Shaking hands with Robert Mugabe has become a hot political issue in Britain which has been accused of suffering from a "colonial guilt" complex when it comes to halting the former colony's slide into misery. In 2004, former Foreign Secretary...
Simon Kuper When Italians immigrated to France in the late 19th century, many French believed these often undereducated, religious newcomers would never integrate. Some Italians were killed in race riots, write Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaisse in their book Integrating...
John GapperMattel was in the dock last week, apologising profusely and promising to do better. It took some time to round up the usual suspect - a big US corporation - after it emerged that some of its Chinese-made toys...
Jennifer HughesThe current credit squeeze may mean lean times ahead in the City, but it will not mean work drying up for big accountancy firms, according to Mark Otty, UK chairman of Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four...
Krishna Guha in WashingtonUS house prices are likely to fall significantly from their present levels, Alan Greenspan has told the Financial Times, admitting that there was a bubble in the US housing market.In an interview ahead of the release on...
Eric SchmidtAs the information age becomes a reality for increasing numbers of people around the world, the technologies that underpin it are getting more sophisticated and useful. The opportunities are immense. For individuals, a great leap forward in their ability...
Raphael Minder in Manila, Dominic Faulder in Bangkok, John Aglionby in Jakarta and Song Jung-a in SeoulAs investigators examined the wreckage on Monday of the aircraft that crashed in the Thai resort of Phuket on Sunday, broader questions were being...
Thailand is eyeing a record tourist influx with foreigners seemingly undeterred by the Phuket plane disaster or political concerns since a military coup one year ago, industry officials say.Hassles at a gleaming new airport outside the capital Bangkok have not...
Bunn NagaraONLY last Wednesday Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation, effective as soon as the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could identify a successor. Within days, after a very brief leadership tussle, Yasuo Fukuda has practically sewn up...
Sanjay KumarIndia has called for greater economic cooperation with fellow East Asian countries in pursuit of a "truly integrated Asian economy.Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee underlined the need to understand the "gainful opportunity" offered by the "globalized world" during...
Faryal LeghariTHE unprecedented support to the Pakistan government given by Saudi Arabia's leadership in putting diplomatic pressure on the deposed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to return to Saudi Arabia has been a major shock. This was a major deviation...
Awami League (AL) Friday claimed that the 14-party alliance led by AL still remains and it will be strengthened in future, report UNB/ bdnews24.com.AL presidium member Tofail Ahmed, who has been given the charge to maintain unity in the 14-party,...
CHITTAGONG, Sep 21 (BSS): Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) have taken tight security measures at all Eid shopping malls in the port city for the convenience of shoppers.Officials in the CMP said a total of 2120...
BNP chairperson's Adviser ASM Hannan Shah Friday alleged that expelled Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan went to Singapore with an evil design on the plea of treatment, but ZA Khan, another adviser of Khaleda Zia dismissed the allegation, report UNB/bdnews24.com."As...
CHANDPUR, Sept 21 (UNB): Police arrested a close associate of top terrorist "pichchi" Hannan, killed in the capital in 2005, from a shop at Char Dukhia union in Faridganj Upazila Friday. Acting on a tip-off, police raided a shop at...
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Friday condemned the Gonotontri Party president for demanding of the Election Commission not to allow religious parties, including Jamaat, to be registered and use 'scales of justice' as an election symbol, reports UNB.Gonotontri Party President Nurul Islam placed...
BARISAL, Sept 21 (BSS): A 71-member committee was formed Friday at a general meeting on the premises of the Harishava in Hatkhola area of the divisional city for celebration of the upcoming Durga Puja of the Hindu community.Rakhal Chandra Dey...
Adviser for LGRD, Labour and Employment Anwarul Iqbal Friday called upon the financial institutions to provide easy term loans to the backward linkage industrial units, particularly the washing plants in the garment sector for their development, reports BSS."I'm urging the...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Sept 21 : About 12 thousand subscribers of power living in Chittagong metropolitan area are being brought under pre-paid metering system by December this year, Power Development Board (PDB) sources said.PDB has chalked out a pilot scheme for...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Sept 21: One barge was detained and fined taka 0.2 million today for transporting excess CR Coil and breaking the Kalarpol Baily bridge. Chittagong Port (CP) magistrate Munir Chowdhury penalised the barge. The detained barge is lying with...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 21 (BSS): The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing a poverty alleviation programme in its slum areas since 2001 successfully.The six-year "Local Partnership for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (LPUPAP)" is being executed aimed at lifting up the...
JAMALPUR, Sept 21 (UNB): Three persons were sentenced to life term imprisonment by a court here Thursday in a murder case.The court also fined the convicts - Jamiron, her husband Mofazzal Hossain and Shahidul - Tk 5,000 each, in default,...
The well marked low over west central Bay and adjoining northwest Bay off North Andhra-Orissa coast intensified into a depression over the same area, reports UNB.It was centred about 715 kilometres southwest of Chittagong port, 660 kilometres southwest of Cox's...
FE ReportThe annual Urs marking the 270th death anniversary of Alhaj Hazrat Maulana Shah Sufi Syed Abdur Rahim Shaheed ®, founder of Mia Shaheber Maidan Khanka Sharif, and 10th descendant of Baro Pir Hazrat Abdul Kader Jilani ®, will be...
MAGURA, Sept 21 (UNB): The District and Sessions Judge and Judge of the Special Tribunal here Thursday convicted a man and awarded him life term imprisonment for violating a girl after abduction.The convict was identified as Kamal Hossain, son of...
BENAPOLE, Sept 21 (UNB): A housewife was gang raped by some local terrorists at Pakshia Bazar under Sharsha Upazila early Friday.Local people said four to five terrorists led by Imamul and Mithu kidnapped the housewife at gunpoint and took her...
PIROJPUR, Sept 21 (UNB): Joint forces arrested an employee of district income tax office Wednesday on charge of taking bribe from a man.Sources said the joint forces caught Nurul Haque, notice server of the office, from Bazar Road area in...
BARISAL, Sept 21 (UNB): A devastating fire that broke out at Alif-Lam-Mim cotton mill at Gobordhan under Gournadi Upazila here Thursday gutted valuables worth Tk 0.10m (one lakh). Local people said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at...
FE ReportPrices of edible oil increased and the prices of green chilli and lemon declined slightly while the prices of other essential commodities remained unchanged in the city markets over the past week.Trader said the over-consumption of edible oil during...
FE ReportA memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing ceremony between Dhaka Bank Limited and Haq's Bay Automobiles Limited took place in the city recently.Under the deal Dhaka Bank will extend its retail auto loan service to the clientele of Haq's Bay,...
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