BARISAL, Oct 8 (UNB): Barisal River Port, the second largest river port in the country, is under great threat as Kirtonkhola River has lost its navigability due to continued siltation. Bangladesh Water Transport Authority sources said more than 100 water...
Ten persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies. In Gazipur, three people were killed and two others injured when a truck rammed into a...
RANGPUR, Oct 8 (BSS): Mass-Line Media Centre (MMC) organised a face- to-face discussion meeting of the police officials and the people on law and order situation at Tapodhan union parisad hall room here Sunday.President of Tapodhan Grameen Advocacy Centre of...
BARISAL, Oct 8 (BSS): Commissioner of Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) Khan Sayeed Hasan has said here today that the strict security measures would be taken to ensure peaceful celebrations of puja in the district.He also said policemen will be posted...
GAIBANDHA, Oct 8 (BSS): Ekota, a local NGO, distributed clothes and mosquito nets among the poor and flood-hit people of Sadar Upazila in the district Saturday.A total of 1,500 people of Ghagoa, Kholahati and Malibari unions of Sadar Upazila were...
CHANDPUR, Oct 8 (BSS): A views exchange meeting was held at the conference room of the deputy commissioner Saturday to create awareness on the reasons of launch accidents and ways to avoid those for ensuring smooth plying of river vessels.The...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 8 (UNB): Diarrhoea that broke out in an alarming proportion in the district claimed life of a youth and affected over 150 people in last three days until Sunday.Sources said many diarrhoea-affected people rushed to Sadar hospital for...
CHUADANGA, Oct 8 (BSS): Preparations are almost complete to celebrate Durga Puja in the district the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community.A total of 67 puja mandaps are being set up in four upazilas of the district, sources said.
MADARIPUR, Oct 8 (BSS): The district administration has cancelled declaration of nine newspapers including a daily for violating the Press and Publications (Declaration and Registration) Act of 1973.The newspapers are the daily Maksud, weekly Arial Kha, weekly Madaripur Bani, weekly...
FE Report Board of directors and all officials of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) have expressed their condolences at the death of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Khatib and SJIBL Shari'ah Council Chairman Moulana Obaidul Huq. The Khatib died at the...
Coastguard members and police, in different raids, arrested three bandits and a top terror from Koyra Upazila Monday, reports UNB.Acting on a tip-off, the coastguard members raided Joymuni canal at noon and nabbed three bandits alongwith two guns from a...
The chief of finance of Daffodil Computers Ltd and secretary of Daffodil group, Rakib Sultan died Tuesday night at a city hospital. He was 48. He left behind his wife, one son and one daughter. He is buried in Chouddogram...
The 22nd death anniversary of noted journalist Amin Ahmed Chowdhury will be observed today, reports BSS.The former assistant editor of the defunct Bangladesh Times, correspondent of Voice of America and the Guardian, Amin Chowdhury died in 1985 at the age...
The flood that affected many parts of the country last month is still not a spent force. The first wave of flooding was repeated in a short period of time by another flood. Flood waters are yet to recede fully...
Shamsul Huq Zahid THE non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have, apparently, won the hearts of both bilateral and multilateral donors must be shell-shocked. The helmsmen of the NGOs did not expect such harsh observations from an organization-the Bangladesh chapter of the...
Amy YeeINDIA'S chaotic cities may have little in common with the manicured landscapes of Singapore, but the city-state of 4.5m is imparting its signature orderliness in new development zones sprouting up across the subcontinent.Companies such as Ascendas, Surbana, Jurong Consultants,...
Amy Kazmin ON its website, Diethelm Travel describes Burma as "truly the land that time forgot". It raves that Burma's three decades of "self-imposed isolation" have left a land of "unspoiled beauty and tranquillity" and an "emerald green" countryside where...
No elected government in the last decade and a half can claim complete or near control honesty and high character in preserving the character of vital state institutions. All of them had tampered with them in their bids to leave...
MANKIND has progressed in all spheres in the last century like never before in human history. Progress in some areas has been questionable or remain controversial. But there is no disagreement in sensible quarters that the driving force of this...
Hasan MahmudBANGLADESH has started attracting the attention of both the international media and academic community concerned with development now-a-days, particularly for a steadily increasing flow of remittances. In the previous economic year, Bangladesh has earned approximately $6.0 billion of remittances...
Tarequl Islam MunnaGLACIERS are ancient rivers of compressed snow that creep through the landscape, shaping the planet's surface. They are the Earth's largest freshwater reservoir, collectively covering an area the size of South America. Glaciers have been retreating worldwide since...
BRUSSELS, Oct 7 (AFP): The euro's recent record strength will be in focus Monday when finance ministers from the 13-nation Eurozone meet in Luxembourg to hammer out a joint message to take to an upcoming Group of Seven (G7) meeting....
BEIJING, Oct 7 (PTI): China, dubbed as "world's factory", has reached the midway of industrialisation while realising fast and steady economic growth, a report here claimed. Over the past five years the nation's industrial economy has been developing in a...
NEW DELHI, Oct 7 (PTI): Commerce Minister Kamal Nath and US Trade Representative Susan Schwab will meet in London next week at the behest of World Trade Organisation (WTO) chief Pascal Lamy to renew efforts for reaching a breakthrough in...
NEW DELHI, Oct 7 (AFP): "Made in India" could be the next big economic story with the country challenging China's position as the leading global manufacturing hub within five years, says a new report. Right now China is the favourite...
NEW DELHI, Oct 7 (PTI): They still mop floors in bungalows of posh colonies and middle-class residences. They still serve at roadside eateries. And worse, their presence in hazardous occupations only seems to grow bigger and bigger. One year after...
BANGKOK, Oct 7 (AFP): For now the streets of Yangon are quiet after Myanmar's bloody crackdown on protesters, but simmering public discontent over crushing poverty is likely to spark more civil unrest, experts say. The sharp fuel price hike that...
LONDON, Oct 7 (AFP): World oil prices fell further from historic highs this week amid news of rising crude reserves in the United States, which is the biggest global energy consumer. Oil and other dollar-denominated commodities were buoyed by a...
HONG KONG, Oct 7 (AFP): Asian currencies ended the week mixed against the US dollar, with the yen falling but the Australian and New Zealand dollars up, as traders look to solid US jobs data to influence the markets this...
HONG KONG, Oct 7 (AFP): The marriage of innovative technology and financing have led to a spread of energy efficient projects that are improving the quality of life for some of the poorest people across Asia. From solar energy to...
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