LONDON, Aug 24 (AP): Immediately after Pakistan's highest court ruled he could return, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he would go home soon to lead his party's campaign to oust President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who exiled Sharif eight...
The results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations will be published tomorrow (Sunday). The results of Alim, Fajil and Kamil held under Madrasah Education Board, HSC (Business Management) under Bangladesh Technical Education Board and Diploma-in-Business Studies examinations under...
Government regrets the incidents of harassment of journalists during the curfew hours and terms it 'unexpected.' It also cautioned the concerned law enforcement officials so that such incidents were not repeated, said a PID handout issued Friday night. The handout...
KHULNA, August 24: Khulna City Corporation (KCC) here Friday inked an agreement with Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) on the promotion of renewable energy (PRE). The agreement envisages a Tk 0.360 million (3.60 lakh) project to conduct a...
The Power Ministry wants the Rural Power Company Limited (RPCL) to settle its dispute with the former German-based LIPPS (Lahmeyer International Palli Power Services) outside the court, reports UNB.The Power Ministry has already requested the Law Ministry to take measures...
LONDO, Aug 24(AP): Oil prices rose Friday as stock markets across Europe recovered earlier losses. Confirmation that the Mexican oil industry was able to avoid major damage during Hurricane Dean also affected prices.Energy markets had been falling recently despite the...
Peter Smith FT Syndication ServiceSYDNEY: Australia is set to crack down on Chinese clothing and textile products after excessive levels of the cancer-causing agent formaldehyde were discovered in imported blankets.The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Department of Health...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has renovated and expanded its Trade Information Centre (TIC) with all modern facilities aiming to narrow down the gap between foreign buyers and local exporters for boosting the country's foreign trade. "We are contemplating to...
Pakistan, Britain sign prisoner transfer dealISLAMABAD, AUG 24 (AP): Pakistan and Britain signed anagreement Friday to allow inmates in each other's prisons servetheir sentences in their home countries.The agreement will allow some of the 428 Pakistanis imprisoned inBritain to serve...
TOKYO: Stocks fell in most Asian markets Friday as traders locked in profits before the weekend due to lingering concerns about US housing loan problems.Share prices rose in China, where stocks continued their recent bull run, and in India, where...
FE ReportThe caretaker government has taken initiatives to drop less important projects under the current annual development programme (ADP) in order to use funds for post-flood rehabilitation schemes and priority areas.The Planning Commission (PC) has already issued a set of...
The soil on Mars may contain microbial life, according to a new interpretation of data collected more than 30 years ago, reports Reuters.Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, said the Viking spacecraft may have found signs of a...
JHENIDAH, Aug 24 (UNB): Outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML-Janajuddha) has threatened to kill five journalists in Shailakupa Upazila of the district.The five newsmen who received death threat were identified as Bimal Kumar Saha, district correspondent of Daily Ittefaq, Akmal...
Families are worrying about the two Dhaka University teachers joint forces picked up from the teachers' quarters on Fuller Road early Friday, reports bdnews24.com.The joint forces detained Dhaka University Teachers Association general secretary, Anwar Hossain and Harun-ar-Rashid, dean of social...
MYMENSINGH, Aug 24 (BSS): The work for preparing voter list with photographs and national ID cards are going on in full swing with much enthusiasm in the pourasava area here.Election Commission in cooperation with Bangladesh Army is conducting the work.District...
RANGPUR, Aug 24 (BSS): The massive fish-farming project "Ensuring Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in Poverty-prone Greater Rangpur" launched by the government at a cost of about Taka 120 million(12 crore) is progressing well in the area, officials said Friday.The...
BARISAL, Aug 24 (UNB): Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested five criminals, including two convicted fugitives recently.RAB-8 sources said Mehdi Hassan Murad (24) a top terror of the city and a fugitive, awarded 108 years jail, was arrested from Kawnia...
Security men arrested Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) president Azizul Bari Helal from his residence in the city Friday morning, reports UNB.JCD sources said Helal was picked up at about 7.00am. Police also searched nearby places of the Dhaka University campus...
RANGPUR, Aug 24 (BSS): Work on preparing a fresh voters' list with photographs and national identity cards (NICs) in Rangpur pourasabha area is progresses successfully with huge enthusiasm among the common people.Officials sources said the pilot project dealing with the...
RANGPUR, Aug 24 (BSS): Different government, non- government and donor organisations with the help of the armed forces have further intensified post-flood relief, agro-rehabilitation and medicare services in greater Rangpur districts, official sources said last night.At the same time, the...
RANGPUR, Aug 24 (BSS): Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) is providing free medicare service and rehabilitation programme to the people affected by tuberculosis and leprosy in Chilmari Upazila of Kurigram district.Dozens of hardcore poor, distressed and helpless TB and leprosy patients...
KISHOREGANJ, Aug 24 (UNB): Department of Public Health Engineering has taken an initiative to set up 547 deep tubewells to ensure supply of safe water as arsenic has been detected in 16,322 hand driven tubewells of the district.Officials said arsenic...
BENAPOLE, Aug 24 (BSS): Members of Bangladesh Rifles detained a terrorist and gun runner and seized two revolvers, one pipe-gun and four bullets from Shahjadpur under Chaugachha Upazila in Jessore in the early hours of today.Sources said, acting on a...
WHILE the manpower export business of the country has been flourishing, the demand for issuance of more and more passports has increased exponentially. The processes of both manpower export and the issuance of passports have also become known for having...
Forrest CooksonTo achieve this, the government is: attacking syndicates and others accused of raising the food prices unreasonably; creating parallel markets to sell food at low prices; importing more food supplies; and increasing food production through greater provision of credit,...
Syed Ishtiaque Reza KILLING of eight people including five students on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway last week once again revealed that the roads and highways are not safe in the country. There are deaths on the highways in many parts of...
Ralph AtkinsThe Mannheim-based ZEW institute's "economic sentiment" indicator fell for the third consecutive month to the lowest level since December last year. At minus 6.9 points, down from 10.4 points in July, the index remains significantly below its historical average.The...
EVEN a poor and developing country like Bangladesh can start making good use of the computers to achieve efficiency and transparency in its governmental functions. There are many areas in Bangladesh where the use of the computer can revolutionise the...
A newspaper reported that the default loans in the country's banking system, are rising fast. According to that report, the total amount of default loans was some 464.9 billion taka till the end of June of the present yearIt is...
Abhay Singh and Subramaniam SharmaKarthik Agashe, a 27-year-old software salesman, has changed jobs four times in his 4 1/2-year career. Manjit Singh, 29, who met Agashe in 2005 when they worked for U.S. software maker Oracle Corp. in India's technology...
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