LAHORE, Mar 14 (AFP): Pakistani cricketer Umar Akmal was Friday cleared in a traffic violation case after the police officer forgave him, saying he was a "national hero". The 23-year-old was arrested by Lahore police on February 1 for violating...
INDIAN WELLS, Mar 14 (AFP): Roger Federer kept his bid for a fifth Indian Wells ATP Masters title on track Thursday with a 7-5, 6-1 victory over Kevin Anderson. The 32-year-old Swiss great needed just 69 minutes to book his...
Toe injury puts Johnson in doubt for T20 SYDNEY, Mar 14: Mitchell Johnson is struggling to be fit for the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh with the Australian fast bowler suffering a toe infection stemming from a cut he picked up...
Taking a swipe at the ruling party men for what he said indulging in widespread vote fraud during the third phase of the upazila polls, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Saturday said Awami League has turned into a...
FE Report The demand of printers and photocopiers is still growing in Asia region despite the increasing of soft materials based activities. However, the demand is going down in developed countries gradually. Francis Chua, Sales Manager of Asia region of...
Traders at Swiss bank UBS made around 100 attempts to rig a key lending rate called Hibor, the region's financial regulator has said. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) found internal chat messages which contained "change requests" between 2006 and...
MUMBAI: An apartment block collapsed in the Indian financial hub Mumbai Friday, killing six people and injuring three others in the latest of a string of deadly building cave-ins, authorities said. Dozens of rescuers scoured the rubble in search of...
BNP staged demonstrations across the country protesting the hike in power tariffs Friday. The demonstrations were held in all the cities, district towns and upazila headquarters throughout the country. As part of the countrywide programmes, different thana BNP units brought...
Momtaz Uddin Ahmed | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
The readymade garments (RMG) industry holds an iconic status in Bangladesh's national economy, being the fastest growing (averaging between 15-20 per cent and rising up to 40 per cent in some years for two decades during 1990s and beyond) as...
S Iftikhar Murshed from Pakistan | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
The people of Pakistan have grown accustomed to soul-shattering tragedy, which has been their constant companion for more than a decade. The National Internal Security Policy 2013-2018 announced by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on February 26 admits that...
Nina Khrushcheva | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
In the summer of 1787, Catherine the Great of Russia set out to inspect the recent additions to her far-flung czardom, including the Crimean peninsula, annexed from the Ottoman Empire four years earlier. Catherine’s lover, Prince Grigory Potemkin, the governor-general...
LONDON: Gold prices struck six-month highs this week but copper futures tumbled to the lowest level in nearly four years on market concerns over slowing Chinese economic growth. Investors sought haven investments such as gold also because of the Ukraine...
The country is reportedly missing an opportunity to earn a substantial amount of money as the ministry of commerce is yet to make a decision on export of sand by private parties. One company, according to a report published in...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
The country's drug market has been marked by price edginess for at least a couple of years. This has been further aggravated by infiltration of spurious medicines. To make the matter even worse, the draft national drug policy submitted to...
Shahana Bilkis | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
The Power Development Board (PDB), Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) and Dhaka Electric Supply Company (Desco) proposed a tariff hike for retail consumers. The distributors have sought to increase prices for the sixth time in two years. Households consuming less...
The Dhaka City Corporation is planning to build a foot over-bridge at Shahbag in order to ensure safety of pedestrians. However, experience from other foot over-bridges in the city suggests that this may not be effective in ensuring safety of...
Music maestro AR Rahman has come to Bangladesh and it is indeed good news for the Bangladeshi music lovers. AR Rahman is a world famous music composer and he has been described as the world's most prolific and prominent composer...
Currency smuggling by a Biman pilot had received a good coverage by the media. He carried an unauthorised amount of Kuwaiti currency in an outbound flight from Dhaka. The pilot, by his vile deed, has shattered the image of the...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen's On Economic Inequality is a seminal work that stimulates rigorous studies of inequality. It is considered one of the most structured and constructive presentations of economic inequality which examines and experiments diverse instruments to explore...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 13 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop here today said substantial improvement of women entrepreneurship could play a vital role in ensuring women empowerment. They viewed that successful promotion of women entrepreneurship could be effective means of boosting their...
LONDON: Europe's main stock market indices closed mixed Friday, with the London's FTSE 100 sliding 0.40 per cent to 6,527.89 points. In Paris the CAC 40 shed 0.80 percent to 4,216.37 points, while the Dax 30 in Frankfurt gained 0.43...
Our Correspondent | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
MAGURA, Mar 13: A wholesaler syndicate is dominating over onion price in Magura. According to Agriculture Extension Department, Magura, a total of 1670 hectares of land was brought under onion cultivation in the district this year. A bumper production has...
GAIBANDHA, Mar 13 (BSS): Speakers at a function here on Wednesday stressed the need for protecting and preserving wild animals anyhow to have a better environment with bio- diversity. "Animal populations are in the verge of extinction due to different...
Another BSS report says: Organizers at a function here on Tuesday said bio-gas produced from domestic wastes is being supplied to 30 households in Segunbagicha area of Gaibandha Municipality for cooking purpose to have pollution free environment. "Besides, compost, an...
Bangladesh is going to assist the international community in tracing the Malaysian missing aircraft from Saturday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday directed the authorities concerned to assist the international community in the search operation for the missing Malaysian plane, PM’s...
Our Correspondent | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
JESSORE, Mar 13: A desperate mother allegedly killed her daughter's teaser at Bhekutia under Kotwali police station in Jessore Wednesday night. The dead was identified as Mofizur Rahman, 40, an inhabitant of a nearby village under Jessore sadar upazila and...
CHUADANGA, Mar 13 (UNB): Late blight disease has attacked potato plants on vast tracts of land in the district, causing a severe concern for the farmers after they experienced sharp fall in price of the item. The disease, marked by...
SYLHET, Mar 13 (UNB): Police recovered hanging body of a housewife from Niamatpur village in Dakkhin Surma upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Sumi Begum,32, wife of Jamal Uddin, a resident of the village. Sub-inspector Fazlur Rahman of...
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