ABIDJAN, Feb 9 (AFP): Ivory Coast is winning the stripes of an African tiger with economic growth of nearly 10 per cent less than three years after a bloody crisis, but this performance depends on continued peace and stability. There...
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (Xinhua) : Russia's oil giant, Lukoil, has started negotiations with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to explore and develop oil and gas fields in the Caspian Sea, Press TV reported yesterday. Lukoil has expressed desire to...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
We have a serious problem and that has continued to grow. I am referring here to the unrelenting politicisation of government institutions. This has been unremitting for the last few decades and has affected transparency and accountability. It has had...
Mohammad Hasan in the third of his four-part article titled Human resource development in RMG factories | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
In many cases, owners recruit their relatives in important positions. They are less qualified than the professionals. Owners rely on their relative-employees' information to gather secrets about happenings in the organisation. Those relatives become shadow owners of the organisation. Genuine...
The new health minister, also a ruling party stalwart, has been talking tough since his appointment against dereliction of duties and responsibilities on the part of doctors and other irregularities in the health sector. He seems particularly serious about ensuring...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
Farmers in Bangladesh are known to be a resilient lot who have sound informal knowledge of what many tend to describe as 'agro economics'. Then why do they very often encounter problems over marketing of their produce? What troubles them...
Neil Ray | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
To be alone and adrift on a 24ft fibre-glass boat with an out-of-order engine in the Pacific ocean for about 13 months, by all accounts, is a superhuman feat. Jose Salvador Alvarenga, a man originally from El Salvador, who had...
Bangladeshi cricketers have finally brought some solace for the cricket lovers of our country by drawing the second and final Test match against Sri Lanka in Chittagong. It was an all-out effort from the Bangladesh National Cricket Team and the...
The United Arab Emirates has not been issuing any new working visa to the Bangladeshis since long and our government has failed to solve the problem. There is a huge demand for Bangladeshi workers in the UAE job market but...
Here in the USA we are aware that Sir Frank Peters has campaigned for a long time for school teachers to respect the verdict of Bangladesh High Court that has banned corporal punishment and for parents to demand that their...
Md. Jamal Hossain | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
The Financial Express published on January 31, 2014 an article titled Food grains import: Puzzling at first sight. The writer of the article argued that import of food grains might cause decline in the production of food grains such as ...
The BNP has alleged the government has turned Bangladesh into a death valley by killing and abducting its leaders and activists, reports bdnews24.com. "We want an end to this. We want the guarantee of normal deaths," BNP Joint Secretary General...
FE Report | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) Sunday sent notices to seven agencies seeking wealth information of the former state minister for water resources Md Mahbubur Rahman as part of the investigation into his alleged illegal wealth. The notices were sent requesting the...
FE Report | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Sunday called for immediate withdrawal of a recent remark by Jatiya Sangsad Chief Whip ASM Feroz, saying that such kind of statement is an alarming sign for democracy and good governance. Earlier at a reception in...
Senior nayeb-e-ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Maulana AKM Yusuf, who had been facing the trial of crimes against humanity during country's war of independence, died on Sunday of a cardiac arrest, half way through the trial at the argument phase, reports UNB....
GAZIPUR, Feb 9 (UNB): Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury Sunday alleged that BNP-Jamaat had used Bangladesh as a transit for arms smuggling as they have no patriotism. "It's been proved time and again that they (BNP-Jamaat) have no patriotism. They had...
The Election Commission (EC) wants to begin updating the electoral rolls in May to include those eligible to become voter this year, reports bdnews24.com. There is a provision to update the list in January every year but EC wants to...
Awami League (AL) Sunday informed the Election Commission (EC) that it has forged an alliance with six political parties to contest the elections to parliamentary seats kept aside for women, reports UNB. AL election conducting committee member Riazul Kabir Kawsar...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to sit with the leaders of Dhaka city BNP on Monday night in an apparent move to put the party's crucial unit in order through a major overhaul before launching a fresh movement, reports...
A two-day orientation programme for the first-time Members of Parliament (MPs) began in JS Bhaban Sunday, reports UNB. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury inaugurated the orientation programme with 50 MPs participating in it. The aim of the programme is to...
During his nine-year autocratic rule Hossain Mohammad Ershad could set his foot anywhere in the country he had in his mind, reports UNB. But he succeeded Sunday when he was allowed to sit in the club's lounge during a visit...
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations began across the country Sunday, reports UNB. This year, a total of 1,432,727 students under 10 educational boards, including one madrasah and one technical board, are appearing in the examinations from...
FE Report | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
The five-day 'Annual Research Review' of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) began Sunday with a vow to turn the country into a food grain exporting nation. Agriculture minister Begum Matia Chowdhury inaugurated the programme held at BRRI Auditorium in...
Claiming that there has been no extrajudicial killing in the country, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Sunday said a few people might have been accidentally killed in the joint forces' operation launched to hunt down listed criminals, reports...
The verdict of Ramna Batamul blast cases of 2001 is expected before Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year, about 13 years after the carnage that left 10 people dead and scores of others injured, reports BSS....
The 14th anniversary of death of Mawlana Muhammad Abdul Mazid will be observed today (Monday), said a press release. He was a teacher of Doulatpur Alia Madrasha in Khulna. He was born in Nolbunia of Galua Union under Rajapur Upazila...
JU Correspondent | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
The admission test routine of Jahangirnagar University (JU) under the academic session 2013-14 has been published on Saturday. Signed by deputy registrar Mohammad Ali the admission test will start from 16 February. A total of four lakh and 44 thousand...
Noted journalist and poet Fazal Shahabuddin passed away at his Khilgaon residence in the city at 10:45 am Sunday, reports BSS. He was 78. Shahabuddin had been suffering from old-age complications. He left behind his wife, two sons, a daughter...
UAP accords reception to faculties University of Asia Pacific (UAP) accorded a reception to newly appointed faculty members in the city Sunday. VC of UAP Professor Jamilur Reza Choudhury attended the reception as the chief guest, while former vice-chancellor of...
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