Sonia H Moni | 2011-03-28 00:00:00
Sonia H MoniThe price of gold may increase further by Tk 1000 a 'bhori' in the local market in line with the price hike of the precious metal in the international market, jewellers said. "The gold price is likely to...
JOYPURHAT, Mar 27: Police have arrested former BNP minister and MP Abdul Alim on war crimes charges. Joypurhat police superintendent Mozammel Huq told news agency that a 10-member police team took Alim into custody from his residence near the Sadar...
GAZIPUR, Mar 27: Angry garment workers protesting the death of a fellow worker in a road accident in Noljani area on Dhaka-Gazipur road in Sadar Upazila damaged at least 50 vehicles and set afire four other vehicles Sunday morning. Police...
State owned North-West Power Generation Company (NWPGC) will install eight power plants with a total capacity of generating 810 MW in the northwestern part of the country in two years. - BSS
MICHIGAN, Mar 27 (Bloomberg): Global automakers may lose production of 600,000 vehicles by the end of the month as the earthquake in Japan halts assembly lines and work at suppliers including the maker of a paint pigment. About 320,000 vehicles...
WASHINGTON, Mar 27 (Bloomberg): Employment probably picked up in March and factory assembly lines kept humming, showing that the jump in fuel costs has yet to hamper the US expansion, economists said before reports this week. Payrolls increased by 195,000...
HONG KONG, Mar 27 (Reuters): Sixteen Hong Kong banks have agreed on a deal to enable investors in structured products of the now bankrupt Lehman Brothers recover a majority of their investments. Investors in Hong Kong lost nearly $2.5 billion...
TOKYO, Mar 27 (Bloomberg): Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, said half the stores hampered by Japan's strongest earthquake will resume normal operations today (Monday) as residents struggle to find water, food and other necessities. A dozen of Wal-Mart's...
NEW YORK, Mar 27 (Reuters): Movie rental company Netflix Inc is close to an agreement with Miramax to stream the studio's library in a deal that would be worth "well north of" $100 million over five years, according to a...
LONDON, Mar 27 (BBC): The European Union (EU) should offer Japan a free trade deal to help it recover from the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said. "One of our priorities must be...
Furniture exporters are going to organise a six-day furniture fair for the first time tomorrow (Tuesday) at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city. Bangladesh Furniture Exporters Association (BFEA) has decided to make 'Brand Furniture Fair 2011' a yearly event...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday asked the officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to inquire into abnormal growth of wealth of certain quarters, reports UNB. "You have to find out the source of their income and how much...
Sonia H Moni | 2011-03-28 00:00:00
Sonia H MoniThe price of gold may increase further by Tk 1000 a 'bhori' in the local market in line with the price hike of the precious metal in the international market, jewellers said. "The gold price is likely to...
JOYPURHAT, Mar 27: Police have arrested former BNP minister and MP Abdul Alim on war crimes charges. Joypurhat police superintendent Mozammel Huq told news agency that a 10-member police team took Alim into custody from his residence near the Sadar...
GAZIPUR, Mar 27: Angry garment workers protesting the death of a fellow worker in a road accident in Noljani area on Dhaka-Gazipur road in Sadar Upazila damaged at least 50 vehicles and set afire four other vehicles Sunday morning. Police...
State owned North-West Power Generation Company (NWPGC) will install eight power plants with a total capacity of generating 810 MW in the northwestern part of the country in two years. - BSS
DAMASCUS, Mar 27 (agencies): Activists and eyewitnesses say Syrian army units have deployed in key areas of a seaside Mediterranean city rocked by protests and unrest. They told The Associated Press that troops in army vehicles entered Latakia at night...
JERUSALEM, Mar 27 (AP): Israeli aircraft struck a Palestinian rocket squad in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killing two, as a new defense system to protect southern Israel from militants' rockets prepared to go online after years of development, the...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2011-03-26 00:00:00
FHM Humayan KabirThe government will invite tender from the merchant power producers by the middle of next month with an aim to allow private entrepreneurs to generate power and sell it to the consumers directly, officials said Thursday. "We have...
As many as 31,749 Bangladeshi nationals, who worked in Libya, have so far returned to Bangladesh, according to the latest report. Of them, the return of 3,692 Bangladeshi nationals has been arranged by their employers or some have returned on...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 25 : Several thousand farmers of Poba and Godagari upazilas staged demonstration and gheraoed the DC office Thursday demanding 18-20 hours uninterrupted electricity supply to irrigate their boro fields. They also held a rally in front of the...
The nation will observe its 41st Independence and National Day today (Saturday), paying homage to the martyrs of the War of Liberation of 1971, report agencies. On this day in 1971, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formally...
Munima Sultana | 2011-03-26 00:00:00
Munima SultanaThe authority is yet to set fresh schedule to start construction of the country's biggest and most cost-intensive Padma Bridge having failed to complete the procedure of selecting companies to carry out the project's works. Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA),...
Demanding that 'Bismillah' be dropped from the preamble of the constitution, Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon, MP, said it would be contradictory to secularism if the charter is amended retaining Bismillah, reports bdnews24.com. "Whatever has so far been done...
Politicians and government employees are in a hurry to make up their minds about their political identities or are giving up their jobs. They must do so within the month to contest the next general elections, reports bdnews24.com. The amended...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk Friday discussed regional cooperation in generation of electricity and management of waters of common rivers for mutual benefit, reports UNB. During the nearly one and a half-hour meeting at...
Opposition BNP Friday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina does not want to try Moeenuddin-Fakhruddin as 'they brought her to power', reports UNB. The trial of Moeenuddin-Fakhruudin will be held in course of time, said the BNP leaders at a discussion...
Awami League central leader and former Home Minister Mohammad Nasim said BNP made significant gains by joining the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) that became lively and sonorous with the joint participation of members of both treasury and opposition benches, reports BSS....
RAJSHAHI, Mar 25 : Several thousand farmers of Poba and Godagari upazilas staged demonstration and gheraoed the DC office Thursday demanding 18-20 hours uninterrupted electricity supply to irrigate their boro fields. They also held a rally in front of the...
The nation will observe its 41st Independence and National Day today (Saturday), paying homage to the martyrs of the War of Liberation of 1971, report agencies. On this day in 1971, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formally...
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