Thousands of children die of pneumonia in Bangladesh only due to lack of awareness, the health minister has said, reports bdnews24.com. Dr A F M Ruhal Haque said Friday, a day ahead of World Pneumonia Day, awareness about the danger...
Rights groups have urged the climate vulnerable countries to emerge as independent negotiation group in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), freeing themselves from the interest of G-77 plus China, reports UNB. An alliance of five rights groups...
GAZIPUR, Nov 11 (UNB): A mobile court here on Thursday sentenced a youth to six months imprisonment for sexually harassing a school girl. The convict was identified as Abdul Karim Sheikh (18), son of Abdur Rahman Sheikh of Ratanpur village...
KHULNA, Nov 11 (BSS): Khulna City today (Friday) took a festive mood as its dwellers are expecting victory of the Sundarbans, the world famous mangrove forest, in new 'seven wonders of nature' competition. Sundarbans Samarthak Gosthi, a forum of supporters...
Jubair Hasan Transport owners and businessmen are worried over the future of business, saying that they are facing a serious crisis of confidence due to the frequent price hike of fuels that could lead to chaos in the country's communications...
ADDU CITY, Nov 11 (BSS): A Bangladeshi commercial bank would open a foreign exchange branch in the Maldivian capital Male to facilitate the expatriates to send their remittances home. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said this to the expatriate Bangladeshis who...
The BNP has criticised the government for the latest hike in oil prices and alleged that it (the government) was bullying the opposition into submission so that people stopped speaking about its failures, reports bdnews24.com. "The government is further heightening...
Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Nov 11: Italy and Greece both in dire economic straits will be looking to technocrats to salvage the sinking economies. Greece has already named Lucas Papademos former vice president of the European Central Bank to be...
Arafat Ara Spinners are concerned over the rat race among a section of entrepreneurs to set up jute spinning mills in the country as the production capacity of the sector has already been over-saturated compared to the global demand for...
The headline of small front-page news item, published in the FE's November 11 issue, was erroneously printed as 'Let news' instead of 'Late news'. The mistake is regretted.
Rights groups have urged the climate vulnerable countries to emerge as independent negotiation group in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), freeing themselves from the interest of G-77 plus China, reports UNB. An alliance of five rights groups...
GAZIPUR, Nov 11 (UNB): A mobile court here on Thursday sentenced a youth to six months imprisonment for sexually harassing a school girl. The convict was identified as Abdul Karim Sheikh (18), son of Abdur Rahman Sheikh of Ratanpur village...
KHULNA, Nov 11 (BSS): Khulna City today (Friday) took a festive mood as its dwellers are expecting victory of the Sundarbans, the world famous mangrove forest, in new 'seven wonders of nature' competition. Sundarbans Samarthak Gosthi, a forum of supporters...
Badrul Ahsan The country's rawhide import has been increasing significantly mainly due to a declining trend in rearing cattle, both at households and commercial farms, and the growing export of leather and leather goods abroad, industry insiders said. The rising...
Malaysian state energy firm Petronas said Friday it has signed an agreement with Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to spend $12 billion to jointly develop oil fields off Malaysia's Borneo island. The two companies agreed Thursday to two 30-year production-sharing contracts...
Talha Bin Habib With the advent of winter season, the sale of warm cloths and blankets has started gaining momentum in the capital. Customers, mainly the limited income groups, thronged different makeshift shops at Gulistan, Ramna Bhaban and Baitul Mukarram...
Kamrun Nahar Local tour operators eye a 15 per cent growth in the number of leisure tourists visiting Bangladesh compared to that of last year thanks to availability of on-arrival visa and good promotion of the tourism sector in global...
Chancellor of Austria Werner Faynman Thursday inaugurated the third Global Social Business Summit in Vienna. Mayor of Vienna, Dr. Michael Haupl greeted the audience of more than 500 delegates from 56 countries, said a statement. Under the motto "Pioneering for...
Ismail Hossain Salt price soared at least by Tk 150 to 200 in per 70 kg sack over the last one week as a vast amount of salt was consumed by tanners for rawhide preservation during Eid-ul-Azha in the face...
Monira Munni Local shrimp exporters have reiterated their demand for allocation of 100 acres of 'khas' land to each of the shrimp farms, as the government had decided earlier, to raise their production and help flourish the sector. They said...
GAZIPUR, Nov 11 (UNB): A mobile court here on Thursday sentenced a youth to six months imprisonment for sexually harassing a school girl. The convict was identified as Abdul Karim Sheikh (18), son of Abdur Rahman Sheikh of Ratanpur village...
KHULNA, Nov 11 (BSS): Khulna City today (Friday) took a festive mood as its dwellers are expecting victory of the Sundarbans, the world famous mangrove forest, in new 'seven wonders of nature' competition. Sundarbans Samarthak Gosthi, a forum of supporters...
NEW DELHI, Nov 11 (Reuters): India's industrial output grew at its slowest pace in two years in September, providing further evidence of deceleration in the economy and raising the odds of a pause in the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI)...
NEW YORK, Nov 11 (PTI): Internet titan Google Inc has acquired two startup firms -- Apture and Katango -- for an undisclosed amount that would help it enhance the user experience of its browser and social networking services. The 4-year...
COLOMBO, Nov 11 (LBO): Stagnation in the United States and European Union might slow demand for Sri Lanka's exports and a shift away from such reliance to new markets would help to cushion growth prospects, a new rating report said....
WELLINGTON, Nov 11 (Xinhua): A trans-Pacific trade deal involving the United States, Australia, New Zealand and six other nations could be settled by the middle of next year if the US sets a deadline at talks currently underway in Hawaii,...
SINGAPORE, Nov 11 (Business Times): Singapore's average retail space rental rose by 3.2 per cent quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter of the year, according to the CBRE Asia Pacific Prime Rental Index released Thursday. The first rise recorded for almost...
BEIJING, Nov 11 (Xinhua): China faces a pessimistic foreign trade outlook in light of global economic turmoil, rising labor and raw material costs and mounting pressure regarding the appreciation of the yuan, a senior official said Friday. Although the country...
SINGAPORESYDNEY, Nov 11 (Reuters): MF Global's liquidators are struggling to sell the Asian business as one concern because of problems unwinding trading positions, so they may now sell the various country units separately. The provisional liquidators for the business in...
GAZIPUR, Nov 11 (UNB): A mobile court here on Thursday sentenced a youth to six months imprisonment for sexually harassing a school girl. The convict was identified as Abdul Karim Sheikh (18), son of Abdur Rahman Sheikh of Ratanpur village...
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