Jubair Hasan and Yasir Wardad Thousands of homebound people faced untold sufferings Friday due to inordinate delay in getting their transports, specially buses and trains, and severe traffic congestion on the country's key highways. A visit to various stations and...
Syful Islam Dhaka and Moscow are unlikely to sign a shipping deal on establishing direct shipping link during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Russia visit this month for dearth of ships, officials said Thursday. "Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has a very...
ATHENS(Agencies): Greece has dropped its plan to hold a controversial referendum on the country's euro zone membership, which had threatened to plunge the bloc into a crisis, the country's finance ministry said on Friday. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos made the...
CANNES, Nov 4 (Agencies): G20 leaders in Cannes have ended their summit with a plan to boost growth and rebalance the global economy. The ongoing eurozone debt crisis has dominated the summit. The leaders of world biggest economic powers also...
FHM Humayan Kabir The projects, to be supported by the US$ 1.0 billion Indian credit, are facing implementation delays as the government agencies concerned have failed to start their execution work, despite the approval of 13 projects by Delhi, officials...
BNP has demanded a clear explanation from Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina and her government about the non-deployment of army in the October 30 Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) election, reports UNB. The party alleged that the PM has violated the...
NARSINGDI, Nov 4 (UNB): Two cases were filed early Friday with Bhairab GRP thana accusing over 500 unnamed people of torching 10 bogies (compartments) of a train Wednesday in protest against the killing of poura mayor Lokman Hossain. Promising Awami...
Our Correspondent NARSINGDI Nov 4: Narsingdi district AL organized a meeting in protest against the recent killing of Narsingdi municipality mayor Lokman Hossain at Narsingdi Zilla Awami League office premises on Friday at 4.00 pm. District AL president Advocate Ahadozzaman...
BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia will exchange her Eid-ul-Azha Eid greetings with a cross section of people, including foreign diplomats, at Ladies' Club in the city on the Eid Day, reports BSS. BNP sources...
SIRAJGANJ, Nov 4 (BSS): Khorshed Alam (34), a listed criminal and outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) Lal Pataka member was killed in a crossfire between Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and his cohorts at Char-Tangrail village under Kamarkhand Upazila here...
Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives and Awami League (AL) General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said he is happy about the death of the former Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The LGRD minister said this at a discussion in the city...
Deputy leader of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) and Awami League (AL) presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury Friday extended her warmest greetings and felicitations to the countrymen on the occasion of the holy Eid-ul-Azha, reports BSS. In a message, she urged...
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan on Friday asked the authorities concerned to complete construction of walkway and 'Eco-Park and Amusement Centre' on the bank of river Buriganga, reports UNB. He also directed for completing the work on time by maintaining the...
FE Report Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor, First Lady of Malaysia, has joined the Council of Patrons of Asian University for Women (AUW), said a release Thursday. The First Lady's engagement as AUW patron paves the way for greater collaboration...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Nov 4: In a rare gesture of charity a local lawmaker started selling a good quantity of essential commodities at half the market price to help the poor people of his constituency to celebrate Eid festival. MA...
Land Minister Rezaul Karim Hira said in Jamalpur Friday the government is committed to ensuring food security for the people, particularly the downtrodden, reports BSS. He said the government is working relentlessly for the improvement of the lifestyle of poor...
The government Friday said the apprehension expressed in a report published in a section of the press about the possibility of Bangladesh's expulsion from the Commonwealth is 'unrealistic and baseless,' reports BSS. "It is sad and unexpected that a section...
Finally, the Himalayan nation of Nepal has been able to break the long stalemate stemming from the fate of the former Maoist guerrillas as the lawmakers succeeded in clinching a deal cutting across political divide. They have decided that a...
Russia stood Thursday on the verge of ending its tortuous 18-year wait to get into the World Trade Organisation after accepting a Swiss-mediated deal that removed reservations by its arch-foe Georgia. The decisive breakthrough with the last holdout nation came...
continuous battle, just as creating a vibrant brand for "Bangladesh" is, writes Mansura Akter Given the reality of negative image of Bangladesh (BD)), which is causing us huge financial loss as we are not getting potential level of foreign direct...
The use and abuse of chemical pesticides in Bangladesh and other developing countries can cause a great deal of needless misery which could easily be removed through sustained awareness-raising activities. And it was reassuring to find that the World Bank...
A cooperative programme, reportedly focused on helping street people, was recently launched at Dhaka's Osmani Udyan. At its inaugural function, the Dhaka Tokai Ghar Cooperative Samity Ltd, as the initiative calls itself, opened a 'labour bazaar', avowedly to facilitate employment...
There can be no disagreement that the quality of the government's expenditures is critical. With the borrowings spent more on the productive sectors, the same helps increase the gross domestic product (GDP) and also plays a part in taming inflation....
Money speaks, and people with money are not likely to listen to poor powerless protesters. But if all the protesters get together to form some sort of union and put pressure on the rich, through programmes like work stoppages, then...
The right-wing government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has angrily denied charges of racism against its coalition partners. Such accusations have been made in a recent UN report on xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. The rebirth of racist and xenophobic...
Our leaders need to maintain a level of decency while addressing public meetings and other forums and making comments on personal matters of others. Presently, it is far from desirable. The deliberations do not bespeak of a leader of any...
Bangladesh could largely avoid the effects of the first global recession in 2008 because of its relatively insular position in the global economy or less linkages with the global economy. But whether it can go on remaining unaffected when another...
Jubair Hasan Transactions at the makeshift cattle markets in the city was dull Friday as most buyers found the prices of sacrificial animals 'high'. The traders had expected a good response from the buyers on the day, the weekly holiday....
Aiming to make the country's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) an effective force to propel social and economic development, the government is planning a major clean-up in this sector with revoking licences of wrongdoers and inactive ones. The regulator of this sector...
Nizam Ahmed Management of nuclear waste from the planned Rooppur nuclear power plants is most unlikely to become any major problem, official experts said on Friday refuting the concern of certain environmentalists. The nuclear power plants may turn out to...
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