TOKYO, Aug 22 (AFP): Japan's former defence chief Wednesday broke ranks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and said Tokyo should extend aid to North Korea if Pyongyang is abandoning its nuclear arsenal. Abe, a sworn foe of North Korea, has...
Speakers at a roundtable in the city Wednesday said the economic growth of the country could be sustained without foreign aid backing, reports BSS.They criticised the interference of World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the economic management...
UNICEF country representative in Bangladesh Louis George Arsenault Wednesday appreciated the initiatives taken by the caretaker government to face the current diarrhoea situation, reports BSS."Bangladesh is successfully facing the present diarrhoea situation during this time of natural calamity," he expressed...
The Nazrul Institute has chalked out elaborate programmes in observance of the 31st death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in a befitting manner, reports BSS. The programmes will begin with an art competition for children and juveniles at...
Kuwait government has sanctioned one million US dollars for the flood-affected people of Bangladesh, reports UNB.The amount has been provided to Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) to enable it to carry out emergency relief and rehabilitation work in the worst...
Over 90 per cent buildings in the capital city have been built violating the 'Building Construction Rules 1996' and Tk 20-25 crore is allegedly transacted in bribe annually in RAJUK only for approval of designs of such houses, reports UNB.This...
DINAJPUR, Aug 22 (UNB): A court here Tuesday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment and two others to five years for killing a man 10 years back.The court also fined lifer Jikrul Huq, son of Asiruddin and the two...
PIROJPUR, Aug 22 (UNB): Different banks and other organisations disbursed over Tk 421.5 million (42.15 crore) loans in the district in last fiscal year.Of the amount, Sonali Bank disbursed over Tk 29.1 million (2.91 crore), Agrani Bank over Tk 13...
KHULNA, Aug 22 (UNB): Rapid Action Battalion members arrested two people along with a touchstone statue worth about Tk 10 million at Nandanpur village in Rupsha Upazila early Tuesday.RAB members, acting on secret information, raided the house of Shibupodo Mondol...
JHENIDAH, Aug 22 (UNB): Some 89,860 hectares of land will be brought under Transplanted Aman cultivation in six upazilas of the district in the current season with an output target of 2.49 tonnes of rice. Department of Agricultural Extension sources...
PIROJPUR, Aug 21 (UNB): Relief and Rehabilitation Department implemented 101 development schemes in the district using 712 tonnes rice.The Department implemented the schemes under Rural Infrastructure Maintenance Programme.Of the total schemes, eight were implemented in sadar upazila, six in Jianagar,...
KURIGRAM, Aug 22 (UNB): At least 12 shops were gutted in a devastating fire that broke out at Kalibari Bazar in the district town Tuesday.Sources said the fire originated at a cotton shop of the bazar from an electric short...
COX'S Bazar, Aug 22 (UNB): An official was held on charge of taking bribe in Sadar Upazila Monday.Arunendra Kishore Chakraborty, upazila project implementation officer, was caught red-handed while taking Tk 20,000 as bribe from a contractor.Later, he was handed over...
NARSINGDI, Aug 22 (UNB): At least 10 people were critically injured in a fierce clash between two rival groups at Gopinathpur village in Raipura Upazila here Tuesday.Police and local people said there was a longstanding conflict between Ismail Mia and...
NARSINGDI, Aug 22 (UNB): Plainclothes police arrested three peddlers with 60 bottles of Indian phensidyl syrup from Baniasol area of the district town Tuesday.The arrested identified as Jewel (28), Abdur Razzak (30), and Mosammat Baby (22), hailed from Brahmanbaria district....
NARAIL, Aug 22 (UNB) : The police arrested a convicted fugitive from Mothbari village in Lohagara Upazila Sunday night.The arrested was Samad Sheikh of Mothbari village.Samad was sentenced to 32 years imprisonment in UP member Ayub murder case. Besides he...
President Iajuddin Ahmed has reiterated that the next parliamentary election would be held within the timeframe set by the Election Commission (EC).The President said this while outgoing Ambassador of Egypt Ismail Abdel Rahman Ghoneim made a farewell call on him...
Information and Law Adviser Mainul Hosein has urged newsmen to play responsible role in projecting news so that the government does not feel necessity to impose censorship under the Emergency Powers Rule."We don't like to impose censorship, but that does...
BARISAL, Aug 22 (UNB): Works for preparing voters' list will begin in the Barisal City Corporation (BCC) areas from September 22.A preparatory workshop in this connection will be held here tomorrow (Thursday). According to District Election Officer Manirul Islam, a...
Warid Telecom has provided Election Commission with 500 laptop computers with scanners and printers for the voters' list and national identity (ID) card project. The donation worth more than Tk 20 million is the highest contribution by a private company...
A special court sentenced Wednesday Mahbuba Sultana, wife of detained former BNP lawmaker Mosaddek Ali Falu, to eight years in jail, five years being rigorous imprisonment (RI), in an income tax-evasion case.Judge M Firoze Alam of the special court, set...
WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (AFP): A US senator said yesterday that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke pledged to use "all tools available" to avert a worsening of the housing and credit problems roiling financial markets. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd made the...
NEW YORK, Aug 22 (PTI): The majority of CEO's of leading companies believe the global trade environment is having a favourable impact on their businesses which is going to continue in the near future, a New York Stock Exchange Survey...
TOKYO, Aug 22 (AFP): The Bank of Japan met today on interest rates for the first time since turmoil erupted on global markets, thumping stocks and driving up the yen, and putting another rate rise in doubt. Until recently many...
KATHMANDU, Aug 22 (Xinhua): Ending a month-long confusion over the future management structure of the troubled Nepal Bank Limited (NBL), both the government and the World Bank (WB) have agreed to handover the NBL management to a group of experts...
TOKYO, Aug 22 (AFP): Japan's trade surplus shrank by a bigger than expected 21.1 per cent in July from a year earlier, hit by higher oil import costs and sluggish exports to the United States, the government said today. Analysts...
NEW DELHI, Aug 22 (PTI): Trucks from India and Pakistan will begin rolling into each other's territory from October 1, in a move aimed at boosting trade between the two countries. The two sides have agreed on a series of...
SYDNEY, Aug 22 (AFP): The Australian economy is set for strong growth in 2007 and 2008 as household spending remains robust and resource exports continue to boom, according to a survey released today. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute leading index, which indicates...
SINGAPORE, Aug 22 (AFP): Crude oil prices were firmer in Asian trade today on bargain hunting after overnight falls on easing concerns as vital US energy facilities were spared from Hurricane Dean's fury, dealers said. New York's main contract, light...
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22 (AFP): A global health group today urged governments across Asia to enact laws against massive malnutrition that would require food producers to include vitamins and minerals in their products. Lack of vitamins and minerals have left...
© 2024 - All Rights with The Financial Express
