Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took US ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy on a test ride of Japan's super-fast magnetic train on Saturday, showcasing the "Maglev" technology Tokyo hopes to sell to its ally. "I hope ambassador Kennedy will enjoy the...
Amazon is preparing to release a smartphone in the second half of 2014, thrusting itself into a market already crowded with Apple and Samsung models. The company aims to announce its new product by the end of June and ship...
Maoist rebels killed 12 people in two poll-related blasts Saturday in an insurgency-hit region of central India, police said, highlighting security worries in the nation's marathon election. Six polling team officials were killed when Maoists blew up their bus in...
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday called upon the country’s student community to grow their reading habit instead of confining their knowledge to mere class notes. Reading habit has to be developed instead of confining your knowledge to class notes and...
A week-long book fair begins at the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) in the capital on Sunday marking the club’s diamond jubilee. The book fair which will be inaugurated in the afternoon on Sunday will remain open from 3 pm to...
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has instructed its hospitals and treatment centres to stop using glucose and rice-based saline obtained from the icddr,b Employees’ Multipurpose Cooperative Society. The decision has been taken by the icddr,b management, pending...
Ukraine said on Saturday it was suspending payments to Russia for deliveries of gas, ratcheting up the tension in a standoff that has the potential to leave European Union states cut off from the Russian gas supplies on which they...
The government will submit a progress report on ‘Bangladesh Action Plan 2013’ to the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) by Tuesday though the review for reinstating Bangladesh’s Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits still looks uncertain. The...
The appointment of ex-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the board of technology firm Dropbox is being criticised by some service users. Protests on social media say she is a controversial figure after revelations of widespread wiretapping on US...
A group of Dhaka University (DU) students are fighting pitched battles with shop owners at the nearby Nilkhet market. Several shops in Nilkhet, which is the biggest book market in Dhaka, have been torched. Police say the clashes broke out...
Pro-Russian militants on Saturday seized a state security building in Slavyansk after occupying a police station in the eastern Ukrainian city earlier in the day, the interior ministry said. "The same group of armed men who seized the district police...
The government wants to 'silence' the Ganajagaran Mancha movement since it no longer serves the interests of the ruling party, Imran H Sarker has alleged. Sarker was removed as the Ganajagaran spokesperson on Saturday afternoon by others in the group....
The energy ministry has worked out a plan to implement six more gas projects involving Tk 12.37 billion under the Gas Development Fund (GDF), a special fund created by the government through consumers' money derived from increased gas price. While...
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has set May 31 as the deadline for the transport owners to collect their fitness certificates afresh for their all kinds of unfit vehicles plying on roads and highways across the country. “If any motorised...
Turkey's prime minister accused Twitter Saturday of tax evasion after the micro-blogging site was used to spread a number of damaging leaks implicating his inner circle in corruption scandals. "Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are international companies established for profit," Recep...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday threatened to wage movement against the government again at the appropriate time after reorganising her party. “I don’t follow anybody’s dictate… we’ll wage our movement after reorganising our party,” she said. Khaleda was addressing...
Kuwait's opposition called Saturday for broad democratic reforms including a Western-style party system to limit the powers of the emirate's ruling family. The call came in a "national political reform programme," launched by the Opposition Coalition in the Gulf state...
Bangladesh could have easily achieved over 7 per cent GDP growth in the current fiscal year had there been no political confrontations that caused huge losses to the national economy. The observation was made in the executive board report of...
Armed pro-Russian militants raised the Russian flag in an eastern Ukrainian city on Saturday, deepening a stand-off with Moscow which, Kiev warned, was dragging Europe closer to a "gas war" that could disrupt supplies across the continent. At least 20...
Speakers at a seminar on ‘fatigue properties of steel’ in Bangladesh underscored on Saturday the need for ensuring fatigue test before use of steel rod and other steel products in construction works. They said that most people involved in civil...
The government will instal WiFi facilities in at least 0.1 million public places across the country, State Minister for Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology Junaid Ahmed Palak said on Saturday. “WiFi hot spots will be set up at market places,...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Benazir Ahmed on Saturday asked the organizers to wrap up open air Pahela Baishakh functions by 6pm. Hundreds of open air rallies, music concert and fairs have been planned in the capital city to celebrate...
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank, will debate on South-South Cooperation at the first high-level meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) to be held in Mexico on Tuesday. The Southern Voice on...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reciprocated the gesture of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by greeting her ahead of the Bangla New Year. She reciprocated a greeting card to her arch political rival on Saturday. BNP’s Assistant Office Secretary Abdul Latif...
A garments workers’ association has demanded that the compensations for the dead and the injured workers of Rana Plaza be paid by April 24. The National Garments Workers Federation formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has termed Bangladesh Nationalist Party as an illegal organisation founded by a military ruler who seized power illegally. “Its unfortunate for the people of Bangladesh to hear theories from those who have been illegal,” she told...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday observed that the country has turned into a ‘jail’ under the current regime. “They (govt) are arbitrarily filing cases against people… attacking and harassing the common people,” he told a...
A meeting of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust was held at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi here on Saturday evening. Chairperson of the trust and Bangabandhu’s eldest daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will introduce special road dividers at the end of this month to deter the prevalent tendency of driving in wrong directions on the city roads. Whenever a vehicle will be driven in the wrong direction on...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-04-12 00:00:00
Can a people be superior to another? Confronting such a question is quite disquieting. It is not easy to agree on the criteria for determining a people's superiority. A particular people may have produced a very large number and proportionate...
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