KHULNA, Sept 1 (UNB): The second phase of the work to prepare the voters' list with photographs and National Identity (ID) card started in the city Thursday.The first phase of the work started here at 31 centres on August 26....
The Awami League (AL) will give Sheikh Hasina something more attractive if she left the party chief's post willingly. AL presidium member Amir Hossain Amu said this while briefing journalists at his residence at Eskaton in the city Saturday, reports...
Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury left for Russia Saturday night on a three-day visit. The visit is in response to an invitation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as Dhaka and Moscow would like to set their ties...
CHUADANGA, Sept 1 (UNB): The rice and paddy procurement drive in the district has failed to achieve the target this season, as its price is higher than the government rate in the local market.The procurement drive across the country started...
SHARIATPUR, Sept 1 (UNB): Potato and chilli cultivation had been hampered due to shortage of seeds caused by the recent floods in the district."We don't need any relief, we want seeds and fertiliser," said flood-affected farmers of the district. Farmers...
GOPALGANJ, Sept 1 (UNB): Two minor boys including one man were killed in separate road mishaps at Bedgram bus-stand in the district town Wednesday and Thursday.Police said Tariqul (7), son of Kabir Molla of Gohata area of the town, while...
Security guards of the Green Tower Apartment on Babor Road in the city's Mohammadpur area were beaten up seriously by tenant of a flat of the tower Md Shamim Rahman and his cohorts recently. An FIR was filed by flat...
SIRAJGANJ, Sept 1 (UNB): Police seized a truck loaded with 65 sacks of urea fertiliser from Chandidgati area of Sadar Upazila Thursday night and arrested three smugglers in this connection.Acting on a tip-off CID police halted the truck at Chandidgati...
COMILLA, Sept 1 (UNB): A day-labourer was killed and three others injured when a bus ran over them, which was hijacked by the miscreants at Monohorpur in the town Saturday morning.Witnesses said bus driver Rafiq got down from the bus...
FE ReportThe qul-khwani of Mir Ayesha Begum, mother of journalists Mashuk Chowdhury, Raihan M Chowdhury and Ashraf Haider Chowdhury, was held at Hazipara residence of Khilgaon area in the city Friday. Mir Ayesha, wife of late Altafur Rahman Chowdhury, died...
COMILLA, Sept 1 (UNB): Detective Brach (DB) of police seized Indian smuggled saris and three-pieces worth about Tk 3.5 million from Krishnapur area of Sadar Dakkhin Upazila Saturday.On secret information, police chased a gang of smugglers while they were carrying...
Ali Arshad Rashu and Md Shahjahan Mian were elected president and general secretary of Tangail District Juba Parishad in Dhaka respectively, said a press release. The election was held at the temporary office of the parishad in the city Friday....
Shahin Ara Haque (55), former Member of Parliament (MP) of Bogra-Joypurhat constituency, passed away at Khidmah Hospital at 3:30 pm Friday. She was buried at Shahjahanpur graveyard in the city Saturday. Her Qul-khwani will be held Monday after Asr prayer...
Susan FerroaWhen the first call was made on a mobile phone back in 1973, it was a life-changing moment. It may not have felt like it at that time but since mobile phones became commercially available in the mid-1980s, the...
Lynn TanKeep software simple and flexible--at least that is what some users want. According to the latest study by IDC, simplicity and flexibility are the two key factors that businesses in the Asia-Pacific region consider when investing in software. In...
A fantasy plague that accidentally ran amok in the Internet's most popular game world, populated by nine million flesh-and-blood players, may help scientists predict the impact of genuine epidemics, according to a study released Tuesday. Virtual playgrounds such as World...
US Internet titan Yahoo on Monday is introducing an upgraded free e-mail service with enhancements that include letting people send text messages from computers to mobile telephones. The improved Yahoo! Mail being rolled out around the world in the coming...
Virtual police officers will soon begin visible patrols on Chinese Internet sites to warn surfers they are being monitored, Beijing authorities said in comments published Wednesday. The images of the "Beijing Internet Police", one male and one female dressed in...
Rhys BlakelyNokia today stepped up its defence of the mobile market, launching a new range of handsets and an online music store in an attempt to counter the threat posed by Apple's iPhone. The Nokia Music Store will be accessible...
Google and Yahoo are the top online brand names for US consumers, with MySpace a strong contender among young Internet users, a survey showed Monday. The survey by JupiterResearch showed Google was a favourite online brand for 36 per cent...
M A Islam WHEN I was a student of class seven, my class teacher often said to us in the class: "Toder ichcha nai, agroho nai, ki jey hobey toderkey diey" (you do not have will power, you do not...
Ashequl IslamWHILE making a sea journey from Japan to South Africa via Sri Lanka, I became intimate with a sailor who was from the Philippines. I was impressed with the capability of the Philipinos in using English language. I was...
Fakhrul Islam PABLO Ruiz Picasso is indisputably a brilliant name in the field of 20th century art and painting. He is the first one who introduced a realistic strain in painting and gave more stress on the abstract than merely...
Della Bradshaw IT is a rare business school programme that invokes in its participants a similar fervour to that experienced in a revivalist religious meeting. But this would appear to be the case with Srikumar Rao's elective course, Creative and...
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Financial Times (FT) jointly have arranged an essay competition. Six awards will be granted to the top papers as judged by the awards committee: gold award US$20,000, silver awards, each US$10,000 and 3...
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Shakhawat Hossain The comfortable forex reserve requirement of the central bank of Bangladesh has increased nearly to US$ 5.0 billion (500 crore) against the previous requirement of $3.0 billion, which is needed to meet the country's import bills of three...
Siddique Islam The country's overall balance of payments (BoP) situation continued to maintain a healthy trend in the last fiscal mainly due to improvements both in current and financial accounts. The current account balance recorded a surplus in the fiscal...
FE Report President of International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh (ICC-B) Mahbubur Rahman Saturday urged all concerned to make allout efforts for not only exploring new markets for apparel export but also diversifying export products.He noted that Bangladesh with a narrow export...
Detained former prime minister and Awami League (AL) chief Sheikh Hasina Saturday said her party's working committee would decide whether or not to go for dialogue with the Election Commission (EC) on electoral reforms, reports UNB.Advocate Khandaker Moniruzzaman, tax lawyer...
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