NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Business Standard): Pakistan has emerged as a leading market for Indian tea, particularly the CTC variety of black tea, with India exporting around 20 million tonne of the beverage to the neighbouring country in 2011. The...
Experts at a sub-regional workshop in the city Tuesday stressed the importance of concerted efforts of all countries to alleviate poverty from the world, including Bangladesh, reports UNB. "Poverty is not the problem of any particular country . it's a...
NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Business Standard): Amid concerns of a slowdown, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said the Indian economy will soon revert to a higher growth trajectory. The present downturn is only temporary, Mukherjee said in his address at...
BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters): Gold exchanges in China outside of two in Shanghai are to be banned, authorities said in a statement released on Tuesday. Gold exchanges have mushroomed across China, from the northern port city of Tianjin to Guangxi...
TOKYO, Dec 27 (AFP): Tokyo on Tuesday eased a decades-old self-imposed ban on arms exports, paving the way for Japanese firms to participate in multinational weapons projects. In a move intended to bolster the domestic arms industry and reduce national...
KIEV, Dec 27 (Reuters): Ukraine will protect its national interests as it tries to negotiate cheaper Russian gas supplies, Energy Minister Yuri Boiko said on Tuesday. "President (Viktor Yanukovich) will never give up national interests; this has become clear to...
BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters): China took a further step on Tuesday toward ending its dependence on US satellites to provide navigation and positioning services with the start of trial operations of its homegrown Beidou system. China started a drive to...
The remittance sent by Bangladeshi expatriates marked a 9.25 per cent rise in the current year compared to 1.4 per cent in 2010, said a report of RMMRU, a research organisation at Dhaka University, reports UNB. President of Refugee and...
HANOI, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) : Vietnam harvested a bumper rice crop this year, with the ever highest record of 41.5 million tons of paddy, 1.5 million tons higher than last year, which helped secure the country's both domestic food requirement...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27 (ANN): The export of traditional products increased by over 20 per cent to US$4.367 billion during the first five months of the current financial year from US$3.633 billion over the same period last year. The export of...
COLOMBO, Dec. 27 (Xinhua): Sri Lanka is ending 2011 with positive growth in tourism and remittances, according to the latest Central Bank statistics released on Tuesday. For the first 11 months of 2011, earnings from tourism grew at a healthy...
FHM Humayan Kabir The Railway Ministry has sought an additional allocation of Tk 9.0 billion in development funds from the government with a view to setting up some new tracks and upgrading transport services, officials said Monday. The amount sought...
BENAPOLE, Dec 27 (UNB): At least seven vehicles were vandalized as indefinite transport strike in Jessore and Narail districts entered into second day Tuesday. Jessore and Narail District Bus Owners Association and Bangladesh Paribahan Sangstha Sramik Samity jointly called the...
Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Dec 27: Speakers at a round-table Monday urged the government to preserve cent per cent national interest in making any transit or trans-shipment agreement with India. They pointed out that the country has many unresolved issues with...
SYLHET, Dec 27 (UNB): At least 50 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Palpur village in Chhatak upazila Monday. Locals said there was a long-standing enmity between Joynal Abedin and Nur Mia over establishing supremacy...
NATORE, Dec 27 (BSS): Khondaker Abu Ali, a veteran politician and organizer of Liberation War in 1971, died of old age complication at his Palpara residence of the town last night at the age of 80. Elderly politician Ali, a...
Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Dec 27: A village product fair in Nilphamari was held at the Nilphamari Govt. High School ground, arranged by BRIF, Inter Co-operation and some other NGOs of the district. The fair was inaugurated by Nilphamari Municipality Mayor...
A three-day long health camp was held at ASA Health Complex at Chunarughat in Habiganj district from 22 to 24 December jonintly oranised by ASA and Gonosasthya Kendra, says a press release. Md. Taufiqual Islam Choudhury, direcrtor, ASA, inaugaurated the...
Our Correspondent HABIGANJ, Dec 27: About 30 thousand and 32 tuberculosis patients have been given treatment since 1995 in Habiganj district, National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Bangladesh (NATAB) Habiganj district unit informed the journalists at a views exchange meeting Monday. Sources...
NARSINGDI, Dec 27 (UNB): Two sisters allegedly committed suicide under the wheels of a running train reportedly over frustration in Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Khuki Begam, 45, and Shilpi Begam, 20, both unmarried and...
MEHERPUR, Dec 27 (UNB): Two people were killed and 10 others injured as a truck hit a human hauler at Ujalpur Shahji Para crossing in Monohorpur village in sadar upazila on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Liton, 23, son...
BAGERHAT, Dec 27 (UNB): The death of a Khulna University student in a road accident triggered angry protest by KU students in KU campus on Khulna-Satkhira highway this (Tuesday) afternoon. Earlier Sheikh Hadiul Islam, 1st year student of Forest Wood...
Nasimon driver's body recovered The body of a Nasimon (human hauler) driver was recovered from a pond at Baraipara beside Sariakandi-Chandanbaisha road in the town Monday. The deceased was identified as Reza Mandal, 35, son of Muja Mandal of Baraikandi...
NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (agencies): The Indian government faced off against angry opposition parties and a popular hunger-striking activist Tuesday as it sought to push a divisive anti-corruption bill through parliament. Parliament met for a special three-day session devoted to...
DAMASCUS, Dec 27 (agencies): An Arab League observer mission met the governor of Syria's flashpoint Homs province on Tuesday at the start of a hard-won mission to oversee a deal on ending nine months of bloodshed. "The Arab League observers'...
SEOUL, Dec 27 (AFP): North Korea was Tuesday preparing a massive ceremonial farewell to late leader Kim Jong-Il as it strove to strengthen a new personality cult around his youthful son and successor Jong-Un. The secretive state has so far...
WASHINGTON, Dec 27 (Reuters): The head of the US Central Command is urging Pakistan to share a map of its facilities and installations near the Afghan border to help avert episodes like the one that killed 24 Pakistani forces last...
British queen's husband leaves hospital LONDON, Dec 27: Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip leaves hospital Tuesday, four days after having been rushed in for heart surgery, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said. "His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh will...
The final round of the Meizan National Kabaddi begins today (Wednesday) at the Kabaddi Stadium in the city with participation of champions and runner-up teams of the zonal round, reports UNB. Kabaddi Federation Vice President KM Akhter Hamid will formally...
Title aspirants Bangladesh Army cagers were in impressive form as they drubbed Bangladesh Police by 107-40 points in the lone match of the Citycell Victory Day Basketball Tournament at the Dhanmondi Basketball Gymnasium Tuesday, reports BSS. The winners were off...
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