NEW YORK , Aug 28 (Agencies): A new, large study suggests that treating women who develop diabetes during pregnancy greatly reduces the chances that their baby will become obese during childhoodThe research found that the higher the mother's blood sugar...
ATHENS, (Greece), Aug 28 (Agencies): Foreign firefighters and aircraft joined the battle Tuesday against blazes in southern Greece, and officials expressed optimism that wildfires burning some of the country's lushest landscape could be brought under partial control. The fires, which...
VIENNA, Aug 28 (AFP): Iran has cleared up questions from the UN nuclear agency about its experiments with plutonium, a potential atom bomb material, according to a UN- Iranian working document released by Iran Monday. The plutonium issue is one...
KABUL, Aug 28 (AFP): NATO and Afghan troops killed more than 20 Taliban insurgents in separate battles in southern Afghanistan, including a raid on a rebel bunker system, the alliance said Tuesday. Militants armed with machine guns and rocket propelled-grenades...
BAGHDAD, Aug 28 (AFP): US-led air and ground assaults in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala have killed at least 33 suspected rebels, the military said Tuesday. It said several hundred US and Iraqi troops took part in the operation...
Olmert and Abbas meet ahead of Mideast peace conferenceJERUSALEM, Aug 28: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will meet on Tuesday for a second time this month ahead of a peace conference called by US President...
Arifa As AlamIt was about 11:30am on February 26, 2007. A woman was flying holding a thin rope connected with a helicopter. Another woman was seen trying to get out of a building using phone cables, but failed. She fell...
Some time in mid 1999 the United Nations made the observation that over 50% of the human population now lives in cities. In a matter of 200 years people of all races and backgrounds, representing all cultures on the planet...
The global house price boom continues in 2007, albeit at a much slower pace and with different set of countries. A dramatic slowdown has taken place in several countries in Europe. House prices in Estonia, 2005 and 2006's star performer,...
A Dhaka court Thursday placed two Dhaka University professors Anwar Hossain and Harun-or-Rashid on another spell of four-day remand in a separate case. The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court for Dhaka issued the remand order, when the DU teachers were taken...
Detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's eyes glinted Wednesday when she saw her relatives, only to tear when she saw the picture of her 1 ½-month old grand son. She cried holding the photo of the newborn son of her...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to expand its survey to identify new taxpayers in district towns from January next year after the surveys conducted in the city corporations and metropolitan towns proved successful.On March 29...
A special court trying high-profile corruption suspects Monday sentenced detained former communications minister and BNP stalwart Barrister Nazmul Huda to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and his wife Sigma Huda three years of simple imprisonment in a graft case.Another special...
Backing the state plea, the Supreme Court (SC) Monday further stayed the High Court (HC) orders that granted bail to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in two "extortion" cases, reports UNB.A six-member full bench of the Appellate Division, chaired by...
The government totally withdrew the curfew clamped on six divisional cities, including Dhaka, amid campus violence as law-and-order situation has now improved. "Curfew has been completely lifted as law-and-order situation improved following all-out efforts of law- enforcing agencies and cooperation...
The state-owned Petrobangla refused to supply gas to all but one of the seven under-construction power plants in Chittagong, Comilla and Feni districts, apparently for an administrative mismatch, reports UNB. Petrobangla's refusal came on account of nagging gas crisis, particularly...
FE ReportBangladesh Bank Governor Salehuddin Ahmed said Monday a set of heterodox policies in tandem with fiscal, monetary and trade policies should be adopted to reduce the gap between demand and supply of essential commodities."Monetary policy is not the sole...
COX'S BAZAR, Aug 27 (UNB): International telecommunications including internet services were disrupted as suspected miscreants cut off underground optical fibre cable at Eidgaon of Sadar Upazila Monday noon.Cox's Bazar Submarine Landing Station sources said the optical line was severed in...
The Supreme Court (SC) Monday set September 17 for the hearing on separation of the judiciary from the executive, report agencies. The SC also asked the government to submit an affidavit of a 4,500-strong organogram for judicial service by September...
Farhan Bokhari, FT Syndication ServiceISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's former prime minister, has been urged by his party to return from exile within three weeks amid growing turmoil surrounding General Pervez Musharraf. Mr Sharif's political prospects in Pakistan have been boosted...
Retired High Court judge Habibur Rahman Khan will start investigation into the recent violent protests by Dhaka University students from today (Tuesday). He told the media that the inquiry would continue for 15 days. The investigation will look into how...
A record number of 484,951 people have been cleared for overseas employment this year and the caretaker government is exploring newer job markets, said Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury. "The government is keenly aware of the problems of Bangladeshi workers...
The High Court Monday issued rule upon the government to explain why the CHT peace treaty signed with the erstwhile Shanti Bahini leaders in 1997 should not be declared without lawful authority. After a brief hearing on a Public Interest...
M Azizur RahmanThe Power Division is drafting a comprehensive plan to increase power supply in the country by exploring all possible avenues to meet the mounting demand for electricity."Installing new coal-fired power plants, importing electricity from power-surplus neighbouring countries and...
Shakhawat Hossain The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to start implementation of internet and interconnectivity project to facilitate taxpayers to submit income tax returns through online, official source said.The project, to be implemented over a period of three...
FE ReportStock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to rally for the second consecutive day Monday amid buying spree by the investors.Market operators said the stock market has been showing buoyancy in recent time due to higher flow...
Bangladeshis and Bangalees over the world observed Monday the 31st death anniversary of national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam, reports bdnews24.com.Almost a century past, Nazrul, also the rebel poet, had written a Bangla lyric which, roughly translated, reads, "I'll...
FE ReportThe central bank will soon ask all commercial banks to bring transaction of the savings instruments under automation system, sources said.They said the purpose of automation of such transaction is to check forgery and make the process easier and...
FE ReportSpeakers at a workshop in Dhaka Monday underlined the need for devising strategies soon to reduce economic disparity among different regions of the country.They felt that problems of the less-developed regions and districts needed to be identified first before...
Refayet Ullah MirdhaThe Essar Group of India has shown keen interest in setting up a hot-strip steel mill under joint venture with similar local companies in Bangladesh to meet the growing demand for raw materials for the local steel and...
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