From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Mar 20: Kai Eide, the outgoing UN mission chief in Afghanistan accused Pakistan of derailing the proximity dialogue between Talebans and the world body by arresting Mullah Baradar and other influential leaders of the militant group....
Munima SultanaA specialised board on potato sits today (Sunday) to find out ways of proper utilisation of this season's bumper production of the crop to save thousands of potato growers from facing financial loss.Officials said Potato Advisory Board, headed by...
FE Report The country's banking sector witnessed a mixed trend in interest rates on deposits in the current month while the lending rates remained almost unchanged. At least four commercial banks have increased their deposit rates while five banks slashed...
FE ReportDhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country's premier bourse, goes to election today (Sunday) with high hopes of choosing neutral and acceptable leaders for the capital market."The elected directors should play a neutral role for the interest of the stock...
NEW DELHI, March 20 (bdnews24.com): The two-day Joint River Commission (JRC) ministerial meeting in New Delhi failed to strike a deal as expected on sharing of Teesta River, apparently because of West Bengal. Both New Delhi and Dhaka claimed that...
Nepal’s five-term prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala died Saturday after multiple organ failure, the Indian news agency PTI reported. Quoting Nepali Congress vice president Gopal Man Shrestha, Press Trust of India said that 87-year-old Koirala died at 12.10 pm local...
BAGHDAD, MAR 20 (AP): A secular challenger to Iraq’s prime minister has again edged ahead in parliamentary elections now that the vote count is nearly complete.
A CorrespondentNARSINGDI, Mar 19: National Children's Day and 90th birth anniversary of father of nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was observed with due respect and festivity in Narsingdi.In the morning a procession paraded different roads, which started from Collectorate Office...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Mar 19: BNP leaders here today alleged that the government was plotting to annihilate the opposition by not providing permission to hold grand rally of the party at the outer stadium in Chittagong.They said that the public meeting...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Friday closed operation of RanksTel for its alleged involvement in illegal VoIP (voice over internet protocol) business, reports UNB. RAB sources said a joint team of RAB and BTRC officials seized different equipment used...
BEIJING, Mar 19 (UNB): Bangladesh and China have decided to establish a "Closer Comprehensive Partnership of Cooperation" from the strategic perspective and on the basis of the principles of longstanding friendship, equality, and mutual benefit.A joint statement, issued Friday after...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The country's importers, manufacturers, shippers and owners of fuel tankers suffered a hefty financial loss during the three-day non-stop strike enforced by waterways transport workers that ended Thursday midnight, competent sources said.Eighteen mother vessels that remained stranded...
FE ReportBangladesh can potentially overcome its nagging energy shortage within the next three years through institutional capacity building and strong commitment from the government, a senior World Bank official said Thursday. Identifying the mitigation of power crisis as one of...
FE ReportGrameenphone (GP) board has recommended 60 per cent cash dividend for its shareholders for the year 2009. The recommendation came Friday at a board meeting of the GP held in Bangkok, a senior GP executive informed the FE.The trading...
Qatar has pledged 100 million US dollars in assistance to rejuvenate the flow of the Buriganga by diverting water from the Jamuna. Chief of Planning of the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) Abdul Wadud Bhuiyan said an eight-member delegation from...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 19: Loading and unloading of cargoes from mother vessels at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port resumed Thursday midnight after remaining suspended for 70 hours since Monday midnight because of a non-stop countrywide strike enforced by water transport...
The government will build 11,268 flats with modern amenities in the capital in the next three years to sell out those to the government employees and general public. According to official sources, the National Housing Authority (NHA), a statutory body...
Mahmudur Rahman"What's in a name,A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"— William Shakespeare…And so spoke the bard as he extolled the virtues of character and quality over that of mere names. In modern times the hard boiled...
LONDON, Mar 19 (bdnews24.com): A new phase of a "groundbreaking" project in Bangladesh to fight poverty and combat climate change will start in April, a British minister announced Thursday. The UK's international development secretary Douglas Alexander said Britain will provide...
M Azizur RahmanThe government has allowed the private sector to import liquefied natural gas under a new policy to ease acute gas crisis, although the country lacked infrastructure to gasify LNG and pipe it to the mainland.Private companies will now...
BRUSSELS, March 19 (AFP): The euro fell sharply Friday as the European Commission pressed EU member states to approve financial aid pledges for debt-laden Greece amid a shift toward IMF intervention in the crisis.Days from a European Union summit, Germany...
FE ReportThe Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) extended its bearish run amid subdued trading for the fifth straight session that ended Thursday as the investors preferred to stay on the sidelines in fear of further downslide in stock prices.The benchmark DSE...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Mar 19: The crucial voting on President Obama's health care reform has been set for tomorrow (Sunday). The issue is so close to his heart that he has postponed his upcoming visit to Australia and Indonesia...
FE ReportThe government is set to increase the amount of agricultural subsidy by around Tk 6.0 billion in the revised budget for the fiscal year (FY), official sources said. "The agriculture ministry has submitted a proposal to the finance ministry...
MUMBAI, Mar 19 (AFP): Bad scripts, flimsy characters and poor-quality production are hindering Indian cinema as it attempts to capture new global audiences, leading industry figures say.Top actors, film-makers and executives said India needed to raise its game if it...
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Enayet Rasul BhuiyanBangladesh Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina is now in her official visit to China. This is the first such visit to that country since her taking over the reins of government for the second time in Bangladesh. The...
Ameer HamzaIn a generally 'conservative' (or is it 'repressed'?) society like ours, dispassionate discussion of human sexuality is hardly an easy affair. Most regard this basic instinct as taboo, or, at worst, a rather prurient quest. Both attitudes are bad...
Tichaona ChifambaThe majority of Zimbabweans may not get to know what really transpired behind closed doors when South African President Jacob Zuma had meetings with their leaders between Marc 16 and 18 but Zuma's visit to Harare rekindled their hopes...
It is close-minded and amazingly audacious for Western politicians and pundits to brand China with an "arrogance" label.China, after all, is still a developing country focused on its domestic modernization drive and is simply playing an increasingly constructive and noticeable...
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