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...
Mohammad Tareq Hasan Bangladesh is a disaster prone country. Natural calamities like cyclone, tornado, tidal surge, riverbank erosion, flood and drought are very frequent here. The natural climatic events cause human sufferings and create human conditionalties that the victims cannot...
M Mizanur Rahman With the slogan 'Making Children and Young People Partners in Disaster Risk Reduction', the International Day for Disaster Reduction has been observed across the world this year. The main motive is to involve the young generation in...
Richard Bourne The real issue before the Commonwealth summit in Perth, Australia, is whether its 54 member governments want this body to play a more important role in the world, or whether they will be accomplices in its continuing marginalisation....
Dr Afsana Alamgir Khan, MBBS, MPH, Bacteriologist at the Institute of Public Health, Mohakhali in Dhaka has recently gone to Japan under the Young Leaders' Programme to take an MS degree in Healthcare Administration at the Nagoya University. Dr Afsana...
FE Report Robbers have allegedly taken away Tk 0.3 million in cash and 50 tolas of gold from the residence of a retired banker in the early hours of Monday in the capital's Jatrabari area, police said. The name of...
Siddique Islam The Bangladesh Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association (BAFEDA) has asked its member banks not to quote per US dollar beyond Tk 76 at customer level for the next 15 days to bring discipline in the country's foreign exchange market....
STOCKHOLM, Oct 10 (AFP): US researchers Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the 2011 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for their work on macro-economics and government economic policymaking, the Nobel jury said. This year's laureates "have developed methods for answering...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would inaugurate the first-ever Bangladesh-made laptop this (Tuesday) morning. The inaugural function will be held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre at 10:30 am. The laptop branded as "Doel" with four different models priced at Tk...
SIRTE, Libya, Oct 9 (AFP): New regime forces have suffered heavy losses in the street-by-street battle for Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte as the deposed despot's loyalists put up fierce resistance, medics said today. The fighters loyal to the ruling...
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...
Syful Islam The government is going to review the ongoing and upcoming Chinese-funded projects in a move to get the update of their implementation progress, officials said Monday. To this effect the Economic Relations Division (ERD) of the Ministry of...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Oct 10: A training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force crash-landed on the Zahurul Haque Base of Bangladesh Air Force today. The aircraft caught fire at around 12 noon while landing on the runway of the Base beside...
ROME, 10 Oct (AFP): The UN food agency warned Monday of high and volatile food prices putting poor families and small farmers at risk. "Price volatility makes both smallholder farmers and poor consumers increasingly vulnerable to poverty," the Food and...
Saudi Ambassador in Dhaka Abdullah NA Al Bussairy has offered condolence for the eight Bangladeshis beheaded in Riyadh Friday, saying the Sha'ria law was implemented through the execution, reports UNB. "The Saudi government acts for implementation of the law of...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Oct 10: The city bus owners have withdrawn the strike following a meeting with the police administration in the evening. City bus, minibus owners' association president Abul Kalam Azad told the media that they have withdrawn the...
Yasir Wardad The Directorate of Government Transport has sought Tk 1.67 billion to add 324 different kinds of new vehicles to its transport pool, officials said. "The directorate had sought Tk 1.67 billion from the government last month to buy...
STOCKHOLM, Oct 10 (AFP): US researchers Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the 2011 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for their work on macro-economics and government economic policymaking, the Nobel jury said. This year's laureates "have developed methods for answering...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would inaugurate the first-ever Bangladesh-made laptop this (Tuesday) morning. The inaugural function will be held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre at 10:30 am. The laptop branded as "Doel" with four different models priced at Tk...
SIRTE, Libya, Oct 9 (AFP): New regime forces have suffered heavy losses in the street-by-street battle for Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte as the deposed despot's loyalists put up fierce resistance, medics said today. The fighters loyal to the ruling...
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...
FE Report The stakeholders of the stock market have talked about measures for the bourses' restoration to normalcy throwing focus on the existing problems, which will have to be solved through joint efforts, officials have said. The assurance came Monday...
The authorities of Mercantile Bank Ltd. have stated that Bangladesh Bank has approved the change of Coupon (Interest) rate of MBL Subordinated Bond from existing 12.00 per cent p.a. to 12.50 per cent p.a. while all other features of the...
FE Report Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), jointly with Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund (BICF), organized a stakeholder consultation workshop to incorporate their views for drafting a new Companies Act. The session was chaired by the Vice President, MCCI,...
FE Report Dhaka stocks closed lower Monday amid high volatility with significant fall in turnover, in value terms, as panic gripped the investors following the current jittery market trend. Meanwhile, a section of aggrieved investors staged demonstration and formed a...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Oct 10: The city bus owners have withdrawn the strike following a meeting with the police administration in the evening. City bus, minibus owners' association president Abul Kalam Azad told the media that they have withdrawn the...
Yasir Wardad The Directorate of Government Transport has sought Tk 1.67 billion to add 324 different kinds of new vehicles to its transport pool, officials said. "The directorate had sought Tk 1.67 billion from the government last month to buy...
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