reported, the same day that President Xi Jinping ended a visit to the restive region. The blast occurred at around 7pm local time at...
The US economy barely grew in the first quarter as the severe winter hampered exports and led businesses to curtail investment spending, but activity already appears to be bouncing back. Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded at a 0.1-per cent annual...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-04-30 00:00:00
Nowhere in the world do physicians or medical practitioners, also known as 'doctors', enjoy the degree of freedom as they are enjoying in Bangladesh. They can hold full-time positions in government-run medical colleges and hospitals and at the same time,...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury back from India | 2014-04-30 00:00:00
As certain comments by some hard-line communal leaders have stoked fears and tensions among the minority communities, Narendra Modi, the front runner for prime ministership, has sought to allay such fears, saying that the country would be governed by the...
'Corporate Social Responsibility' (CSR) is a relatively new concept for Bangladeshi businesses. Prior to its formal recognition as an important element of business operations, a section of the wealthy people here for time immemorial had been spending money on philanthropic...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-04-30 00:00:00
Rural life in Bangladesh confronts a number of conundrums - 'ranging from vagaries of nature and uncertainties of the market to personal calamities of myriad types'. In this article, we shall depend on the conceptual framework espoused by S.R. Osmani...
S.A.Mansoor | 2014-04-30 00:00:00
The decision by the government to shut down power plants daily for an hour, which became effective from April 20 seems to be totally meaningless, ineffective, uneconomic and technically unjustified. Shutting any generating unit, even a small one (say, 250KW),...
A news item titled "All are silent but are in panic" has drawn my attention. Seven people were abducted in broad daylight from Dhaka-Narayanganj link road, adjacent to which the Police Super's office is situated. Understanding the magnitude of the...
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