Ekushey Granthamela is a source of inspiration for Bengali people. The fair has an important role in flourishing the thoughts and minds of the writers, publishers and new generations giving them right direction for future. Prime Minister said while inaugurating...
The Indian diplomat whose December arrest led to a major international dispute holds no immunity from US prosecution and should continue to faces charges of visa fraud, Manhattan federal prosecutors said in court papers filed Friday. Devyani Khobragade was arrested...
Executive Vice President, Unilever South Asia and MD and CEO of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) Sanjiv Mehta has arrived in Bangladesh on a four-day visit to chalk out company’s plan for 2014. During his stay in Bangladesh from Feb 1...
Fire broke out in a soap factory at Kosaitoli under Bangshal police station in Old Dhaka on Saturday evening. Fire Service headquarters sources said the fire broke out in the factory at about 5:55 pm. Nine fire fighting units went...
Recalling the contributions of Dr Aleem-Al-Razee, President of Bangla Academy Professor Emeritus Anisuzzaman Saturday said Dr Razee had spent his whole life to protect the country’s interest. “Dr Razee had played a special role in protecting the country’s interest. He...
Most of the 32 nations coming to the World Cup in Brazil have picked training bases near Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, with only a few venturing into the much hotter northeast or the colder south. With games to...
California's water agency has announced it may for the first time be unable to deliver water to local agencies, amid a worsening drought. Two-thirds of state residents and 1m acres (404,500 hectares) of farmland get part or all of their...
KARO: Fourteen people, including four schoolchildren, were killed Saturday after they were engulfed in scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung in its biggest eruption in recent days, officials said. Dark, searing clouds rolling down the mountain left...
Urging the government to stop extrajudicial killings, BNP on Tuesday alleged that the recent incidents of crossfire are part of the government’s ‘evil design’ to annihilate the opposition. “The opposition leaders and activists are being killed unlawfully after picking them...
BNP standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah Saturday said they want the 11th parliament polls to be held as soon as possible as per the will of the country’s people. “Many ministers are saying that we’re demanding mid-term polls. It’s...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s scheduled views-exchange meeting with engineers for Saturday night has been postponed for unavoidable reasons. “The BNP chairperson’s views-exchange meeting with engineers scheduled for Saturday night has been postponed,” the BNP chief’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has said that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be considered ‘dangerous’ for the country and constitution if she fails to provide specific explanation about militant and terrorist activities, grenade attacks that took place during her...
Calls for European Central Bank action to help protect the eurozone's fragile recovery have grown after the release of inflation and jobless data. Official figures showed that eurozone inflation fell to 0.7% in January, down from 0.8% in December and...
In the face of students’ agitation against increased fees and opening of evening programmes, Rajshahi University (RU) authorities on Saturday postponed its decisions in this regard. RU Vice Chancellor Prof Muhammad Mizanuddin made the announcement at a press conference at...
The BNP-led 19-party alliance has again changed its planned Suhrawardy Udyan rally shifting it to Monday from Sunday. The party has rescheduled the rally for Monday as the Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) of the second phase of Biswa Ijtema will...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
There are stories galore about smoking or the assorted means practised and prescribed for giving up the habit. Only rarely do people succeed in overpowering the urge to revert to the old ways. Many, however, are of the opinion that...
Arup Barua and Shidratul Moontaha Suha | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Earthquake is considered one of the most destructive and terrifying natural forces. The notion 'Earthquake' itself generates fear into human minds. Generally it occurs due to sudden transient motion of the ground which leads to release of elastic energy in...
Swadesh Roy | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
No nation can think of the kind of economic self-destruction that Bangladesh has done over the last three months. Fundamentalists and terrorists have planned and aided it to happen. It would not have been possible by them had they not...
ABM Ahsanullah | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
The University of California was founded in 1868. Its first campus is Berkeley, Oakland, widely known as one of the top university systems in the world. Besides Berkeley, there are nine other campuses established in the later years. They are...
Fuad Ahmed | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Tourism is one of the most promising and progressive forms of thriving factor to build up socio-economic balance sheet and image building mechanism in any country of the world. As a citizen of Bangladesh and Australia I believe I owe...
Nobel Peace Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus has urged the word business leaders to pursue the kind of business that does not exploit people and harm the planet. “There is a need for bringing human identity back to the business, defining...
UDON THANI, Jan 31 (AFP): In Thailand's wealthy capital, embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra rarely ventures out in public because of fears for her safety. But in much of the vast rural northeast, her billionaire family are heroes. The stark...
GENEVA, Jan 31 (AFP): Damascus will make "no concessions" in peace talks with the opposition, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said as a week of negotiations were wrapping up in Geneva. "Neither in this round, nor in the next will...
BANGUI, Jan 31 (AFP): Fighting in the capital of strife-torn Central African Republic has killed at least 30 people over the past three days, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. Thirty bodies have been collected from...
NEW DELHI, Jan 31 (AFP): US aviation authorities have downgraded India's safety ranking in a "disappointing" and "surprising" move that will hit air links between the countries, India's aviation minister said Friday. The US Federal Aviation Administration downgraded India after...
Syria must accelerate chemical arms shipments THE HAGUE, Jan 31: The world's chemical watchdog called Friday for Syria to "pick up the pace" in shipping out its chemical weapons stockpile after a key deadline was missed. "The need for the...
Babul Barman | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Stocks extended gaining streak for the fifth straight week that ended Thursday with turnover dropping slightly as optimistic investors remained on the buying spree. The week featured all five trading sessions. Among them market closed higher three trading sessions while...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Country's telecom regulator has opened 2.4 and 5.7 GHz band for providing internet service through Wi-Fi technology across the country. The regulator took the initiative to make available internet to the people at a cheaper rate in a bid to...
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