President Barak Obama last Friday(1October 2010) took it upon himself to apologise to his Guatemalan counterpart, President Alvaro Colom, for the scandalous experiment that US researchers had carried out in the 1940s, deliberately infecting a special group of Guatemalan women...
Only 4.0 of Bangla-deshi farmers are formally trained in pesticide use or handling. More than 87% freely admit to using little or no protective measures while applying pesticides.Farmers identified pesticide traders as a main source of information.54% of the traders...
A destination to be arrived at in twenty minutes needs at least one and half hours or more to be reached nowadays due to traffic jams. The jams are noted to be turning only more horrendous every day .The sufferers...
People of Bangladesh and India should both want that the relationship of the two countries to only go on improving in all respects. There is a great deal of expectation and rightly so in both countries about the need to...
Islamic banking is a system of banking that avoids receipt and payment of interest in its transactions and conducts its operations in accordance with Shariah principles to achieve the objectives of Islamic economy. Growth of Islamic banking over the last...
If he had been alive today, Che would have turned 82 this year. His life was cut short at the age of 39 on October 9, 1967. Scared stiff to hold him breathing after capture, the foe cravenly ended his...
A great deal of interest and hope was created when last year the government unfurled a complete road-map for a turnaround for the better in the power sector. With their worst experienced and suffered long lingering power crisis, people in...
The High Court has decreed that none in Bangladesh can be forced to wear the burqa, nor can anyone be forced NOT to wear it. Both positions have their basis on the constitution of the country which has been restored...
For the third time in two years, the army appears to have lined up with Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to try and legally disqualify Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari, and force them...
Indian sport has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. There is a spate of allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct made by leading Indian sportswomen. The scandal involving women's hockey came as a bolt from the blue....
Finally, Sri Lankan former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka was locked up in a gloomy prison cell, with the word of "imprisonment" written in his fate. A new chapter of saga of the general who has been endorsed as a hero...
What do you do if you're a successful search marketing agency, running global paid ad campaigns for high-profile clients such as the Hilton hotel group, and you want to expand your expertise?Move into the parrot cage business, of course. This...
KUNDUZ, (Afghanistan), Oct 8 (Reuters): A bomb attack inside a mosque killed the governor of Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province and 15 others as they attended Friday prayers, the local police chief said.The attack on governor Mohammed Omar happened in neighboring...
NEW DELHI, OCT 8 (AFP): India has agreed to buy up to 300 advanced stealth fighter jets from Russia that it will help jointly develop and manufacture, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Thursday.Antony told a press conference with his Russian...
Pakistan's army chief has ordered an inquiry into a video that showed the killing of six unarmed men allegedly by an army firing squad, reports BBC.The video, which was apparently shot with a mobile phone, appeared on a website several...
KARACHI, Oct 8 (AFP): Two bombs ripped through a Sufi shrine in Karachi killing at least eight worshippers, including two children, as Pakistan battles a wave of violence linked to Taliban and Al-Qaeda extremists. Senior police official Hamid Parhial said...
SRINAGAR, Oct 8 (AFP): Indian security forces reimposed a curfew in parts of Indian Kashmir Friday after a hardline separatist called for fresh protests against Indian rule. A curfew was imposed in parts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian...
TEHRAN, Oct 8 (AFP): Five people, including four policemen, were killed and nine others wounded when two gunmen opened fire on a police patrol in Iran's western province of Kordestan on Thursday, Mehr news agency reported. Deputy provincial police commander...
UN envoys press Sudan on security after kidnapping EL FASHER, Oct 8: United Nations ambassadors pressed the Sudanese authorities to do more to ensure the safety of aid workers and peacekeepers in Darfur Friday after gunmen abducted a UN staffer....
The O-series arranged a cultural evening of Tagore singer Roquaiya Hasina Neely recently at the central auditorium of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). It was her fourth solo performance organised by O-series. Neely is known for presenting Tagore's...
BTVam07:00 Announcement, The Holy Quran, The Holy Tripitak Paath and Programme Outline 07:20 Geet Bitaan07:45 Desh O Biggyan08:00 Sakaler Sangbad08:15 Maati-O-Manush08:20 Bishwa Pratidin08:35 Deshtake Bhalobeshe08:55 Sangbad Shironam09:00 Docu- Fire Dekha09:10 Kishor Mancho10:00 News10:05 Rumjhum10:30 Shishu O Nari Unnayon (Debate)11:05 Karukaaz11:30...
FE Report The prices of edible oil and onion crept up further last week as other essential commodities including rice remained stable in city's kitchen market. Prices of edible oil have shot up by Tk 10-12, after Eid-ul-Fitr, in the...
IDLC Securities Limited, a brokerage house of IDLC Finance Limited, has recently opened its ninth branch at Uttara in the city, according to a press release.IDLC Finance Limited Chairman Anwarul Huq inaugurated the branch while IDLC Securities Limited Chairman and...
FE ReportMobile phone recharge businessmen have demanded immediate compensation of their loss due to sudden shutdown of four local telecom companies by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) early this year.They threatened that if they did not get compensation immediately...
FE ReportState-run sugar mills will start issuing 'purji' -- a permit of selling sugarcane -- through mobile phone's SMS which is issued for growers this month, the head of Sugar Corporation said.Ranjit Kumar Biswas, chairman of Bangladesh Sugar and Food...
FE ReportNational Life Insurance (NLI) Company Limited has approved 55 per cent stock dividend for its shareholders for the year 2009.The approval was given at the 25th annual general meeting (AGM) of the company at NLI Tower in the city...
FE ReportShiekh Masadul Alam and Abul Kashem Mazumder have been elected chairman and secretary general of the Bangladesh Auto Re-Rolling and Steel Mills Association (BARSMA) respectively for the term of 2010-2012.All the candidates of their panel including the two above...
October 3 to October 7Commercial Bank of CeylonThe inter-bank call money rates were stable and traded between 4.50 per cent and 6.50 per cent in the past week. The central bank absorbed the excess liquidity through its Reverse Repo window....
Mahmudur RahmanThe expression "politics makes strange bed fellows" is one that has done the rounds long enough to be understood if not tally accepted. But when politics comes to the family level it takes on a different dimension. In the...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanExport of ready-made garment (RMG) products from Bangladesh will get a boost as the US House of Representatives approved a bill to shield US companies and workers against China's currency practices.The bill will allow Washington to impose countervailing...
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