CHENNAI HYDERABAD, Dec 10 (Business Standard): With China, Brazil and India becoming the growth centres for aluminium-based products, the demand for primary aluminium is set to reach 75 million tonne by 2020, according the International Aluminium Institute (IAI), a UK-based...
Bangladesh expects to earn 30 per cent more foreign currency through software export compared to the amount the sector fetched last year as ICT is growing in line with the government's Vision 2021, officials and ICT business sources said, reports...
Yasir Wardad Reopening of three potato flakes and starch factories is set to use nearly 0.6 million tonnes of potato annually, which could ensure better prices for farmers. The industrial units can also fetch nearly $50 million per annum in...
Badrul Ahsan Volatility in exchange rate, high transportation cost and increased price of ingredients have pushed prices of all types of bakery items further up by around 15 per cent over the last one and a half months, sector insiders...
Hit hard by gas crisis, industries in Savar industrial belt have been counting huge losses in two ways-additional spending on liquid fuel and paying the minimum mandatory charge to Titas 'without having the gas supply', reports UNB. According to industry...
The government should immediately put emphasis on sustainable agriculture considering the effects of light, soil nutrients and different dimensions of soil utilisation to ensure the country's food security, according to an expert. "We should explore long-term sustainable technology to ensure...
The 32nd annual general meeting (AGM) of Jute Spinners Limited has approved 20 per cent dividend for the year 2010-2011. The AGM was held in the city Saturday, said a press release. Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the...
COLOMBO, Dec 10 (Xinhua): International market research company Nielsen expressed optimistic views on 2012 economic progress in Sri Lanka, noting that rapid growth and consumer spending would be seen. Nielsen, launching its 2012 Outlook this weekend, remarked upon the aggressively...
MOSCOW, Dec 10 (agencies): At least 20,000 people have thronged into a Moscow square to protest against alleged electoral fraud and against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party. In an unusual concession to opposition supporters, police gave permission...
KOLKATA, Dec 10 (AFP): Indian police were Saturday investigating the cause of a fire that killed 90 people in a hospital in Kolkata when poisonous fumes spread from the blaze in the building's basement. Patients were lowered down the outside...
MANILA, Dec 10, (AFP): A four-seater cargo plane crashed onto a Philippine slum Saturday, sparking a fire that killed 11 people including two children and left at least another 20 injured, officials said. Rescuers recovered the burned bodies of nine...
Agreement on new measures to combat global warming appears within reach at the UN climate talks in South Africa, reports BBC. Draft documents issued overnight appear to address the concerns of all parties. If they are adopted when official negotiations...
DAMASCUS - World powers piled pressure on Syria to allow observers to monitor spiralling deadly violence as activists condemned rights violations on Saturday's anniversary of International Human Rights Day. Activists said 41 civilians were killed Friday in flashpoint cities across...
Appeals for calm after disputed DR Congo election There have been appeals for calm in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the victory of President Joseph Kabila in disputed elections. Main opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi has rejected official results and...
A couple of weeks back I was watching a programme on one of the most reputed private television channels of Bangladesh; the programme was actually aired on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha. It was a drama about some teenage students of...
Bangladesh is a small country but has a huge population. Most people here live below the poverty line and cannot, therefore, afford to educate their children. Many poor children either drop out of school just after a few years or...
KUSHTIA, Dec 10 (BSS): At night on March 25 in 1971, a 170- strong Pakistan army team equipped with tanks and other heavy weapons took position at Kushtia Zila School, Police Lines and Aruapara areas and conducted massacres there. Besides,...
Our Correspondent NATORE, Dec 10: The people of Natore district and adjoining areas urged upon the government to take appropriate measures to convert the Natore TV sub-relay and transmission centre into a full-fledged TV studio. The Natore TV centre was...
Our Correspondent KHULNA, Dec 10: International Anti-Corruption Day-2011 was observed in Khulna as elsewhere in the country in a befitting manner on Friday. Elaborate programmes were chalked out in observance of the day. The programme included a colourful rally on...
GOPALGANJ, Dec 10 (UNB): Two people were killed and 35 others injured as a bus plunged into a road side ditch at Ratoil in Kashiani upazila on Dhaka-Khulna highway Friday night. The deceased were identified as bus helper Sohrab, 22,...
Our Correspondent NARSINGDI, Dec 10: Jatiya Party Chairman and former President Hossain Mohammad Ershad MP said Jatiya Party and its front organisation with help of people will resist Tapaimukh Dam works at any cost. Ershad was addressing a Road March...
A Correspondent BHAIRAB, Dec 10: The establishment of an industrial estate at Bhairab has become imperative to accommodate the new entrepreneurs of Bhairab river port town who are seeking facilities to set up new industries for a long time. About...
CHUADANGA, Dec 10(BSS): An Abasan Project was inaugurated at village Notidanga under Alamdanga upazila of the district yesterday. A total of 160 poor and rootless families of Baradi under Alamdanga upazila of the district have been rehabilitated in the project....
KHULNA, Dec 10 (UNB) - A firewood trader was shot dead by pirates at a canal in Muchir Dowani area of Sundarbans in Koyra upazila early Friday. The deceased was identified as Jahangir Hossain, 35, son of Shahidul Sarder of...
RANGPUR, Dec 10 (BSS): A large number of children took part in a human chain and rally on the local Press Club premises yesterday demanding immediate trial and execution of the accused war criminals. Rangpur unit of Bangabandhu Shishu Kishore...
DINAJPUR, Dec 10 (UNB): A mobile court here on Friday sentenced a young man to one year imprisonment for sexually harassing a schoolgirl. The convict was identified as Raju, 24, son ofAzizur Rahman Laltu of Barakul village in Sadar upazila....
GOPALGANJ, Dec 10 (UNB): Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested two people including a jail guard along with 132 pieces of yaba tablets from the district jail here Saturday morning. They were identified as jail guard Khorshedur Rahman, 32, and...
OSLO, Dec 10 (AFP): Liberia's president, a Liberian and a Yemeni activist receive the Nobel Peace Prize Saturday for demonstrating how women facing war and oppression can shed the mantle of victimhood and lead the way to peace and democracy....
China has begun joint patrols on the Mekong River with three other countries in the region to enhance security, after a series of attacks, reports BBC. The joint patrols started Saturday morning, China's state media reported. Personnel from Thailand are...
CHICAGO, Dec 10 (AFP): All guns will be aimed at former House speaker Newt Gingrich as he works to cement his lead for the Republican presidential nomination at a debate in the key first voting state of Iowa on Saturday....
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