COMILLA, June 18 (UNB): A case was filed with Chouddagram police station against former Jamaat lawmaker Syed Abdullah M Taher and 12 others Sunday night on charge of extortion and looting fish and fishing nets.The police sources said fisherman Shohag...
A Dhaka court has framed charge against former law minister Moudud Ahmed on allegations of importing wine evading duty and keeping the wine under his possession. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Azizul Haque framed the charge Monday and fixed tomorrow...
RAJSHAHI, June 18 (UNB): A BNP leader was injured in an encounter between Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members and his cohorts in front of Bangabandhu College in the city early today (Monday).RAB sources said joint forces arrested Mamunur Rashid alias...
The Metropolitan Magistrate Court has allowed another two days remand for Awami League (AL) presidium member and former minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim in an extortion case. Investigating Officer (IO) produced him before the court Monday and sought for seven...
A workshop on e-governance under the Support to Information and Commu-nication Technology (SICT) project held in the city Sunday to create awareness among the officials of the government's three divisions, reports UNB.The three-year SICT project already commenced its activities in...
Fifteen persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, reports agencies. In Thakurgaon, a couple was killed in lightning at Bhaularhat-Sindurna village in Sadar Upazila Monday morning.The...
Adviser for Health and Family Welfare ASM Matiur Rahman said Sunday government's various efforts for development of the health sector would go in vain unless the rising population rate is checked, reports BSS.So, the adviser said, the government has been...
SHERPUR, June 18 (UNB): Over 100 families in Sadar Upazila are passing their days in great anxiety as erosion by the river Brahmaputra is approaching fast towards their villages and has already devoured 25 houses of Bagolgarh village.Local people said...
KURIGRAM, June 18 (UNB) : Narcotics worth about Tk 17 million were destroyed at 'T' dam area on the bank of Dharala river Sunday noon.Official sources said the narcotics included 40 maunds of hemp, 500 bottles of liquor, 2,000 bottles...
RAJSHAHI, June 18: Discussants at an exchange of view meeting on Thursday entitled "Proposed Budget 2007-08" organised by Rajshahi district unit of Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) called for an increased subsidy in the budget for the development of the...
BEIJING, June 18 (PTI): With the Doha round entering a "crunch" phase amid hectic efforts by the US, EU, India and Brazil to revive the trade talks, the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Pascal Lamy is here to...
LONDON, June 18 (AFP): Moscow remains the most expensive city in the world for expatriate staff, according to a survey released today by British human resources firm Mercer HR. But the study saw London leap three places from fifth to...
SHANGHAI, June 18 (AFP): China's double-digit economic growth remains sustainable with the rapid expansion expected to continue over the next few years, state media reported today, citing a senior government adviser. China's economy has kept growing at double-digit rates for...
SINGAPORE, June 18 (AFP): Shanghai is set to overtake Singapore as the world's busiest port in 2008 as the Chinese economy continues with its stellar growth, an executive of the city-state's port operator said in remarks published today. Flourishing global...
PARIS, June 18 (AFP): French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with a strong, if reduced, parliamentary majority in hand, plans to waste no time in rolling out his ambitious and contested programme of economic reforms. Previous French governments of both left and...
NEW DELHI, June 18 (PTI): India has said there is possibility of closer economic cooperation with Indonesia as External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Jakarta Sunday to push the "Look East" policy. Mukherjee would be in Indonesia for two...
BEIJING, June 18 (CEIS): More than 700,000 Korean people are running some 30,000 companies across China, making it the top destination for investment from the Republic of Korea (ROK), according to a recent business forum. European countries and the United...
BEIJING, June 18 (CEIS): The supply of migrant workers to Chinese cities is drying up, according to a new survey conducted by the Development Research Centre of the State Council. The survey, which covered 2749 villages in 17 provinces and...
SINGAPORE, June 18 (AFP): Singapore's key exports recovered in May to grow 3.7 per cent from last year after declining in the previous month, boosted by a hefty jump in pharmaceuticals shipments, the government said today. On a month-on-month seasonally...
BEIJING, June 18 (CEIS): China has opened 18 rural community banks by the end of May offering farmers easier access to loans and providing credit to businesses in the countryside that want to expand. The small lenders include nine village...
SINGAPORE, June 18 (AFP): Oil prices were slightly higher in Asian trade today as the market continued to focus on US gasoline (petrol) reserves, dealers said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for July delivery, was up two cents...
MANILA, June 18 (CEIS): Philippine Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap yesterday rejected accusations by some "non- government" groups and individuals that the Philippine-Chinese agricultural cooperation is against the interests of the Filipino farmers. In a statement, Yap said there is nothing...
KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 (Xinhua): Malaysia plans to get international certification for palm oil by 2010 to deal with the negative perception that its production harms the environment and kills wildlife, local media reported today. With the certification, palm oil...
TOKYO, June 18 (AFP): The yen slipped to a record low against the euro in Asian trade today as expectations faded of a quick hike to Japan's super-low interest rates, dealers said. Market players also digested softer-than-expected inflation figures from...
TOKYO, June 18 (AFP): Daihatsu Motor Co., a unit of the Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor, said today it will withdraw from manufacturing cars in Vietnam, blaming high taxes in the booming economy. Daihatsu, a small car specialist, said it...
TOKYO, June 18 (Bloomberg): Asian stocks rose for a third day, driving benchmarks in China, Hong Kong and South Korea to records, as prices of metals and crude oil advanced and the yen weakened against the dollar. Rio Tinto Group...
HARBIN, June 18 (CEIS): There is huge potential for cooperation between China and Russia in the automotive trade, an official with the ministry of commerce said at the first Sino-Russian forum on the auto market held here yesterday. Zhi Luxun,...
HANOI, June 18 (Xinhua): Vietnam's sugar plants churned out over 1.1 million tons of the product in the 2006-2007 sugarcane crop ending in June, up 51.7 per cent over the previous crop, local newspaper People reported today. In the 2006-2007...
WELLINGTON, June 18 (AFP): New Zealand's central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market today in an attempt to bring down the value of the local currency from near two-decade highs, market sources said. The New Zealand dollar fell from...
BEIJING, June 18 (AFP): Chinese airlines are preparing to raise ticket prices by up to 30 per cent during the summer high travel season that begins on July 1, state press reported today. Several Chinese airlines will also limit discounts...
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