KABUL, Oct 11 (AFP): Opium production in Afghanistan is set to rise by nearly two-thirds this year, with farmers' revenues set to soar compared to last year's harvest blighted by disease, the United Nations said Tuesday. Ten years after the...
TAIPEI, Oct 11 (AFP): Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted Tuesday that further United States arms sales to Taiwan were needed as China continued with its ambitious military modernisation plans. Rumsfeld, who considers himself "a longtime friend of Taiwan",...
The silliness of an empty pageant was in evidence at the All Parties Conference (APC) convened by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani last September 29. The meeting should have promised justice based retribution, as mandated by the Quran, for the...
Imran Asif I had known him for just about the last one third of his life on earth. When he bid farewell to life on October 13, 2007, he had been through 96 seasons. I am on my 30th. Therefore,...
Fazle Rashid in New York Angered by Palestine's boldness to seek UN recognition as an independent an sovereign state the US lawmakers are forging ahead to cut the American financial assistance to Palestine. The US lawmakers have also threatened to...
World Sight Day will be observed today (Thursday) in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world for highlighting the problems of visually impaired people, reports UNB.The day an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on blindness, visual impairment and...
FE Report An English Language Fair, initiated by Robi and The Daily Star, kicked off in the city Wednesday, aiming at developing English language skills among the secondary school students across the country. The fair, titled 'Shafollo Ashbei', started at...
FE Report Experts Wednesday called upon the Bangladeshi physicians to create awareness about various vaccines among people as preventive measures which will help them save money and time. They also said immunisation has proven to be one of the most...
DU Correspondent The admission test of Dhaka University (DU) "Ka-unit" under science group for first year honours courses for academic year-2011-12 will be held tomorrow (Friday) at 10am. A total of 41,434 students will compete for admission to 1539 seats....
President M Zillur Rahman Wednesday observed that providing modern training on disaster preparedness to young and local people is important in disaster risk reduction, reports BSS. "Participation and cooperation of all concerned especially local people and the youth is imperative...
SHANGHAI, Oct 11 (AFP): Andy Roddick refocused after losing his cool Tuesday to reach the third round of the Shanghai Masters with a 7-6 (73), 7-5 win as top American Mardy Fish crashed out to Australian teen Bernard Tomic. Tenth...
THIMPHU, Oct 11 (AFP): Bhutan's king, an Oxford graduate and "prince charming of the Himalayas", is set to marry Thursday at what promises to be an emotional moment for the 700,000 adoring subjects of his isolated nation. Jigme Khesar Namgyel...
KABUL, Oct 11 (AFP): Opium production in Afghanistan is set to rise by nearly two-thirds this year, with farmers' revenues set to soar compared to last year's harvest blighted by disease, the United Nations said Tuesday. Ten years after the...
TAIPEI, Oct 11 (AFP): Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted Tuesday that further United States arms sales to Taiwan were needed as China continued with its ambitious military modernisation plans. Rumsfeld, who considers himself "a longtime friend of Taiwan",...
Mohammad Mufazzal The NBR will restore tax rebate facilities on investment in stocks and reduce tax on brokerage commission by 50 per cent in an effort to support the moribund stock market following deep concern expressed by state high-ups, officials...
FE Report The government Wednesday awarded two furnace oil-fired Independent Power Producer (IPP) plants of 108 megawatts (mw) each to two separate firms owned by ruling Awami League MP Md Aslamul Hoque. State-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has inked...
Munima Sultana The city's traffic gridlock is unlikely to improve to any marked extent even after inclusion of the 9.8 kilometre road in Hatirjheel and Begunbari areas, scheduled to be completed within next nine months, officials and experts said. They...
Jubair Hasan Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is now free from licence middlemen who used to fleece hundreds of people a day in the name of providing services like vehicle registration, fitness certificate and getting licence. The transport regulatory body...
Social Welfare Minister M Enamul Haq Mostafa Shaheed said Tuesday the government has undertaken a plan to declare the elderly people as 'golden citizens', reports BSS.The national identity cards of the elderly people would be inscribed with the words 'golden...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has directed the Education Ministry to take immediate steps to set up an e-library at Dhaka University (DU), reports UNB. The prime minister gave the directive while addressing the launching of the first-ever Bangladesh-made laptop,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Berlin on October 22 to attend the World Health Summit- 2011, reports UNB. She will deliver a keynote speech at the Summit on October 23. The World Health Summit under the motto...
LONDON, Oct 11 (bdnews24.com): Thirteen illegal Bangladeshi workers have been arrested in the last one week in the UK. Raid by UK Border Agency (UKBA) officers at some Bangladeshi-owned restaurants in Chalfont St Peter, Aberdeen, Hereford and Newcastle resulted in...
The concluding and certificate award ceremony of a two - week training course on 'Modern Technique of Public Relations, Media and Communication' organised by Bangladesh Institute of Journalism and Electronic Media (BIJEM) was held recently in the city, says a...
Speakers at a discussion called upon all irrespective of party affiliation to take a united stand on Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) issue for upholding country's independence and sovereignty. The speakers made the remarks at the discussion on 'Prevailing Situation in...
The police have detained nine activists of Jama'at-e-Islami's student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) from Dhaka's Pallabi area when they were holding a meeting on a boat. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of the Pallabi police KM Shahabuddin told bdnews24.com, "The ICS activists...
RU Correspondent RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Oct 10: The students of the Rajshahi University (RU) of management department observed the World Postal Day through an exceptional programme on the university campus Sunday. To recall the traditional way for communication they posted more...
KABUL, Oct 9 (AFP): An Afghan woman MP was in a critical condition Sunday, her doctor said, after entering the eighth day of a hunger strike to protest against her expulsion from parliament over alleged vote fraud. Semin Barakzai, one...
SYDNEY, Oct 9 (AFP): A female soldier serving with Australian forces in Afghanistan was allegedly sexually assaulted on a military base, officials said Sunday, just days before the release of a report into defence abuse cases. The soldier, whose rank...
Shamsher Chowdhury There is politics everywhere. Politics at home, politics at cross-roads, politics in educational institutions, politics in the business community, politics of the rich and the poor, politics in the media and so on and so forth. The truth...
A M M Anisul Awwal Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2007 shows that the country has undergone a considerable decline in fertility from 6.3 births per woman in 1971-75 to approximately 2.7 births per woman in 2007. Bangladesh Maternal...
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