RANGAMATI, July 30 (UNB): Malaria, a serious infectious disease, claimed some 193 lives and infected 56,789 people last year in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region, according to official figures.Unofficial sources, however, claimed that the death toll and the number...
COMILLA, July 30 (UNB): Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor visited Comilla Cantonment area and passed a busy day here Wednesday.A special helicopter of Bangladesh Army, carrying General Kapoor and his entourage, landed on the helipad of cantonment at about...
NEW YORK, July 30 (Agencies): Applications for US home mortgages dropped to their slowest pace since December 2000 as loan rates hovering near one-year highs compounded the housing market's woes, according to data from an industry group Wednesday.The Mortgage Bankers...
After two days of brainstorming, the Awami League working committee Wednesday came up with the decision that the party would not participate in the upazila elections if arranged before the parliamentary polls, reports UNB."All the leaders at the WC meeting...
Touring Bangladesh A team scored a moderate 182 for all in 45.5 overs in the first one-day match against English County side Lancashire at Moss Lane Elderley Edge Wednesday, reports UNB.Sent into bat first, the second string Bangladesh side received...
Shakhawat Hossain | 2008-07-31 00:00:00
Communication ministry sits in a meeting today (Thursday) to select a lead agency among two major donors for the construction of Padma Multipurpose Bridge, officials said Wednesday.The World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have long been showing...
Syed Ishtiaque Reza | 2008-07-30 00:00:00
WHEN the government's regulatory authority, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartikakhya (Rajuk) remained busy during the past two decades in developing land in and around the city for the privileged, the private housing industry grew. During this period the private developers handed over...
The port city of Chittagong had been facing an acute crisis of gas since long. Though there is no readymade answer to the gas crisis the port city has been going through, yet one cannot also afford to sit on...
For nine consecutive years, CEMEX and Urbi have reaffirmed their productive partnership and agreed to combine their leadership and experience to promote economic housing in Mexico, generating programs of joint participation in order to design investment schemes in infrastructure, as...
Mahmuda Shaolin | 2008-07-30 00:00:00
Prices of raw materials for boutique products have increased by at least 20 per cent over the last one year pushing the boutique businesses into a very harsh time."Prices of raw materials like fabrics, colours, yarn and kerosene have increased...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2008-07-30 00:00:00
Chittagong port set a record by handling a million containers in 2007-08 fiscal year following substantial rise in international trade through containers."This is history for our port. We are happy for being able to handle such a large number of...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2008-07-30 00:00:00
Kuwaiti police and special force used batons, fired tear gas canisters and arrested a few Bangladeshi workers, who in their hundreds, allegedly, along with some other Asian workers resorted to strike and turned violent last Monday at Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, 20-km...
SYDNEY, July 29 (AFP): Australia today announced a "more humane" policy towards refugees, saying most asylum seekers will no longer be automatically locked up when they arrive in the country.The move by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's centre-left Labor government, which...
FE Report | 2008-07-30 00:00:00
A government initiative to finance a waste treatment plant has apparently bogged down for the time being due to escalation of cost by nearly five times impeding relocation of tanneries to leather industrial estate in Savar by 2010.In the original...
MAGURA, July 29 (UNB): The police arrested a fake physician and the owner of a clinic from the district town Monday following the death of a newborn baby due to alleged wrong treatment.The police said Taposi Rani, wife of Gosai...
TOKYO, July 29 (AFP): Japan said today its unemployment rate hit a near two-year high in June while consumer spending declined, raising concerns that the worsening business climate is hurting the overall economy.Soaring energy and raw material costs are making...
WASHINGTON, July 29 (AFP): The US government's budget deficit is expected to balloon to a record 482 billion dollars in the next fiscal year, largely due to an emergency economic stimulus and a slowing economy, a White House report showed...
BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua): China should expand the scope of mutual offsetting between turnover tax and value-added tax (VAT) for the purpose of promoting technological advancement and industrial innovation, according to Xu Shanda, former deputy director of China's state administration...
YOUR paper on many occasions wrote about prison reforms. But we think the write-ups did not produce the expected result. The country's prisons are highly overcrowded as reported by the jail authorities. There are over 87,000 inmates in the jails...
NEW YORK, July 29 (AFP): French President Nicolas Sarkozy's pop star wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would like to have children with her new husband, she said in an interview with a US magazine released Monday."I'd love to have children with Nicolas....
BIRMINGHAM, England, July 29 (AFP): Stephen Harmison is confident he will be able to focus on the task in hand should his recall to the England squad see him in action against South Africa in the third Test at Edgbaston...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2008-07-30 00:00:00
Investment in saving tools by small savers declined by 39 per cent in fiscal 2007-08 as much of the fund flowed into more lucrative stock market, officials said.The National Savings Directorate (NSD) received net investment worth Tk 25.16 billion in...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2008-07-30 00:00:00
OFTEN when I reflect my face on a mirror I wonder what my ancestors did for their living, say, 400 years back! Given the texture and colour of my dark skin, my body size and my idiosyncrasies, I guess my...
JOHANNESBURG, July 29 (AFP): Negotiations in South Africa aimed at ending the political crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe are deadlocked, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's spokesman told AFP Tuesday."The talks are in a deadlock," said George Sibotshiwe, chief spokesman for the Movement...
JAKARTA, July 29 (AFP): Crude oil prices above 120 dollars a barrel are "abnormal" and could fall to around 78 dollars under the right circumstances, OPEC President Chakib Khelil said here today."If the dollar continues to strengthen and the political...
MUMBAI, July 29 (AFP): Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today raised its key short-term lending rate by half-a-percentage point in an aggressive bid to tame inflation riding at a 13-year high, pushing shares down sharply.Indian shares slumped 3.6 per cent...
FE Report | 2008-07-30 00:00:00
The 8th annual general meeting (AGM) of Islami Insurance Bangladesh Limited was held at its head office in the city recently.Chairman of the company Mohammad Sayeed presided over the meeting. Directors, Managing Director Md Zainul Huda, Additional Managing Director Md...
Bangladesh Police moved into the final of the Design Zone 2nd Office Handball League beating all- losers Prisons Directorate by 44-13 goals in the last league match at the Outer Stadium Handball ground in the city Tuesday, reports UNB.The winners...
FE Report | 2008-07-30 00:00:00
Prime Bank Limited opened its ATM booth at Feni Monday.Prime Bank Acting Managing Director Nasiruddin Ahmed inaugurated the booth.SEVP Md Jasim Uddin, EVP Habibur Rahman, SVP (IT) Md lqbal Hossain, SVP (Card) Adil Raihan and SVP (Marketing) Ehsan Habib were...
The country's apparel industry is exposed to a new threat with the taka strengthening against US dollar, reports UNB.If the appreciation of taka continues for long, it may weaken the recent rebound in apparel exports, exporters said.They said that dollar...
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