FE Report The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have urged the affected countries to ensure safe feeding of millions of infants following the ongoing melamine-contaminated milk crisis in China. The two agencies in...
One of the corridors of an abandoned Wapda building, housing some 101 stranded Pakistani families, collapsed near Journalists' Colony in Mirpur-11 in the city Saturday, trapping members of five of the families in their rooms, reports UNB.A 20-foot passage on...
Home Adviser Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin got admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for treatment Saturday evening, reports UNB. CMH sources said the Adviser was admitted to hospital at around 8:30 pm and he was sent into the ICU.
Robbers shot dead a former Ansar commander in the city’s Uttarkhan area early Saturday, reports UNB.The dead was identified as Nasirullah Khan (56).Police said a gang of 5/6 robbers stormed into the house of Nasirullah at Maosait at about 2:45am...
CASH incentive for the exporters has been one of the various measures taken by successive governments to promote export trade of the country. With the passage of time and consequent growth of the sector, the overall quantity of export has...
Billy I AhmedWE have to prepare for tomorrow today. When we look at our earth from space we see a "blue planet", because about 70% of earth's surface is covered with water. But the misfortune is that only 0.003% can...
Raziur RahmanIn a city already overloaded with population, more people from all over the country are coming with desperate bid to settle. The influx of population has resulted in not only high density, but also growth of slums in a...
IN the context of Bangladesh, one can say that the country is not too poorly served by labour laws and their regulations on the employers. Trade union practices providing collective bargaining of workers with their employers are generally allowed in...
A government anywhere, worthy of its name, must be free to exercise its authority. It may be a caretaker government but that does not mean that it should be run according to the wishes or dictates of outsiders. In that...
Burton BollagThe decision by a brother and sister to import from Oman the dried-lime tea their Iraqi immigrant family drank has blossomed into a large specialty tea business.Numi Organic Tea has prospered by introducing consumers to natural flavors from around...
Abul Quasem HaiderThe universities, which follow the North American curriculum, were the first to introduce the grading system in Bangladesh. Now most of the universities, both in the public and private sectors, have taken to the grading system. Recently, the...
Mozammel HussainThe police have at times been seizing some quantities of date-barred insecticides being sold by the "agents" at some parts of the country. According to reports in the media, the staff of such companies admitted to the police, during...
Andrzej ZwanieckiA solar-rechargeable LED light for use in villages with no electricity was a class project at the Stanford University Institute of Design for four engineering and business students. Now d.light, a company the Stanford students started, sells the $20-$30...
Syed Fattahul AlimAll the religions, philosophies and social beliefs are at one about the notion that that the human self is sovereign. And man has unquestionably accepted it as a fact of life that the self is a non-negotiable entity....
Elizabeth A Kennedy After nearly 20 years of violent chaos, Islamic extremism and failed peace talks, impoverished Somalia might seem to have hit rock-bottom. But things are getting worse. The crisis is exceeding even the direst scenarios laid out nearly...
Terence Hunt How did it happen, America's grave financial crisis? President Bush offered a bunch of explanations but held Washington completely blameless, painting a picture of a government standing innocently on the sidelines as the economy went off the rails.Somehow,...
With the Shenzhou VII mission set to attempt China's first spacewalk this weekend, the country's leaders are betting that their heavy investments in space exploration, in the process seeking to burnish the national image and build political capital abroad, will...
Robert M Hathaway and Edward Gresser Seven months ago, Pakistanis hoped elections would usher in a brighter era. Instead, skies are darkening. As President Asif Ali Zardari visited the United Nations and met with President Bush this week, Pakistan watchers...
James KilnerRussia thought it had tamed the Muslim regions on its southern flank when it quelled a rebellion in Chechnya, but trouble is brewing again.Barely noticed by the outside world, increasing violence and clashes between federal forces and rebels in...
Pakistan's military is better able to track down and capture terrorists along its lawless border with Afghanistan than U.S. forces, whose presence threatens to unite opposition factions into a cohesive anti-democratic coalition, Pakistan's new president told NBC News in his...
Clifford Coonan Contaminated baby formula, the return of pollution and other troubles have led many to think the Olympics were a curse.The widening scandal over contamination of milk products in China, which spread last week from baby formula to liquid...
Umar JuoroThe argument that the Asian economies, particularly the Indonesian economy, is decoupled from the U.S. economy is not true. The Indonesian financial market is very much influenced by the U.S. financial crisis relevant to the subprime mortgage problem --...
Chen Shiyin and Shamim AdamGovernment of Singapore Investment Corp., overseeing more than $100 billion of reserves, is turning to emerging markets and private equity to boost returns after cutting back stocks and investments in developed nations. The fund, known as...
TANG KHATA, (Pakistan), Sept 26 (AFP): Pakistan has said that troops have killed 1,000 Islamist militants in a huge offensive, a day after President Asif Ali Zardari lashed out at the US over a clash on the Afghan border. Five...
BEIJING, Sept 26 (AFP): China's three-man spacecraft shifted from an oval orbit to a more stable circular orbit 213 miles above Earth on Friday in preparation for the country's first attempt at a spacewalk. The spacewalk is scheduled to take...
BEIJING, Sept 26 (AFP): China's tainted milk scandal continues to expand beyond its borders as three Taiwanese children and a mother are sick with kidney stones, a Japanese confectioner's cookies are found to be contaminated and the European Union joins...
ORENBURG, (Russia), Sept 26 (AFP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was to meet Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev Friday after Russia risked Washington's wrath by offering the fierce US foe help developing nuclear energy. The two were to meet in the city...
KIEV, (Ukraine), Sept 26 (AFP): Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko signaled Friday that her standoff with President Viktor Yushchenko may lead to early presidential elections. In an interview with foreign journalists, Tymoshenko said she hoped to revive the shattered pro-Western coalition...
COLOMBO, Sept 26 (AFP): Sri Lankan troops have engaged Tamil Tiger forces on the outskirts of the northern rebel capital Kilinochchi, killing at least 13, the defence ministry said Friday. The government, which pulled out of a Norwegian-brokered ceasefire in...
BERLIN, Sept 26 (AFP): German commandos stormed a KLM airliner at Cologne-Bonn airport Friday, arresting two men suspected of wanting to carry out attacks, police said. The Amsterdam-bound jet was stormed at 6:55 am (0455 GMT), police spokesman Frank Scheulen...
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