LONDON: Europe’s main stock markets rebounded Wednesday after two days of losses as optimistic investors eyed the upcoming US results season, dealers said. London’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.68 per cent to 6,635.61 points, while in Paris the CAC 40 added...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has re-entered the international bond market after a seven-year gap, the finance ministry said Wednesday, raising $2 billion to boost dwindling foreign exchange reserves and shore up the rupee. "The transaction represents the largest ever international bond offering...
Polls-related political turmoil has cost Bangladesh’s economy a total value added loss of $1.4 billion in the 2013-14 fiscal, the World Bank (WB) has said. It has also projected a 5.4-per cent GDP growth rate in FY 2014, but says...
Dhaka Education Board Wednesday night postponed the HSC examination scheduled for Thursday. Board chairman Prof Taslima Begum told UNB that the authorities postponed the English second paper examination and that of Diploma in Business Studies (DIBS) under the board for...
KIEV, Apr 8 (Reuters): Police detained 70 pro-Moscow protesters occupying a regional administration building in eastern Ukraine overnight, but others held out in a standoff in two further cities in what Kiev says is a Russian-led plan to dismember the...
With legal cases against her mounting, embattled Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded on Tuesday for fair and proper treatment from the national anti-corruption commission and Thailand's Constitutional Court, reports Reuters. Thailand's political crisis looks set to enter a new,...
YANGON, Apr 8 (AP) Severe shortages of food, water and medical care for Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar are part of a long history of persecution against the religious minority that could amount to "crimes against humanity," a U.N. human...
SIBI, Apr 8, (AFP): A bomb blast on a train in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Baluchistan killed at least 13 people and injured 40 others on Tuesday, officials said, with the death toll feared to rise. No one has...
Iran, 6 powers seek to narrow nuclear differences VIENNA, Apr 8: Negotiators for Iran and six world powers on Tuesday focused for the first time on the concrete shape of a deal meant to result in long-term curbs on Tehran's...
M. G. Quibria and Barkat-e- Khuda | 2014-04-09 00:00:00
These days there is much talk among pundits and policy-makers in the country about the impending demographic dividend in Bangladesh. What is missing in much of the discussion, however, is clarity about the concept itself, and the realisation that there...
Reaz Islam | 2014-04-09 00:00:00
Over the past decade, Bangladesh economy enjoyed favourable economic environment and grew at approximately 6.0 per cent with tolerable inflation. Major economic indicators like gross domestic product (GDP), exports and imports have tripled in the last ten years; industrialisation and...
One of the best possible ways of combating corruption in a country known to have earned the infamy of high prevalence of graft is to ensure adequate punishment to the corrupt elements through due legal process. And it is the...
Wasi Ahmed | 2014-04-09 00:00:00
It is not just the 'obsessive' environmentalists but lately common people all over the country are also concerned about the unabated manner in which brick makers are expanding their domain. Slender chimneys releasing thick clouds of smoke are the most...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-04-09 00:00:00
The World Health Day this year brought into sharp focus a set of diseases that are water-borne. In a country like Bangladesh which is dotted with countless rivers, rivulets and canals full of water, the incidence of such diseases is...
The Social Progress Index Report-2014, published by Washington based non-profit organisation, Social Progress Imperative, ranked Bangladesh 99th among the 132 countries. It is an achievement in the sense that Bangladesh is able to surpass India (102) and Pakistan (124) losing...
Recently, the prices of essentials have gone up and it is suffocating for the low and middle income group of people. We always see the prices of essentials go up on silly excuses. Many people think that businessmen are trying...
My heart sinks to a low whenever I read about corporal punishment to children. The feeling was no different, recently, when I read the report by Sir Frank Peters about many dangers of hitting our children. The danger is not...
RAJSHAHI, Apr 8 (BSS): Officials and experts are expecting an excellent mango production as tender mangoes are being formed now under favourable climatic condition so far everywhere in Rajshahi and Chapainawabgon districts. The local and indigenous variety mangoes are expected...
KHULNA, Apr 8 (UNB): Two suspected robbers were killed and two others injured in a lynch-mob attack at Putimari village in Dumuria upazila on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Mustakin Gazi, 26, son of Moksed alias Rifle Moksed of...
Our Correspondent | 2014-04-09 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Apr 8: Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) Bangladesh launched a four-year term Reading Enhancement for Advancing Development (READ) project in Rangpur Monday noon. USAID has launched the project in the district with the technical cooperation by 'Save the Children...
Our Correspondent | 2014-04-09 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Apr 8: A rally and discussion meeting was held arranged by the civil surgeon's office and Shelter Social Welfare Organisation (SSWO) Monday morning in Jhenidah. With the slogan, "Keep Mosquitoes and Flies away: Be Free from Diseases'', the rally...
SUNAMGANJ, Apr 8 (UNB): A housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband over a family feud at Balighat village under Sreepur (South) union of Tahirpur upazila on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Reshma,35, wife of Abdus...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Apr 8 (UNB): Police recovered the slaughtered body of an unidentified man from Haripur area in the district town on Monday morning. Sarwar Jahan, sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station, said locals spotted the body of the man, aged around...
NAOGAON, Apr 8 (BSS): A farmer was killed and nine others were injured in a road accident at Jabai-Fakir crossing under Sapahar upazila of the district on Monday evening. The deceased was identified as Sahir Uddin, 60, of Naupara village...
NETRAKONA, Apr 8 (UNB): A court here on Tuesday sentenced a man to death and four others to life term imprisonment for killing a college student in 2009. The condemned convict was identified as Polash Khan, son of late Mafiz...
Our Correspondent | 2014-04-09 00:00:00
CHUADANGA, Apr 8: A 3-daylong Agriculture and Tree fair began under the banner of 'Gachh Lagiye Bharbo Desh Toyri Korbo Shukher Poribesh' with great enthusiasm like every year Tuesday morning in Chuadanga Sadar Upazila office premises of the district headquarter. ...
FE Report | 2014-04-09 00:00:00
The government has at last approved the costly Ghorasal 365-megawatt (MW) power plant, which will be built on Chinese buyers' credit. Presided over by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) Tuesday in...
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