Two Hamas militants killed by Israeli fire GAZA CITY, Oct 25: Two armed Hamas militants were killed in a clash overnight with Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, officials in the Islamist movement and a medic said Thursday. Ayman Fussefes...
THE number of road accidents involving motorised vehicles, particularly passenger buses and trucks, has recorded an alarming rise in recent years. Almost every day, reports on deaths on roads and highways are published in newspapers. Sometimes, the death figures are...
Ahmed SobhanThe least developed countries (LDCs) have been so categorized for special or preferential treatment by the rich and resourceful countries. Unlike countries at other stages of development described as middle-income and semi-developed ones, the LDCs are at the bottom...
Benazir BhuttoI did not come this far in life to be intimidated by suicide bombers. There is a battle raging in Pakistan for the hearts and minds of a annnition. It is a battle for the future of Pakistan as...
Mahbubul Haque ChowdhuryMONGA is not a newly coined Bengali word. The word has come from local dialect. It means 'scarcity'. The poor, even the middle income groups, find it hard to purchase anything for want of income. The situation can...
Abul HossainBECAUSE of its geographic location Bangladesh is vulnerable to natural disasters like recurrent floods, droughts and cyclones. Indeed, normal annual flooding is important to the people and economy of Bangladesh. However, severe floods of high magnitude can have adverse...
It is a common sight in the city to see the men in blue uniform of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) stopping cars and other vehicles and searching them . But one is led to questioning the merit of this...
Bangladesh has been at the forefront in the last decade in embracing prescriptions for trade liberalisation. However, Bangladesh's experience after such liberalisation has not been a happy one. Its neighbouring countries have been exporting products to it at artificially low...
Some 24 million children under five will be given polio vaccine tomorrow (Saturday) and on December 8 across the country in the first and second rounds of the 16th National Immunisation Day (NID) for eradicating residual Polio-myelitis, reports UNB.Health Adviser...
BARISAL, Oct 25 (UNB): Additional 70,000 tonnes of Hilsha is expected to be produced next season as Hilsha fishing remained stopped for 10 days from October 15 in four points of 7,000 square kilometres coastal areas following government ban.Deputy Director...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Oct 25: Chittagong Custom House (CCH) authority has seized two separate consignments of Rangs Television and tyers imported under false declaration and it is alleged, there were attempts at evading taxes worth around taka 2.5 million against those...
DU CorrespondentThe admission test for MBBS courses in the 14 public medical colleges of the country will be held from 10 am to 11 am today. A total of 24,238 students will sit for the test. Of them, 2,060 eligible...
CHUADANGA, Oct 25 (UNB): Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 here Wednesday convicted a man in absentia and sentenced him to life term imprisonment for violating a girl.The court also fined the convict Monir, hailed from Puronandarpur village under Jibonnogor...
The 13th death anniversary of Begum Rafiqunnessa Khatun Chowdhury, mother of Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, will be observed tomorrow (Saturday), reports UNB.Doa and milad mahfils will be held in capital and in Sylhet on the occasion.Rafiqunnessa Chowdhury was born...
The 16th death anniversary of Shafi Ahmed, a former councillor of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), will be held today (Friday).Shafi was the general secretary of Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU) in the 60's.A milad mahfil has been arranged on...
The chehlum of Abdur Rahim, a social worker of old Dhaka, will be held today (Friday) at 41, RK Mission Road in the city.Rahim, founder member of Brother's Union club, died of kidney ailments on September 16 last. He was...
WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (AFP): US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson yesterday called on India to accelerate its pace of economic reforms, ahead of his visit next week to the Asian powerhouse. "It is in the best interest of India, the United...
LONDON, Oct 25 (AFP): France will push for tougher EU standards on food safety and quality to protect the bloc's agriculture industry from "unfair competition," the country's agriculture minister said in an interview published today. Speaking to the Financial Times,...
BEIJING, Oct 25 (AFP): China's economy expanded at a blistering pace in the third quarter, the government said today, even as it declared the immediate overheating risk had receded thanks to a series of control measures. The world's fourth-largest economy...
BEIJING, Oct 25 (Xinhua): China Merchants Bank (CMB), labeled the best bank in China by finance magazine Euromoney, announced yesterday that it had been given the green light from the national banking regulator to set up a financial leasing company....
MANILA, Oct 25 (AFP): France and the Asian Development Bank will provide 143.3 million dollars in loans and grants to help Vietnam rebuild rural roads, irrigation systems and farm infrastructure, the bank said today. Hanoi will get a 90 million...
WELLINGTON, Oct 25 (AFP): New Zealand's central bank left interest rates on hold today but warned the government that increased spending or tax cuts would up the risk of further rises. Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Alan Bollard left...
SHANGHAI, Oct 25 (AFP): A new investment firm funded by Chinese and foreigners will be tasked with providing up to 30 billion dollars to build a high-speed rail line linking Beijing and Shanghai, state press said today. The state-run firm...
SEOUL, Oct 25 (AFP): South Korea's economic growth slowed in the third quarter after expanding at its fastest pace for three and a half years in the preceding three months, the central bank said today. Gross domestic product expanded 1.4...
SEOUL, Oct 25 (AFP): South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor today reported its net profit jumped in the third quarter to September after agreeing to a wage deal to avert a strike. Net profit rose 44.8 per cent year-on-year to...
FRANKFURT, Oct 25 (AFP): The German government adopted yesterday a proposal to tighten controls on investment in German companies that widens in particular the definition of concerted action. That generally designates an agreement by several groups-often investment funds-that buy significant...
LONDON, Oct 25 (AFP): The price of Brent crude oil struck an historic peak of 86.28 dollars per barrel in trading here Thursday on renewed concerns over tight global energy supplies. New York crude also surged as Turkey vowed to...
LONDON,Oct 25 (AFP): The dollar edged lower against the European single currency on Thursday ahead of another reading on the beleaguered US housing market. The euro firmed to 1.4268 dollars in early European trade from 1.4264 dollars in New York...
TOKYO, Oct 25 (AFP): The yen gained on the dollar and euro in Asian trade today as investors shunned riskier assets amid concerns about slowing US economic growth and expectations of another rate cut there, dealers said. The dollar slipped...
KATHMANDU, Oct 25 (AFP): Nepal's state-owned monopoly oil company today hiked prices as much as 22 per cent to meet a rising import bill in the landlocked Himalayan nation that depends on India for all supplies. "The price of petrol,...
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