Despite having water-related 40 government organisations and at least 10 effective policies, the national water policy has failed to ensure a sustainable water supply management due to negligence and mismanagement, experts told a roundtable held in the city Monday, reports...
Three more families of army officers killed in the February 25-26 Pilkhana carnage received cheque for Tk 1.0 million (10 lakh) each and letter of compassion from Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina, reports UNB. A delegation on behalf of the...
The High Court (HC) Monday stayed for a month the criminal case facing by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Barrister Abdur Razzaq and his wife Saleha Siddiq, now on bail, reports UNB.Passing the interim order upon a writ petition, a division bench comprising...
FE ReportWorld Health Organisation (WHO) at a workshop in the city Monday urged the media to make people aware of measures against natural disasters, like cyclone, flood and earthquake.WHO and Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) jointly arranged the consultative...
The speakers at a function Monday urged the well-to-do section of people to come forward to extend support for the street children for their better livelihood, reports BSS.Around 0.4 million street children in the capital have been earning their livelihood...
The government is likely to incur a loss of about US$100 million in installation of two gas compressors, as the state-owned Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) is advancing with two tender proposals at much higher prices than the current international...
Our CorrespondentBrahmanbaria, Mar 23: The owners of a number of unauthorized pathological labs and clinics are fleecing the ignorant and innocent people capitalizing on the helplessness of the patients in eight upazilas of Brahmanbaria district including the district Town, sources...
Praising the newly elected government for their strong stance on gender, Netherlands Ambassador in Dhaka Bea ten Tusscher has urged the government to endorse soon the draft Domestic Violence Bill and Guidelines for Sexual Harassment as an important step forward...
President Zillur Rahman Monday underwent routine medical checkup at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), reports UNB. At the hospital, the President had eye, tooth and radiological tests, and then returned to Bangabhaban. CMH physicians Brig Gen Juberul Islam, Brig Gen Anwar...
Abbasuddin Afsari, vice-president of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), has been admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital, reports BSS.Mr Afsari, also a shift-in-charge of the daily Ittefaq and general secretary of Padma Setu Bastabayan Parishad, has...
Japan will provide $86,575 (approximately Tk 5.9 million) to Agrasara Buddhist Orphanage, a non-government organisation (NGO), for its Healthcare Centres in rural Chittagong area, reports UNB.
Speakers at a seminar Monday said humanoid robot can speak different languages, carry out roll calls and set tasks, scold children and make six facial expressions - anger, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness and happiness, reports BSS.They said the humanoid robot...
The Dutch Embassy in Bangladesh and BRAC University signed an agreement Monday under which the Netherlands Development Cooperation programme will provide Tk 504 million over five years to BRAC's Institute for Educational Development (IED), reports UNB. The agreement was signed...
BARISAL, Mar 23 (UNB): Environment activists here Saturday on the eve of World Water Day called for saving the Kirtonkhola River from pollution. They formed a human chain and held rally, organised by Barisal district Conscious Citizen Committee of TIB,...
THE revenue collection drive of the government often fails to meet its target due to various reasons that include non-cooperation of the taxpayers and laxity of the revenue officials in prevailing upon all those who are to pay taxes to...
E. Rasul BhuiyanTHE existing power plants in the country have a total generation capacity of over 5000 mw. But the same cannot be realised in many cases due to ageing machinery, lack of replacement and repairs. It is possible perhaps...
Sahidul HaqueBANGLADESH is otherwise known to be one of the cheapest places for doing business in Asia. However, this recognition as the lowest cost investment decision ought not to breed any self satisfaction among the policy planners. For, a short...
BASHUNDHARA Group's Corporate Office, attached with the Bashundhara City Sopping Mall, which is believed to be the largest of its kind in South Asia, was gutted in a devastating fire on March 13, 2009. The fire devoured the top five...
ACCORDING to a report of UNB (Bhola), a mad youth hacked five children to death and injured three other people at Zinnagarh village in Char Fashion upazila Sunday (March 22) when he was unshackled after faith healing.Police said the youth...
Professor Mahfuz R. ChowdhuryTHE world is currently gripped in a severe economic downturn. In fact, based on the economic outlook, many economists would venture to compare the current predicament with the Great Depression of the 1930s. The world is definitely...
Ambassador James F. MoriartyALMOST a century ago, America was locked in a battle against tuberculosis (TB), which killed thousands annually and was one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Today, even though a cure for drug-sensitive...
Salahuddin AhmedDEVELOPMENT requires participation from all categories of people. Countries like Bangladesh face tremendous obstacles to ensuring involvement of all people in the development process; especially, women in Bangladesh face social and economic impediments to contributing to its development process...
PARIS, March 23 (AFP): Trade unions across the world are to present to their governments today a five-point plan for action at the G20 London summit on the global financial crisis next month, their confederation said. The union plan calls...
With two weeks to go before the G20 leaders' summit in London, expectations have been deflated by a patent lack of progress. Grandiose talk of a "Bretton Woods II" has vanished. And as with the previous leaders' summit in November...
BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua): Developing countries deserve more say in the decision-making process of the reform of the international financial system, World Bank Vice President James Adams said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua here Sunday. "Developing countries as a...
WASHINGTON, March 23 (AFP): European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal yerterday that Europe doesn't need more stimulus spending, but that the ECB could lower its interest rate further to free up...
LONDON, Mar 23 (Reuters): Financier George Soros said the G20 summit next month must support developing nations to prevent further market turmoil."Institutions such as the International Monetary Fund face a novel task: to protect the periphery countries from a storm...
SINGAPORE, March 23 (AFP): Singapore's inflation rate climbed to its highest level in 28 years in 2008, with the poor being the hardest hit, the statistics department said today. The 6.5 percent rise in the consumer price index last year...
TOKYO, March 23 (AFP): Business confidence among top Japanese executives has slumped to its lowest level in at least five years as the economic crisis batters corporate profits, a government survey showed today. The gloomy snapshot of Japan Inc. showed...
SINGAPORE, Mar 23 (AFP): Oil prices rose in Asian trade today, driven by optimism in the financial markets ahead of an expected US government announcement of a plan to sell toxic assets, analysts said. New York's main futures contract, light...
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