Food Minister Abdur Razzaq said that the government would introduce a new system so that farmers could sell paddy at the price set by the government, reports bdnews24.com. The farmers are counting losses as they sell paddy at Tk 380-Tk...
FE ReportIndustries Minister Dilip Barua said Saturday he has asked the finance ministry to impose non-tariff barriers on import of the commodities that are also produced locally to promote domestic industries."Many Bangladeshi products are now recognised overseas as brand items,...
FE ReportA clash on Friday night between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Dhaka College left 10 students injured, the police said.The clash between Tareq group and Titu group erupted at around 2:00pm after some students loyal to...
CHITTAGONG, May 23 (UNB): A 24-mw rental power plant at Barabkunda in Sitakundu Upazila went into generation Saturday to feed the power-starved national grid, at a time when the country was passing through electricity crunch.Habib Group set up the plant...
NEW YORK, May 23 (bdnews24.com/Reuters): Facebook and Twitter have helped make social networking a household word. Now they need to make money. Efforts to monetise the popular Internet services are increasingly a priority within the two companies, with Facebook Chief...
THE chairman of the parliamentary standing committee for the planning ministry has urged the government to take immediate steps to stop lands meant for agriculture from being used for other purposes. This was reported in this paper last Wednesday where...
Syed Fattahul AlimEducation is the single most important criterion that determines a country's status within the community of nations in the world. This part of the world including Bangladesh was historically known for great scholars in every branch of learning....
Niaz MorshedBANGLADESH has diplomatic missions in over 50 countries. But are they enough to advance the country's trade and economic interests? In the vast and highly resourceful South America, for example, Bangladesh has its lone embassy in Brazil, the continent's...
THE nation is shocked and amazed at the amount of corruption charges alleged against the erstwhile Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Chief Whip, all belonging to a particular political party. No wonder instead of being ashamed of, they preferred to deny...
Entrepreneurs do not get the necessary statistics for setting up new industries. For instance when there were 10 or 15 vegetable oil industries they ran on profit. Now, more than 100 such industries are in operation, many of them at...
MANY countries spend much on awareness against AIDS, a global menace. We are still busy finding a strategy to keep the people out of the harms way.Any sex-starved person be infected by sex workers. Sex for money is not supported...
Syed JamaluddinWITH the spill-over from the US financial crisis affecting the Asian economies in the first quarter of this year, these countries are set for a slow drive on bumpy roads. In recent figures, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects...
Syed Shahid HossainTHE Mongla Sea Port is situated in the southwestern parts of Bangladesh. The previous name of this port was 'Chalna Port' but the place now has too shallow water and subsequently had to go further down to keep...
Md. Ashraf HossainAfter having gone through the write-up, "Corporatization of TCBL," by Mr. Manzur Ahmed that appeared in the Financial Express in its issue on May 20, 2009. We do appreciate the issues raised by the writer. Mr. Ahmed's opinion...
Prof. Lutfor RahmanThe UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Initially there was no UNESCO rather it was UNECO that means Science was not under consideration even in the developed countries of Europe and America. The delegates'...
Enayet Rasul BhuiyanMore serious is the issue of the Rohingyas. The Rohingyas are Muslims who inhabit the Arakan region facing Bangladesh. For their looking like Bangladeshis or ethnicity and their religion , they have been always under harassment by the...
Stever R. Hurst In soaring rhetoric, Barack Obama ran through his logic for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, deliberately planting himself on the middle ground between his conservative critics - led by Dick Cheney - and those to the left...
Russia, its appetite for cheap poultry meat growing, is spending billions of dollars developing its poultry farms to slash its dependence on imports and squeeze U.S. suppliers from their biggest export market.The expansion could halve the share of imports in...
There is no such thing as the missing link. For all its popular appeal the concept has no meaning in science because there is no fossil that can fully explain an evolutionary transition all on its own. Even in the...
Syed Fattahul AlimIn the very advanced countries every year vaccines are developed that protect people from the attack of the seasonal flu. Seasonal flu is not a harmless disease. It kills. Every year different strains of seasonal flu take their...
Najmuddin A ShaikhThe curtain has at long last fallen on the destructive and polarising campaign of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, which claimed more than 70,000 lives over the last 26 years. Led by Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tamil Tigers...
Abdul Haleem Although the stiff resistance offered by Taliban fighters -- ever since the group's emergence in 1994 --has proved them a force to reckon with, their inflexible and dogmatic approach has always diminished their chance to come to power....
Ameer HamzaAlthough many people, men specially, had much to resent about developments during the early waves of Western women's liberation movement, there was no dearth of cerebrally and spiritually-endowed males across the world who began to see the merits of...
GP BCB National Cricket Academy team clinched the five-match one-day series 2-1 beating visiting Sri Lanka Development squad by 13 runs in the keenly contested 5th and last one day match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium at Mirpur in...
Bangladesh national cricket team leaves the city for London this (Friday) morning to take part in the ICC World T20 Cricket that will begin in England on June 5, reports UNB.Skipper Mohammad Ashraful and his deputy Mashrafe Bin Mortaza will...
MADRID, May 22 (AFP): Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola believes that Manchester United are the best team in the world but he is confident that if his team are able to dominate possession then they can pass their way to success....
KARACHI, May 22 (AFP) : Pakistan is ready to propose a neutral venue for the World Cup 2011 matches of which it was stripped in a bid to find a solution to an increasingly bitter dispute, the PCB chairman said...
DURBAN, May 22 : South African tourism operators are seeing marketing gold in the 2010 World Cup, a chance to sell the country as a destination to foreign travellers long after the games are over. "We have no doubt that...
Glenn McGrath has expressed his disappointment at not being given a chance by the Delhi Daredevils to prove his fitness during this season's IPL. He is contracted with Delhi next year as well, but McGrath hinted that he may not...
DUESSELDORF, May 22(AFP): Italy are still in with a chance of reaching the final of the World Team Cup here after Andreas Seppi upset Serbia's Viktor Trojcki 6-1, 6-4 Friday to keep his team's hopes alive. The Italians need to...
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