A regional conference on "the role of religious and community leaders in advancing development in Asia" sponsored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will be held in the city on March 21 to March 24, reports UNB.Seventy religious...
GAZIPUR, Mar 20 (UNB): Police arrested a RAB official and his associate when they came allegedly on hire, to occupy a piece of land at Pirujali village in Joydebpur Upazila today.Corporal Akter Hossain (30), now posted in communication unit of...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Mar 20: Professor emeritus Anisuzzaman today put emphasis on the proper practice of Bangla language and culture and asked all to be careful about it since Amar Ekushey has achieved a glorious position in the world through acknowledgement...
Our CorrespondentJOYPURHAT, Mar 20: A 5-day free eye camp began at Joypurhat Girls High school organised and financed by Al-Basar International Foundation Saudi Arabia Blindness Control Programme Worldwide Friday in Joypurhat.Abu Sayad Mohammad, deputy commissioner of Joypurhat inaugurated the programme...
LONDON, March 20 (Bloomberg): Crude oil tumbled the most in three weeks as the dollar strengthened against the euro, curbing the appeal of commodities as an alternative investment.Oil retreated 1.9 per cent as speculation that Greece may fail to secure...
British Airways cabin crew have started a three-day strike that is set cause severe disruption for thousands of passengers, reports BBC.The BBC's Chris Rogers was on a BA flight from Heathrow to Amsterdam on Saturday morning.Terminal 5 was teeming with...
LONDON, March 20 (Reuters): Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) and Canadian oil explorer Nexen Inc (NXY.TO) said they had made a "significant" discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, the latest in a string of big finds in the Gulf in the...
LONDON, March 20 (Bloomberg): Gold fell in New York and London, paring its best weekly performance in a month, as a stronger dollar eroded the precious metal's appeal as an alternative investment.The dollar rose to a one-week high against the...
NEW YORK, March 19 (Bloomberg): Palm Inc., maker of the Pre smartphone, fell the most in two years after predicting sales this quarter will be less than half of Wall Street estimates, prompting some analysts to question the company's viability.Revenue...
NEW DELHI, March 19 (Bloomberg): "Significant" sugar purchasing by importers was likely over the next few months after prices fell, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia said in a report today."Key buyers to watch include Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, India and the...
CHICAGO, March 20 (AFP): Can the promise of a free cupcake or some cold hard cash work better than dire predictions of dying polar bears and rising sea levels at getting people to cut their carbon footprint? Two US-based startup...
NEW YORK, March 20 (Bloomberg): Corn fell, paring its first weekly gain this month, as a rebound in the dollar eroded the appeal US grain exports and commodities as an alternative investment.The dollar rose against six major currencies on speculation...
NEW YORK, March 20 (Bloomberg): Cotton futures declined as a rally by the dollar eroded the appeal of commodities as alternative investments.The greenback rose as much as 0.8 per cent against a basket of six major currencies. The Reuters/Jefferies CRB...
New Delhi, Mar 20 (BSS): India has said it might declare a unilateral "no-firing" along its border with Bangladesh for a year to avoid the deaths of civilians in cross-fire. "We are considering unilateral no-firing on the border for one...
Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed has said that no state should interfare in the forthcoming trial of crimes committed against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, as it is an internal affair of Bangladesh, reports UNB."International community has support...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Mar 20: Chittagong dock workers' federation have demanded reinstatement of the 2500 physically fit labourers and introduction of the stevedoring system dissolved during the caretaker government.To press home their demands the Dock Bandar Shramik Karmachari Federation (DBSKF) today...
FE ReportThe production of Hilsa fish is likely to cross 300,000 tonnes mark in 2009-10, if the Jatka protection programme runs successfully, said Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas Saturday.He said, "Fishermen have already caught around 30 tonnes of...
RANGPUR, Mar 20 (UNB): A local Awami League (AL) leader was strangulated to death at Chankuti under Sadar Upazila Friday.Police recovered the body of Motiur Rhaman Moti (55), a trader and also AL vice president of ward no 3 of...
President Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina have felicitated their Tunisian counterparts on the occasion of the Independence Day of that country, reports UNB.In a message to Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Zillur Rahman expressed his...
HABIGANJ, Mar 20 (UNB): Former state minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar was sent to jail Saturday after a five-day remand in Awami League (AL) leader SAMS Kibria killing case.Judge Shahidul Amin of the Judicial Magistrate court passed the order as...
Doulot Akter MalaA committee constituted by the government has recommended withdrawal of mandatory pre-shipment inspection (PSI) system for nearly 1800 products from the next fiscal.The products include industrial raw materials, capital machinery, sugar, refined soybean and palm oil.The committee has...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Bangladesh has lost nearly 4.5 per cent share in the US apparel market in 2009 while our major rivals have attained positive growth during the period, industry people said Saturday. They also said Bangladesh, which had better...
Monira MunniSales of instant power supply (IPS) units have sharply increased in the city, as power crisis has worsened across the country, leading to hours of load-shedding during day and night.City-dwellers, particularly the affluent and even the fixed-income group, are...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanThe government has downsized the annual development programme (ADP) allocation for the current fiscal following a lower-than-expected level of external project aid.The finance ministry has slashed Tk 15.45 billion from the ADP due to non-availability of project aid.Finance...
FE ReportThe parliamentary standing committee on finance has recommended speedy disposal of nearly 12,000 tax related cases involving an amount of Tk 55 billion."The cases are awaiting disposal by the High Court and we have recommended establishment of a dedicated...
Bangladesh government websites, operating out of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), were under cyber attack Saturday by hackers purporting to be "Indian", reports bdnews24.com. At around 2:30am, the news agency found that 19 out of 64 district web portals had...
KUNMING, Mar 20 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday expressed her firm conviction in road and rail links being established between Chittagong and Kunming, to boost trade and investment between their respective countries."I believe the leaders of Yunnan province can...
BENAPOLE, Mar 20: Members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) arrested ten Indian nationals, including women and children at the check-post here Friday night. BDR sources said they arrested the Indian nationals at about 7pm while they were being trafficked to Bangladesh...
FE ReportThe government has asked commercial banks to implement an official decision on the recovery of outstanding credit from private jute millers under certain conditions to help them continue production, sources said.Both the finance and jute ministries separately issued instructions...
FE ReportThe government would review the income tax provision for the private universities before the budget of the next fiscal, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Saturday."We would review this income tax provision for the private universities going into the preparatory...
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