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...
KOLKATA, Mar 3 (BSS): Union Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee announced on Wednesday that she would not contest the ensuing West Bengal Assembly elections. At the same time, she said that she would lead the government if...
YANGON, Mar 3 (Xinhua) : Myanmar has formed a 19- member Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Implementation Committee to lay down programs for the development of SEZ as a follow-up of the promulgation of its SEZ law. The SEZ implementation committee,...
NEW DELHI, Mar 3 (AFP): India's graft-tainted government suffered a fresh setback Thursday when its candidate to be the country's chief corruption fighter was rejected by the Supreme Court because of a pending criminal case. The decision to cancel the...
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Mar 3 (Reuters): American International Group Inc sold $9.6 billion worth of MetLife Inc shares on Wednesday, producing gross proceeds of about $6.3 billion to accelerate its payback of U.S. Treasury bailout funds. AIG and the Treasury said...
US securities regulator is seeking information from an unknown number of regional and community banks that have restructured troubled loans in order to make them appear healthier than they really are, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with...
WASHINGTON, Mar 3 (AP): President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon are meeting amid heightened tensions over violence at their shared border, though no major breakthroughs are expected on what's quickly becoming a defining issue in the relationship between...
MOHALI, March 3 (AFP): AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla smashed centuries against the hapless Netherlands bowlers Thursday to set up a thumping 231-run win for South Africa. De Villiers scored 134 for a second successive ton while opener Amla...
NEW DELHI, Mar 3 (AFP): Ireland's sensational World Cup victory over England left Andrew Strauss's Ashes winners battling to salvage their credibility Thursday and sent international cricket bosses reeling. Ireland struck a major blow for the game's second tier nations...
JAKARTA, Mar 3 (Reuters): Indonesian officials have no fears of punishment from FIFA over alleged government interference into the management of the country's soccer federation (PSSI). A senior PSSI official told Thursday's Jakarta Post, soccer's governing body was unlikely to...
LONDON, Mar 3 (AP): Nicklas Bendtner's hat trick helped Arsenal rout Leyton Orient 5-0 in a fifth-round FA Cup replay and Manchester City eased past Aston Villa 3-0 to also make the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Marouane Chamakh and Gael Clichy...
Our Correspondent | 2011-03-04 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 | 2011-03-04 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...
Country's remittance earning that witnessed a balanced trend in recent months might face serious setback in the coming days due to uprising in Libya, which forced many Bangladeshi workers to return home, reports UNB. The present crisis is likely to...
Judgment on the writ petition, filed by Nobel Laureate, Prof Muhammad Yunus, challenging the legality of his removal as Grameen Bank (GB) managing director, will be delivered on Sunday, reports bdnews24.com. The High Court bench of justices Muhammed Mamtaz Uddin...
Asaduzzaman Pallab | 2011-03-04 00:00:00
Asaduzzaman PallabJiban Bima Corporation (JBC), a state-owned life insurance company, will join seven other state-owned financial institutions to form a 'special fund' aiming to provide liquidity support following a capital market debacle. These eight financial institutions would sit in a...
FE Report | 2011-03-04 00:00:00
FE ReportNewly-appointed European Union (EU) envoy to Dhaka, William Hanna, said Bangladesh can emerge as a regional investment hub but it should improve energy situation and combat corruption in an effort to woo investors to the country. "Bangladesh is the...
COLOMBO, Mar 3 (AFP): Pakistan beat Canada by 46 runs in a World Cup Group A match at the R Premadasa stadium Thursday. Brief scores Pakistan 184 all out in 43 overs (Umar Akmal 48) v Canada 138 all out...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2011-03-04 00:00:00
FHM Humayan KabirBangladesh should diversify its production base for its sustained export growth and create more employment opportunities as its current one product-based trade is very vulnerable, a trade expert of International Labour Organisation (ILO) said. David Cheong, a trade...
Muhammad Yunus has said it is not a big deal who is the managing director of Grameen Bank (GB), but it should not suffer in any way, reports bdnews24.com . "There should not be any hit on GB, an institution,...
FE Report | 2011-03-04 00:00:00
FE Report Finance Minister AMA Muhith Thursday said the government decision relating to removal of Dr Yunus from the post of Managing Director of Grameen Bank did not raise the country's image abroad. "It definitely did not raise the country's...
A total of 522 more Bangladeshis came home from Libya Thursday. A batch of 174 people arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 11am. International Organisation for Migration (IOM) brought them home by a chartered flight. Another two batches, with...
Shah Ali Police recovered the body of an unidentified teenage girl Thursday from a roadside shop at Nobaberbagh at about 9:00am. Local people informed the police, who sent it to Dhaka Medical College morgue for post mortem. According to morgue...
Asaduzzaman Pallab | 2011-03-04 00:00:00
Asaduzzaman PallabJiban Bima Corporation (JBC), a state-owned life insurance company, will join seven other state-owned financial institutions to form a 'special fund' aiming to provide liquidity support following a capital market debacle. These eight financial institutions would sit in a...
FE Report | 2011-03-04 00:00:00
FE ReportNewly-appointed European Union (EU) envoy to Dhaka, William Hanna, said Bangladesh can emerge as a regional investment hub but it should improve energy situation and combat corruption in an effort to woo investors to the country. "Bangladesh is the...
COLOMBO, Mar 3 (AFP): Pakistan beat Canada by 46 runs in a World Cup Group A match at the R Premadasa stadium Thursday. Brief scores Pakistan 184 all out in 43 overs (Umar Akmal 48) v Canada 138 all out...
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