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...
TOKYO, Aug 22 (AFP): The dollar hardly moved against the yen in Asian trade today as market players took a breather after recent turbulence over the troubled US housing sector, traders said. The dollar changed hands at 114.37 yen in...
BEIJING, Aug 22 (AFP): China said today it had discovered many safety problems with soybeans imported from the United States, urging US authorities to deal with the problem. "Inspection and quarantine units in various areas have discovered a large number...
NEW DELHI, Aug 22 (PTI): Even as the government finds itself in a no-envying position over the Indo-US nuclear deal, the European Union (EU) has said India should look for all options, including nuclear to overcome shortage of energy. "India...
TOKYO, Aug 22 (AFP): Japan will try to turn the millions of wooden chopsticks that go discarded each year into biofuel to ease the country's energy shortage, officials said yesterday. Biofuels are seen as an alternative clean energy resource that...
HANOI, Aug 22 (Xinhua): A joint venture between a Vietnamese joint stock company and the US-based Semtech Ltd is completing an investment report on building an oil refinery in Vietnam's southern Can Tho city. The venture plans to construct the...
NEW DELHI, Aug 22 (PTI): Corporate conglomerate Essar Group yesterday said it plans to invest more than Rs.200 billion over the next five years to scale up power generation capacity to 6,500 MW from about 1,200 MW at present. "We...
MANILA, Aug 22 (Xinhua): The Philippines' rice import this year is expected to reach a 10-year high of 1.87 million tons, due to an El Nino dry phenomenon, a local newspaper reported today. The Department of Agriculture said it had...
Dilip HiroWith the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States stood tall -- militarily invincible, economically unrivalled, diplomatically uncontestable, and the dominating force on information channels worldwide. The next century was to be the true "American century,"...
Am Johal As climate change hit a cultural tipping point in 2007, with more and more people expressing concern and awareness of the risks posed by rising greenhouse gases, warming in the Arctic is already altering the landscape in Canada's...
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug 22 (AFP): Ian Bell and Alastair Cook both scored their maiden one-day international (ODI) hundreds as England beat India by 104 runs at the Rose Bowl here Tuesday in the first match of a seven-game series. Bell made...
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