LONDON, Sept 25 (bdnews24.com): Former Awami League general secretary Abdul Jalil was assaulted by UK Jubo League workers on Thursday, a day after he launched a scathing attack on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina in an interview with bdnews24.com. Jalil,...
A vegetable trader was slaughtered by a gang of unidentified assailants at Gandaria in the capital Friday. The victim was identified as Sohel Sarkar (25), a vegetable trader of Shyam Bazar and resident of Purba Gandaria area. The police quoting...
A fire gutted goods of a stationery shop worth Tk 0.80 million at Elephant Road in the capital Friday. The fire originated from a fault in the electricity line. The duty officer of Fire Brigade Headquarters, Selina Parvin, said the...
CHITTAGONG, Sept 25: Five unions of Karnafuli thana on the south bank of the river Karnafuli were brought under the administration of Chittagong City Corporation Friday.. CCC Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury announced this at a function in Charlakhya area of...
S M JahangirThe government has adopted a fresh strategy to attain its 1.20 million tonnes of food grain procurement target, set earlier for the last Boro cropping season, officail sources said.A poor collection performance of paddy has necessitated the authorities...
The government has decided to intensify security of Bangladesh Secretariat, the hub of the country's administration, by introducing electronic identity cards (EICs) for employees and visitors, reports BSS.Officials familiar with the initiative told BSS that work is underway to introduce...
A Z M anasThe country's progress in primary education faces the risk of being stalled as the global recession has limited its scope for expanding fiscal space, warns the UN's education agency.Categorising Bangladesh as "at-risk" group, the Paris-based UN Education,...
FE ReportThe clock will be moved back by an hour on October 1 next as the Daylight Saving Time (DST) introduced by the government for this year ends on Sept 30 with only nominal gains during almost three months of...
FE ReportAn alleged drug peddler was declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) when a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) brought him to the hospital soon after his arrest Friday morning. A top official of RAB headquarters told...
PITTSBURGH, Sept 25(AP): Authorities braced for scattered protests at dozens of businesses and organizations Friday, one day after riot police turned back hundreds of demonstrators on the first day of the Group of 20 summit, arresting nearly 70 people.Police, in...
NEW DELHI, Sept 25 (AFP): India’s inflation gained pace, fuelled by a massive leap in food prices on the back of the worst drought in decades, official data showed yesterday. Annual inflation rose by a faster-than-expected 0.37 percent for the...
Maswood Alam KhanFOR the last few decades Americans have established their reputation as buyers, not sellers. And factory owners the world over have since long mobilized their men and geared their machines to regulate volumes of factory production keeping always...
Md. Touhidul Alam Khan The TQM and TQC mindset: TQC has achieved such outstanding results in so many fields -- not just in quality assurance and production management but also in cost control, sales management, customer satisfaction, and the workplace...
PRESIDENT Barak Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly last Wednesday, said the United States would 'no longer drag her feet on climate change,' and acknowledged the need for the world to move together to find sustainable solutions to the...
Mohiuddin BabarThe government in Bhutan has recently warned its citizens over use of wood-sticks in making poles for prayer flags. Concerned by cutting down of tens of thousands of trees to make the poles to hold colourful flags at religious...
IS the education imparted by the government medical colleges capable of equipping medical students to become good doctors? Has the recent flow of doctors in hordes from government medical colleges to private medical colleges affected the quality of education? And...
BANGLADESH has a building code with convenient options for people together with inhabitants with disabilities. Yet, once more loopholes in the arrangement, the deficiencies in correct monitoring, and absence of a penalization system could not lead to beginning openness for...
Boogie WoogieOn SONY SET Friday at 9-30 pm.The original dance show, only one of its kind, to hit Indian Television, Sansui Boogie Woogie, recently completed 10 glorious years. The dance show, that continues to rock the small screen with its...
NEW YORK, Sept 24: A new Michael Jackson song, "This Is It," will be released as a single on October 12, Sony Music Entertainment announced Wednesday.The song -- which features backing vocals by Michael's brothers, the Jacksons -- is part...
NEW DELHI, Sep 24: 'Festival of Gold' got a 'Midas' touch when Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe Lara Dutta mesmerised people with her presence at a jewellery exhibition.Bollywood actress Lara Dutta inaugurated 25th edition of MMTC's Festival of Gold...
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 (AP): Beyonce Knowles has sung about partying like a "naughty girl," but Malaysians can expect her to be on her best behavior for a concert in this Muslim-majority country next month, the event's organiser said Thursday.The...
MINGORA, Pakistan, Sept 24 (AFP): More than a year after locking doors and ripping down racy posters because of Taliban threats, cinema is once again attracting excited men in Pakistan's Swat valley.Mingora, the capital of the northwest district formerly overrun...
MUMBAI,Sept. 24 (Bloomberg): India's shares fell for the second day, led by commodity producers after raw-material prices declined, and Tata Power Co. as Citigroup Inc. downgraded the stock to "hold."Hindalco Industries Ltd., India's biggest aluminum producer, dropped 3.7 per cent....
HONG KONG, Sept. 24 (Bloomberg): Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. fell 12 per cent on the first day of trading in Hong Kong, the city's weakest debut this year, on concern government efforts to curb industrial overcapacity may limit profit...
ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: Gold price hit a record high at Rs31,324 per tola as compared to Rs31,050 a day earlier, propelled by the international market where the rate went up to an 18-month high. On Friday, the 10-gram rate soared...
LONDON, Sept. 24 (Bloomberg): European stocks fell for the first time in three days as German business confidence rose less than forecast, adding to speculation a six-month rally has outpaced prospects for the economy. US index futures retreated.Hennes & Mauritz...
COLOMBO, Sept. 24 (Bloomberg): Tea production in Sri Lanka, the world's fourth-biggest grower, may drop as dry weather damaged the crop and a wage dispute disrupted supplies.This year's output target of 300 million kilograms may be reduced, Lalith Hettiarachchi, chairman...
NEW DELHI, Sept. 24 (Bloomberg): India, the world's biggest sugar consumer, will extend duty-free imports of the refined variety beyond the November deadline as demand outpaces supplies for a second year, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said.Purchases at zero duty will...
NAIROBI, Sept. 24 (Bloomberg): Kenya's price-weighted All-Share Index declined for a third day, easing 0.05, or 0.1 per cent, to 55.20 at 10:57 a.m. in Nairobi.The shares of nine companies gained, nine declined and 37 were unchanged. The following were...
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Bloomberg): US stock-index futures drifted between gains and losses before a report on existing home sales and the Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh.Electronic Arts Inc. slid 3.2 per cent in Germany after Microsoft Corp. said...
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