UNITED NATIONS: Russia vetoed a Western-backed resolution condemning the Crimea referendum at a UN Security Council emergency vote Saturday but China abstained, isolating Moscow further on the Ukraine crisis. The draft resolution, which says Sunday's referendum would have no validity,...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is looking for a Crew Maintenance and Insurance (CMI) partner to resume its New York flights. But aviation experts think this step will financially damage the national flag carrier. Biman Managing Director Kevin Steele told bdnews24.com: “We...
An extended meeting of Awami League’s Dhaka city unit will be held at the party’s Bangabandhu Avenue office on Sunday. The meeting was convened to make a success the programmes taken to observe the birthday of Father of the Nation...
The 13th Social Business Design Lab was held at the Yunus Centre in the capital on Saturday with around 150 different organisations taking part in it. Innovators of six new social business plans presented their projects at the Design Lab....
Nilratan Halder | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
This is the time for trees to shed their leaves, this is also the time for new leaves and sprigs to sprout on them. Most of all, this is the time for flowers to run riot. Leaves coming off their...
Nehal Adil | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
Rain, flood, traffic disruption, that was the real scene in England this winter. The aristocratic Prime Minister, popularly known as Lord Cameron for his aristocratic behaviour cancelled his trip to Ramalla and Israel and moved in the flood affected areas...
Masum Billah | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
Police are an integral part of any modern and democratic state. Hence the relation between the police and citizens should be very friendly and mutually benefiting. To make people aware of the roles and responsibilities of police, their different units,...
Pamelia Khaled | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
"The more you get hurt the more you incur loss." (Tagore) There were many stories after the 'black night' of 25th March, 1971. Among them, I'm narrating a special one that might seem insignificant in comparison to the others, but...
Md Sazedul Islam | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
Shohag Sheikh (35), a carpenter by profession of No 1 Jagoti Colony of Kushtia Sadar upazila, had been feeling fever, dyspepsia and cold. Detected by Momtaj Begum, one of the Shastha Sebikas (community health volunteers appointed by BRAC), his sputum...
Fahmida Hashem | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
We recognise that increasing agricultural productivity and promoting good nutrition are deeply interrelated aspects of addressing hunger and poverty. In Bangladesh, nutritional deficiencies - in energy, vitamins, and minerals - are widespread, particularly among pregnant women and young children. Poor...
Syed Ejaz Ahsan | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
On June 06, 1997, a new sub-regional grouping was formed in Bangkok and named BIST-EC (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand Economic Cooperation). Myanmar attended the inaugural meeting as an observer and joined the bloc as a full member at...
Dipok Kumar Roy | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
As is practised all over the world, in most cases the securities and exchange commissions issue corporate governance guidelines for listed companies. Why? The reason is to ensure effective control on governance systems of listed companies for protecting public interest...
Locally developed software by all accounts has made a giant stride but it still has a long way to go. Information technology (IT) and software service providers have already reached a stage where their contribution in terms of saving for...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
Like all other countries, Bangladesh lives today in a global village. It is now just a matter of seconds that one can reach any part of the world either through cell phones or through the Internet. The Skype and the...
Shaikh Saleque | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
In its latest pro-active move on corporate social responsibility (CSR) of financial institutions, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed the latter to bring the poor and underprivileged section of the children under banking services. The central bank very recently issued instructions...
The garments sector has been playing a significant role in our economic development over the years. Despite having a huge number of manpower, this sector is facing a lot of problems due to the flaws in the connection of electric...
Bangladesh face two challenges in the World Twenty20 starting on Sunday afternoon. Firstly, to top the group to proceed to the Super Ten stage of the competition. And secondly, to avenge the drubbing they got against Afghanistan in the recently-held...
Sonali Bank Limited, one of the largest banks of the country, has been playing a significant role in the banking sector since its inception in 1972. Apart from serving the clients with more than 1200 branches around the country, this...
Shamsul Alam | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
One of the early proponents of international power and wealth redistribution ideology was President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania who mentioned: "In one world, as in one state, when I am rich because you are poor, and I am poor because...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
With the passage of time the developing block has been experiencing newer challenges. In fact after the recent financial turmoil - recession is over in many biggies but the impact of recession remains very much alive - the fundamental challenge...
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 14 (AFP): Malaysia said Friday it was dramatically expanding the already vast scope of its search for a missing passenger plane, admitting it was no closer to solving the agonising aviation mystery a week after the jet...
BAGHDAD, Mar 14 (AFP): Bombings in and around Baghdad Friday, including blasts near two markets, killed seven people, the latest in a year-long surge in violence that authorities have failed to quell. The bloodshed, at its highest level since 2008,...
QUETTA, Mar 14 (agencies): Bomb blasts killed 17 and wounded 31 people across Pakistan Friday. In Quetta police chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema said a vehicle carrying security forces appeared to have been the target of the attack killed 10, which...
LONDON, Mar14 (AFP): The United States and Russia on Friday launched a round of 11th-hour diplomacy just two days before Crimea votes to secede from Ukraine in a referendum that has sparked the biggest East-West showdown since the Cold War....
ANKARA, Mar 14 (AFP): Turkey warned Friday to retaliate "in kind" if a historic tomb that it controls inside war-torn Syria came under attack. "Any kind of attack, be it from the regime or radical groups ... will be retaliated...
Mumbai building collapse kills one, injures 3 MUMBAI, Mar 14: An apartment block collapsed in the Indian financial hub Mumbai Friday, killing one woman and injuring three other people in the latest in a series of deadly building cave-ins, authorities...
Awami League-backed chairman candidates won elections in 25 upazilas while BNP favourites in 21 upazilas and 7 of other parties at 11.35 pm Saturday in the third-phase polls in 81 upazilas held on Saturday. Earlier, the voting in the 81...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu Friday called for changing mindset towards women for establishing their rights in the society, reports BSS. "We have to establish women rights by ensuring their equal participation in all development sectors," the Minister said this...
Hosts Bangladesh made a perfect practice ahead of their first match of the ICC World Twenty20 against Afghanistan tomorrow (Sunday), beating Ireland by 44 runs in their 2nd and last official warm-up match at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium...
NEW DELHI, Mar 14 (AFP): International T20 cricket, struggling to gain a firm footing despite the growing popularity of domestic leagues, will break new ground when the fifth World Twenty20 opens in Bangladesh Sunday. Tests and one-dayers take precedence over...
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