Boogie WoogieOn SONY Ent TV (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...
There is good news for Sri Lanka. On July 17, the World Bank made an upbeat forecast about the prospects of Sri Lanka. Naoko Ishi, the World Bank Sri Lanka Director, observed that the end of the armed conflict in...
Saquib MustafaWHEN economic activities in Bangladesh are getting slowed down alarmingly from energy shortages, it is absurd that its potential reserves of high energy -- some 2.5 billion tonnes of coal deposits of high grade -- are kept buried underground...
Ehsanul Haque Overfishing and pollution-related consequences is threatening the fish population worldwide. According to a recently-published report by an international team of ecologists and economists, a collapse of the marine food sources for humans may become inevitable due to such...
BANGLADESH Poultry Khamar Rakkha Jatiya Sangram Parishad (Bangladesh Poultry Farm Protection National Action Council) demanded banning of import of eggs and poultry birds from India. The poultry farmers, according to an earlier announcement by this organisation, would go for hunger...
THE prohibition of employment of children as domestic servants or by wayside hotels, motels, restaurants, teashops, resorts, or in other places must be strictly enforced. Without enforcement, the Child Labour Act remains meaningless. The employers of child labour should be...
Badrul Islam ENVIRONMENTALISTS and academics have called for a greater movement at national and international levels to resist what they said "India's conspiracy" to construct Tipaimukh dam without sharing information with Bangladesh. They also slammed the government's role in dealing...
Gopal SenguptaTHE plan to build a 42-storey skyscraper with 800 units of hotel rooms and condominiums at the heart of downtown Montreal has made big news in the greater Montreal area. In the second week of June, 2009 the Canadian...
BOTH the Japanese and the Chinese, who were proud of their nationality and language, are learning English extensively for the compelling reasons of English being the most widely and extensively used and understood language in international business. In present days,...
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's three-day visit to Bangladesh has been an enlivening experience for the local intelligentsia and the scientific community. In Bangladesh context, his lectures bear significance as the nation is in the midst of choosing its priorities for...
Bangladesh achieved independence 38 years ago, but we are not behaving like an independent people. Government policies are not often rational. For example, a government officer has to pay no income tax on his or her salary up to a...
BUSINESSES want deregulation and decontrol, in line with the principles of market economy, although healthy development of market economy requires effective and updated regulations. While bureaucratic impediments are not desirable, healthy growth of business activities requires efficient governmental regulatory bodies...
THE Charter of the United Nations expresses the resolve of the peoples of the world to save subsequent generations from the curse of war. The UN resolution 1572 (XV) of December 18, 1960, stresses on the education of youthful citizens...
LONDON, Jul 23 (AP): European stock markets fell modestly Thursday despite Asian gains earlier as investors pored over a raft of earnings across the continent and awaited another batch of US results.The FTSE index of leading British shares was down...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, July 23: Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) board of directors exchanged views with the outgoing Indian Assistant High Commissioner (HC) Subrata Bhattacharjee and Russian Consul General Oleg N Evdiv at the Chamber House Wednesday.They discussed matters...
NEW YORK, Jul 23 (Reuters): Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Thursday, as investors braced themselves for a slew of earnings news including results from Microsoft, McDonald's and American Express.At 5.10 a.m. ET futures...
TOKYO, July 23 (Bloomberg): Asian stocks rose for an eighth day, led by automakers and technology companies, as a weaker yen boosted the prospects for Japanese export earnings and US housing prices unexpectedly gained. Japan's Funai Electric Co., which gets...
WASHINGTON, July 23 (AFP): The International Monetary Fund yesterday welcomed China's progress on liberalizing its currency, but said some countries still view the yuan or renminbi as "substantially undervalued." The IMF executive board "welcomed the important progress made in the...
SINGAPORE, July 23 (AFP): Oil was higher in Asian trade today as investors focused on Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments about the US economy, analysts said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for September delivery, put on nine...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, July 23: Taiwan and Bangladesh are interested in working unitedly for ensuring overall economic development through proper utilisation of unique geographical location and prioritised market facilities.In this connection, Bangladesh based Taiwan Trade Centre (TTC) Director Woody Wang made...
Our CorrespondentTANGAIL, July 23: Farmers of the district are losing their interest in the cultivation of jute due to crisis of water for rotting jute.According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), 18,000 hectares of land were brought under jute...
TOKYO, July 23 (AFP): The dollar strengthened against the yen in Asian trade today as renewed worries about the US economy and banking sector rekindled demand for safe-haven assets, dealers said. The dollar rose to 93.70 yen in Tokyo morning...
OTTAWA, July 23 (Xinhua): Canada plans to dispatch consultants to about 160 of its embassies, consulates and high commissions around the world to test the drinking water there, local media reported yesterday. Drinking water from taps and bottles, and in...
SEOUL, July 23 (AFP): The operator of South Korea's stock market said today it has reached agreement with the Laotian government to jointly set up a stock exchange in the communist state next year. The Korea Exchange said it will...
PHUKET, (Thailand), July 23 (Reuters): North Korea has no friends left to shield it from the international community's demands that the country scrap its nuclear activities, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.Clinton said many nations had told...
The leaders of the US and Iraq have vowed that co-operation between the two nations can help bring peace to Iraq, during talks at the White House, reports BBC.US President Barack Obama pledged to keep to a commitment to withdraw...
PHUKET, (Thailand), July 23 (AP): Security forces guarding an Asian security conference on this resort island Thursday destroyed a motorcycle they suspected was loaded with explosives. It was later determined that the bike was not armed, an army official said.The...
A teenage girl whose heart was pushed to the wrong side of her body by a rare spine deformity has been cured by surgery, reports BBC.Koryn McFadden, an 18-year-old nursery nurse from Corby, Northants, had scoliosis, a curvature of the...
US strike may have killed bin Laden's sonWASHINGTON, July 23: One of Osama bin Laden's sons may have been killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan earlier this year, National Public Radio reported Wednesday. Saad bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda...
FE ReportThe Board of Investment (BoI) of Thailand has identified agricultural and light industry sectors such as frozen foods, leather and textile as a key driver of trade and investment between the two countries.The identification was made during a meeting...
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