FE ReportGerman development lender KFW has agreed to convert a credit line into grants to help Bangladesh step up its major renewable energy programme, officials have said.The Frankfurt-headquartered bank will dole out more than US$12 million (9.0 million euros) in...
FE ReportDhaka stocks closed steady in the heavily-fluctuating market Sunday, the opening day of the week.The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) sank to the one and a half years low before recovering some points after the first...
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) Sunday approved a proposal moved by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to procure three vehicle mounted frequency jammers (VMFJs) for ensuring the VIPs' security, reports UNB.Initially, one VMFJ will be procured and then...
The High Court ordered a three-month status quo Sunday keeping Saju Hosein as printer and publisher of the Bangla newspaper Daily Ittefaq, reports bdnews24.com. It also asked the government to explain why the Dhaka district magistrate's order declaring Anwar Hossain...
ISLAMABAD, APR 5 (AP): A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shiite mosque south of the Pakistani capital on Sunday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more in the latest carnage to hit the U.S.-allied nation, officials said.Violence in Pakistan has...
SEOUL, April 5 (AP): North Korea fired a rocket over Japan Sunday, defying Washington, Tokyo and others who suspect the launch was cover for a test of its long-range missile technology. President Barack Obama warned the move would further isolate...
PRAGUE, April 5 (AP): President Barack Obama says he will convene a global summit by year's end to discuss the protection, reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons.Obama outlined his comprehensive strategy on reducing the spread and existence of nuclear...
QUETTA, April 5 (AFP): Pakistani and Afghan officials were Sunday preparing to send home the bodies of 46 Afghans found crammed into a truck container believed to have been bound for Iran, officials said.The container carrying around 110 people was...
Iraqi police officer killed by roadside bombBAGHDAD, April 5: Iraqi police officials say two roadside bombs in Iraq's western Anbar province have killed one officer and wounded three other people. Police Maj Khalil Jabbar says a roadside bomb targeting a...
MOSCOW, April 5 (Reuters): Russia and the United States will start talks on a new deal to cut nuclear warheads before the end of the month, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying Saturday.Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...
BRATISLAVA, April 5 (AFP): Slovakia's President Ivan Gasparovic was re-elected to a second term in office after defeating the first woman to reach a runoff vote, official results showed Sunday.Gasparovic won 55.5 per cent of the vote in Saturday's election...
League champions Abahani Limited completed their Metropolis Premier Division Cricket League engagements with a frustrating four-wicket loss to league runners-up Surjo Tarun Club in the last league match at the BKSP ground in Savar Sunday, reports UNB.In the day's other...
WELLINGTON, Apr 5 (AFP): Opener Gautam Gambhir scored a magnificent 167 to tighten India's stranglehold on New Zealand in the third and deciding Test here Sunday. India were 531 runs ahead of New Zealand and had reached 349 for five...
Bangladesh and Vietnam, as champions of group B and A, qualified for the Group-3 of Davis Cup Asia Oceania Zone after the Group-4 matches at the Ramna National Tennis Complex in the city Sunday, reports UNB. Bangladesh and Vietnam will...
Bangladesh Boys Club registered a five-wicket win over Azad Sporting Club in the day's lone match of the Metropolis First Division Cricket League at the Dhaka University ground Sunday, reports UNB.Batting first after winning the toss, Azad SC were all...
South Africa 132 for 3 (Smith 40) beat Australia 131 (Ferguson 50, Parnell 4-25, Steyn 4-27) by seven wickets A brutal new-ball effort from Wayne Parnell and Dale Steyn set up a comprehensive seven-wicket win for South Africa that levelled...
The leaders of the Group of 20 (G20), a club of the world's largest economies, ended their London meeting last Thursday agreeing on a set of measures which, if implemented, would set a new era of international cooperation. The leaders...
Shahiduzzaman KhanCOUNTRY'S power supply situation has turned critical despite allout government efforts to improve it. In order to continue irrigation for Boro crops, power supply is being diverted to the harvested fields by stopping supply to some of the fertiliser...
Fazle Rashid in New YorkTHE Group of Twenty (G-20) world leaders, meeting in London at summit level, fought back determinedly the deep divides in the group and pledged $1.1 trillion in fresh funds to emerging nations to resurrect the paralysed...
Prof. Lutfor RahmanON November 23, 2008, a short article with the title; Scientists in Politics, was published in a daily newspaper of Bangladesh. The article was written before the parliament election was held. The main theme of the article was...
BANGLALINK is the second largest mobile operator in Bangladesh. After acquisition of Sheba Telecom, it came to the market in 2005. It made some attractive offers from the very start. So it could take the position of the second largest...
AFTER all these incidents, does the Prime Minister still think that the followers of the student wing of her party are inspired by the noble ideas of the language martyrs of 1952? This thinking is devoid of realism in the...
I have been a teacher of a non-government secondary school in the city for more than twelve years. I have to set creative questions in the first term exams and do School Based Assessment (SBA) though I have no training...
Maswood Alam KhanIT is for sure that the global output will shrink at a high rate in the next few months or, maybe, the next few years, no matter how many more billions of dollars are injected to stimulate the...
Md. Lutful KabirBANKING sector in Bangladesh is passing through a historic moment after declaration of parallel implementation plan of Basel II (BRPD Circular-9 dated 31.12.08) by Bangladesh Bank (BB) -- a parallel run during FY 2009 with the existing capital...
STRASBOURG, France, April 4 (AFP): NATO leaders began talks Saturday to plan a new Afghan strategy at the alliance's 60th anniversary summit on the Rhine, amid disagreement over its future secretary general.The leaders were to discuss a new strategy for...
SEOUL, April 4 (AP): High winds may have forced North Korea to delay its rocket launch, despite the country's insistence Saturday that preparations were complete for the liftoff that many suspect is intended to test the country's long-range missile capabilities.Regional...
WASHINGTON, April 4 (AFP): The United States wants to forge a common strategy with Asia to coax military-run Myanmar out of isolation, a senior official said Wednesday, suggesting six-way talks with North Korea could be a model.President Barack Obama's administration...
Suu Kyi's US backers plead to keep sanctionsWASHINGTON, April 4: US Congress supporters of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi pleaded to keep sanctions on the military regime as a key senator said efforts to isolate the junta had...
COLOMBO, April 4 (AFP): Sri Lankan security forces destroyed three Tamil Tiger boats Saturday and killed at least 18 guerrillas trying to escape a major military ground offensive, defence officials said.Tiger rebels are battling to resist an military assault that...
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