GENEVA, Sept 5 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the expatriate Bangladeshis to extend their wholehearted support to her government in building a modern digital Bangladesh by 2021 through salvaging the country from what she said the ruins left...
FE Report The country's apex apparel body said Saturday that Finance Minister AMA Muhith's rejection of providing incentive package to the garment factories would hurt the sector to a great extent. They, however, said that they would pay wages and...
FBCCI President Annisul Huq said Saturday the prices of sugar and pulses were showing an up trend again despite taking all-out measures by the government to keep the market stable, reports UNB."The prices of sugar and pulses have marked a...
FE ReportPrices of sugar maintained a downward trend in the city's local markets but was still higher than rates that the government fixed earlier. Prices of ginger were up while other essential commodities including potato, onion and edible oil, fish...
Mashiur RahamanOverseas jobs for the country's unskilled and semi-skilled workers plunged by 29.75 per cent in August as the top job markets abroad continued to face the aftermath of the global financial meltdown, officials said Tuesday.The Bureau of Manpower, Employment...
Nehle Pe DehllaOn Zee TV Saturday at 6-00 pm. After the passing away of her parents, wealthy Pooja Sahni lives with her paternal uncle, Balram, and both of them operate a five-star Hotel, with plans to open buy another one...
The National Educational Policy Formulation Committee has come out with its final draft report. The committee handed the report to the education minister last Wednesday. The salient features of the recommendations of the committee include revising the stages of under-graduate...
Nerun YakubDhaka City Corporation mosquito control personnel were recently photographed absurdly testing pesticides on adult mosquitoes confined inside nets. Isn't it rather obtuse to wait for the mites to take to wings when it is far more practical and sound,...
Mahbubul Haque Chowdhury Bangladesh has made some progress in the field of technology. But the country is still now too underdeveloped in matters of computer and ICT. In order to catch up with the developed countries, the ruling Awami League...
The gas crisis has worsened in many areas of the capital city. Most times the gas goes out around 9-10-11 in the morning and only comes back after iftar. Residents suffering from this crisis have to prepare iftar between 7...
TIMELY medical interventions can reduce maternal and child mortality. Although, fatalism and cultural acceptance of mortality at birth are cited as among the reasons for high neonatal mortality, families seek to protect the new-born in several ways. A review of...
Enayet Rasul BhuiyanThe present government of Bangladesh has been in power for over 240 days or more than eight months. Compared to the total allowable tenure of this government which is five years, this length of time is not a...
Najmuddin A ShaikhIn my column last week, I had expressed the fear that the allegations of election fraud would further divide Afghanistan rather than give added legitimacy to a re-elected President Karzai. Developments over the last week have only strengthened...
Ameer HamzaAbdullah Abu Sayeed and his like-minded activists made news recently by ushering in the month of Ramadan, in full view of the TV cameras, with exhortations on healthy eating. They displayed packets of what constitutes 'good food', and people...
Shobha SVLADAKHIS must have done something extraordinary to place their land on the tourism map of the world. Mehboob Ali, Tourist Officer, Directorate of Tourism under the state government of Jammu and Kashmir in India, says, "Earlier, the locals were...
The Fattepur village was washed away by the flood in 2006. 90 per cent of land was lost. The land was completely inundated and paddy field, the main means of survival for all of the community, disappeared. After the flood...
Li NuerZimbabwe has signed the interim Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union that is expected to run until December 2010, The Herald reported on Friday.Confederations of Zimbabwe Industries economist Dephine Mazambani told the CZI congress on Wednesday that Zimbabwe...
The Swine Flu may be a localised pandemic to selected countries, but it has a global impact. Even though the travel restriction may be positive for containing the disease, it means that airlines, particularly the North American carriers, could start...
India Friday bade adieu to one of its biggest mass leaders, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y.S.R. Reddy, amid huge emotional outpouring spilling to the streets and backlanes of the southern Indian state.Reddy was killed in a helicopter crash...
Shamsher Chowdhury Most of us when we talk of environmental pollution, we think of air or water pollution, we think of the exhaust fumes emitted by motorized vehicles on the street and factory wastes dumped into rivers or closed water...
Soma MitraOnce a decrepit block of West Bengal, Lalgarh in West Midnapore district turned into a battlefield over the last few months, hundreds of women have taken to the streets showing slogans as they march in processions of protest.Why has...
Md Mozzammel HaqueTHE strain of H1N1 virus, that causes "swine flu", contains a combination of flu viruses that affect pigs, birds and humans. The virus that affects humans can spread from person to person more easily.H1N1 influenza spreads the same...
Mohammad Shahidul IslamMERE observance of the World Tourism Day with fanfare means nothing unless the issues plaguing tourism in Bangladesh are addressed. In Bangladesh tourism continues to be a non starter despite its pristine natural beauty, forests and wildlife, rivers...
Fish is no longer a favourite option for many city dwellers, as selling formalin-laced fish has become a rampant practice in the city's kitchen markets, endangering public health."The next time you go to the fish market beware of those fresh-looking...
Country's significant archaeological sites Sonargaon and Panam Nagar need to be protected for the benefit of posterity and to attract tourists, reports UNB."These historical sites are in danger of being lost for lack of coordinated programmes to protect them," said...
Faculty of Business of ASA University Bangladesh held a workshop on Preparation of a Business Plan recently at the Conference Hall of the university, says a press release.The workshop was arranged as part of the second preliminary round of ASA...
THAKURGAON, Sept 4 (UNB): Muggers stabbed a fertiliser trader indiscriminately and looted Tk 50,000 from him in Farabari Hat area of Sadar Upazila Wednesday night.Police later in a nightlong drive arrested two people in this connection. They were identified as...
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) in a raid Thursday night seized 1.3 kg heroin from Asrafabad Matbar Bazar under Kamrangirchar police station and detained two women in this connection from, reports BSS.According to a DNC release, a joint team...
RU Correspondent RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Sept 04: Rajshahi University (RU) recently opened an Engineering faculty. Five departments of the faculty are: Applied Physics and Electronics Engineering, Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Information & Communication Engineering and Material...
KHULNA, Sept 4 (BSS): A meeting of the 'Eviction Supervision Committee for Removing Illegally Constructed Buildings and Structures on Embankments Canals' was held Thursday.With Khulna City Corporation (KCC) panel Mayor Azmal Ahmed Tapon in the chair, the meeting was addressed,...
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