Rice cultivation in many northwestern districts have long been facing greater difficulties for inadequate irrigation during the dry or Boro season due to the depletion of groundwater table, reveal some recent surveys, according to a news agency. This depletion of...
Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan), a non-government organisation, Friday alleged that the Election Commission does not exercise its authority to curb vote rigging and anomalies to ensure a fair election. Sujan, working on good governance, also alleged that the commission lost...
Defending their party chief Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Zia’s assertions, BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah Friday described how late Ziaur Rahman was the ‘first president’ of the country. Ziaur Rahman was virtually the ‘president’ of...
Southwest China’s Yunnan Province Governor Li Jiheng arrives in the city Saturday on a three-day visit to discuss how cooperation in the areas of connectivity, trade, agriculture, tourism, energy and education can further be strengthened with Bangladesh. He will lead...
Around 7,000 chickens infected with Avian Influenza, commonly known as bird flu, were culled at a government poultry farm in Jessore Thursday night. District Livestock Officer Abdur Razzak said they had informed the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police of...
Russia is stepping up public diplomacy to make a "comeback" in Bangladesh as it is doing in other South Asian countries. Russian ambassador in Dhaka Nikolaev Alexander said Friday the relationship between the two countries was experiencing “a renaissance now”...
South Africa captain Faf Du Plessis and Sri Lanka skipper Dinesh Chandimal have been banned for one game at the World Twenty20 after committing their second over-rate offences in 12 months. Both teams were one over short of their target...
The United States has sent back 20 Bangladeshi fugitives hiding in that country in the past five years. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokeswoman Nicole Navas told bdnews24.com Thursday that they had been arrested and handed over to the...
Police have recovered 75 crude bombs and some 1,500 sticks at Chhagalnaiya Upazila, in Feni district, Friday, three days before the fifth round of the Upazila Parishad election. The law enforcers recovered the crude bombs during a raid in storehouse...
Liton Chandro Sarkar | 2014-03-28 00:00:00
Due to declining profit margins and capacity constraints in China, investors are looking at other lower-cost countries for making investment in ready-made garment (RMG) industry, and producing and sourcing garment products. Bangladesh's apparel exports could triple by 2020 as the...
Nina Khrushcheva writing for Reuters | 2014-03-28 00:00:00
Now that Russia President Vladimir Putin has swallowed Crimea, the question becomes: What if the peninsula doesn't satisfy his appetite for new Russian territory? What if the only thing that will satiate his hunger for power is the goulash known...
RIYADH: US President Barack Obama arrived Friday in Riyadh for talks with Saudi King Abdullah as mistrust fuelled by differences over Iran and Syria overshadows a decades-long alliance between their countries. Obama arrived in the Saudi capital from Italy, and...
More than three months ago when the Pangaon inland container terminal (ICT) was inaugurated, there were reasons to feel good that finally a viable option was available for movement of merchandise to, and from, the Chittagong port. But since then,...
Md Mizanoor Rahman | 2014-03-28 00:00:00
Someone asked Rabindranath Tagore to correct his famous song line 'Who'll break the key to take me out of home', arguing that it should be the 'lock' and not the 'key'. If the key is broken, how could one unlock...
Shahana Bilkis | 2014-03-28 00:00:00
Tourism is considered a major foreign exchange earning industry in all developing countries like Bangladesh. It is also considered the single largest industry in the developed world. Bangladesh is a land of natural beauty. Tourism is yet to make remarkable...
We are indeed glad to see the people of our country setting a new record of singing our national anthem. Over 250,000 people sang the national anthem in the National Parade Square on our Independence Day. It was a beautiful...
In the Super Ten of T-20 World Cup, the Tigers paled against their opposition, West Indies. We think the Tigers have stopped enjoying the game. So, their natural game is not flourishing. For once the Tigers need to forget about...
The law and order situation in the country is getting out of control day by day. Every day, we hear people being killed in various places of our country. Mother and daughter were killed in the hands of miscreants in...
Nazir Ahmed | 2014-03-28 00:00:00
The Oxford dictionary defines the term 'perception' as "the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses." The term has distinct meaning or essence in psychology, medical science and in other areas. Whatever meaning and essence...
FE Report | 2014-03-28 00:00:00
The stock market edged marginally up Thursday for the second running session with turnover remained sluggish, as optimistic investors took position in lucrative stocks. The market opened with a strong momentum and the positive trend continued till the market closure...
LONDON: Europe's main stock market indices closed higher in Friday's trading session, with London's FTSE 100 up 0.41 per cent to 6,615.58 In Paris, the CAC 40 rose 0.74 per cent to 4,411.26 points, while the DAX 30 in Frankfurt...
FE Report | 2014-03-28 00:00:00
The government has awarded 20 non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) with Commercially Important Person (CIP) status for their outstanding contribution to sending remittances to the country. Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (EWOE) Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain distributed the CIP cards among the...
US President Barack Obama has urged Russia to "move back its troops" on Ukraine's border and lower tensions. Russia is believed to have massed a force of several thousand troops close to Ukraine's eastern frontier, according to a news agency....
FE Report | 2014-03-28 00:00:00
Rupali Bank Ltd management has put thrust on finding out good borrowers to properly utilise the loans sanctioned to the entrepreneurs. "With rising cost of deposits and opening of new branches along with the recruitment of new human resources, there...
India roared into the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 with a eight-wicket demolition of hosts Bangladesh in a Super-10 group two match in Dhaka Friday. Leg-spinner Amit Mishra claimed 3-26 as India restricted Bangladesh to 138-7 and then surpassed the...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-03-28 00:00:00
The government's failure to lure investments worth US$1.5 billion to implement two important projects - installation of a new crude oil refinery and a single point mooring - is increasing fuel import and electricity generation costs, said sources. Fuel import...
The export of primary commodities overall gained slightly higher growth than the manufactured goods in the first half (July-December) of the current fiscal (2013-14) though major manufactured goods like RMG, leather and leather products fared better during the period, according...
ICAB president new director of CSE Mr. Showkat Hossain FCA has been nominated by the Government as Independent Director of the Chittagong Stock Exchange recently. Showkat Hossain is also President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and...
Direct bus and minibus services from Dhaka’s Mohakhali to Tangail and Sirajganj resumed Friday evening after a two-day suspension following a dispute over the plying of buses without route permits, according to a news agency. Bus and minibus operations on...
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