The key functionaries of the government have been calling upon businesses to go by standard business ethics and refrain from any dirty operations that lead to increased prices of food grains by creating an artificial crisis in the market through...
Turkish President Abdullah Gul left for a working visit to Egypt Thursday, the first visit by a foreign president after protests unseated the country's long-time leader Hosni Mubarak. Turkey will share its experiences and views with other Middle East countries...
Nehal Adil | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Nehal AdilThe Sundarbans, the world's largest mangroves forest, was Bangladesh's main honey producing centre. But it was devastated by the mighty hurricane Sidr. Honey in the Sundarbans is collected in the wild by the hunter gatherers who brave the mighty...
All work with computers using the Internet in an office in Malaysia. This is a common scenario in many offices of the developed countries. They are not using papers in office work. It is hoped within a very short time...
NATORE, Mar 4 (UNB): Some 200 answer scripts of SSC examinations, which went missing, were recovered from a sugarcane field in Baraigram Upazila Friday. Police said Alauddin Mondal, acting headmaster of Nagar High School in the same upazila, carrying 200...
The volume of remittances sent by Bangladeshi workers from oil-rich Kuwait has increased substantially from last month as the Kuwati government has increased the minimum wage of workers to 60 Kuwaiti Dinar (KD) from 40 KD, reports BSS. The wages...
FE Report | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
FE ReportPrices of daily essentials including rice and edible oil maintained high trend while onion prices declined in the city's kitchen markets, traders said Friday. A kg of loose soybean oil sold at Tk 116 to Tk 120 and palm...
NEW YORK, Mar 4 (BBC): Marketing group WPP saw profits in 2010 rise by almost a third to £851m, thanks in part to a rebound in US advertising in the final quarter. Like-for-like revenue growth - ignoring the effect of...
Shah Alam Nur | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Shah Alam NurExport earnings from jute goods increased by 53.95 per cent during the first seven months of the current fiscal year. The earnings during July-January period of FY 2010-11 stood at $643.48 million compared to $417.99 million during the...
Our Correspondent | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Our CorrespondentNATORE, Mar 3: Different mobile courts in six upazilas of Natore Sadar, Bagatipara, Lalpur, Baraigram, Gurudashpur and Singra under Natore district sentenced 66 drug peddlers to different terms of imprisonment during the last 7 days. Superintendent of police (In-charge),...
MOULVIBAZAR, Mar 3 (UNB): Chemical pesticides are being used indiscriminately in vegetable fields in different areas of the district to combat pest attacks. This practice, besides polluting environment, is causing serious health hazard to people of the seven Upazilas of...
Our Correspondent | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Mar 3: Rangpur Municipality with the assistance of the Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) Project funded by UK Aid and UNDP observed Urban Food Production (UFP) Day through several events Tuesday on March 1, 2011. The...
Another report adds: Theft of the electric transformers of Palli Buddyut Samity (PBS) 2 has caused a total breakdown in power transmission in 9 unions of Badarganj Upazila in Rangpur district. The theft took place Monday night which shut down...
Another message adds: Milk price has soared in Rangpur a due to its short supply in the local markets, causing acute sufferings to the common people. One kg of milk was being sold at Tk 40 in the district town...
SUNAMGANJ, Mar 3 (UNB): Local dealers are selling urea fertiliser at exorbitant prices in Jagannathpur Upazila, inflicting sufferings to the growers. Farmers alleged that the dealers are selling fertiliser at excess rate after creating artificial scarcity in the Upazila. Farmers...
TRIPOLI, Mar 4 (AP): Fighters loyal to Moammar Gaddafi set up checkpoints in Tripoli, searching cars, ahead of planned anti-government protests Friday, raising fears of new bloodshed in the Libyan capital where a heavy crackdown the past week has spread...
ISLAMABAD, Mar 4 (AP): Pakistan's prime minister told mourners at a Friday funeral Mass for a Christian politician assassinated for opposing harsh blasphemy laws that they had lost a great leader and that the government would do its 'utmost' to...
BEIJING, Mar 4 (The Times of India): China's parliament has advised the government to overhaul the defence and administrative set up in border areas connected to India and other countries in south and central Asia. The advice comes from Chinese...
TAMPA, Fla., Mar 4 (AP): George Steinbrenner often compared himself to powerful, iron-fisted leaders. Assuredly, the late New York Yankees owner never had the Iranian president in mind. An American diplomat did, calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the "The George Steinbrenner of...
ISTANBUL, Mar 4 (AFP): Turkish newspapers raised the alarm over press freedom Friday after the detention of more journalists in a controversial coup probe, putting the blame on the Islamist-rooted government. "Give us an explanation," the liberal Radikal daily said...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Mar 4: A rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite has blasted off. Vandenberg Air Force Base officials say the Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's Glory satellite lifted off at 2:09 am PST Friday from the base....
SANAA, Mar 4: Witnesses say Yemeni soldiers opened fire at anti-government protesters in the country's north, killing two people and wounding seven. They say the shooting occurred as the soldiers tried to disperse thousands who took to the main street...
The US and Mexico have reached a proposed deal to open US highways to Mexican trucks, raising hopes of an end to a 20-year dispute, reports BBC. The agreement was announced during a two day visit by the Mexican President...
NEW YORK, Mar 4 (BBC): Marketing group WPP saw profits in 2010 rise by almost a third to £851m, thanks in part to a rebound in US advertising in the final quarter. Like-for-like revenue growth - ignoring the effect of...
Shah Alam Nur | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Shah Alam NurExport earnings from jute goods increased by 53.95 per cent during the first seven months of the current fiscal year. The earnings during July-January period of FY 2010-11 stood at $643.48 million compared to $417.99 million during the...
Our Correspondent | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Our CorrespondentNATORE, Mar 3: Different mobile courts in six upazilas of Natore Sadar, Bagatipara, Lalpur, Baraigram, Gurudashpur and Singra under Natore district sentenced 66 drug peddlers to different terms of imprisonment during the last 7 days. Superintendent of police (In-charge),...
MOULVIBAZAR, Mar 3 (UNB): Chemical pesticides are being used indiscriminately in vegetable fields in different areas of the district to combat pest attacks. This practice, besides polluting environment, is causing serious health hazard to people of the seven Upazilas of...
Our Correspondent | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Mar 3: Rangpur Municipality with the assistance of the Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) Project funded by UK Aid and UNDP observed Urban Food Production (UFP) Day through several events Tuesday on March 1, 2011. The...
Another report adds: Theft of the electric transformers of Palli Buddyut Samity (PBS) 2 has caused a total breakdown in power transmission in 9 unions of Badarganj Upazila in Rangpur district. The theft took place Monday night which shut down...
Another message adds: Milk price has soared in Rangpur a due to its short supply in the local markets, causing acute sufferings to the common people. One kg of milk was being sold at Tk 40 in the district town...
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