President Iajuddin Ahmed called upon the conscious sections of society to come forward to wage social movement in favour of cornea donation among the masses for restoring sight of the blind, reports UNB.President Iajuddin Ahmed made the appeal while speaking...
FE ReportTime Magazine has selected expatriate Bangladeshi scientist Prof Abul Hussam for its 'Global Heroes of the Environment 2007' award for his invention of Sono Filter, a low-cost technology to free water of arsenic.The global magazine Friday formally announced the...
Marital abortion ratios have increased in some areas in the country though causes of maternal death, including abortion related-death, have decreased, reports UNB.A report of ICDDR'B revealed this recently after collecting data from ICDDR,B surveillance in Abhoynagar Upazila of Jessore...
GOPALGANJ, Oct 20 (UNB): Four people were killed and four others injured in road mishaps in different districts Friday.In Gopalganj, a mother and her two sons were killed in a collision between a private car and a human hauler at...
Diarrhoea that broke out in an alarming proportion in Chapai-nawabganj and Kurigram districts claimed seven lives and affected around 2,000 people in last one week until Friday, reports UNB.Sources said in Chapai-nawabganj, five people died and 1,500 were affected by...
BENAPOLE, Oct 20 (UNB): Police rescued four children from human traffickers at Bhober village here Saturday. On secret information, police raided the village and rescued the four children -- Sohel (9), Matiar (10), Selim (8) and Bashar (10), but could...
MYMENSINGH, Oct 20 (UNB): In a daring swoop on the passengers of a running inter-city train in the district Friday night, bandits tossed four passengers off its rooftop onto the ground, leaving two dead and two wounded.Local sources said a...
Premier Leasing and Finance Limited Company Secretary Mosharef Hossain died in a road mishap on October 18, 2007 at Madhukhali of Faridpur district. He was 62.His Qulkhwani will be held today (Sunday) after Asar Prayer at Khilkhet Karmachad Jame Mosque.Relatives,...
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (AFP): The World Bank called yesterday for agriculture to take centre stage in development policies and pledged to boost its lending to the sector after allowing it to decline in 1980s and 1990s. "We need to give...
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (AFP): Developing countries yesterday dismissed the International Monetary Fund's pace of reforms to increase their voice in the troubled institution as "disappointing and unacceptable." The Group of 24 developing countries, representing the majority of the IMF's membership...
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (AFP): The Group of Seven finance ministers warned yesterday that recent financial market upheaval, high energy costs and weaknesses in the US housing sector will slow global growth. "The global economy is in the fifth year of...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20 (PTI): Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri left for Afghanistan yesterday to attend a meeting of ECO grouping that will discuss measures to boost trade and create a regional power grid. The meeting of the council of...
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (AFP): Finance chiefs from the world's richest nations met yesterday amid fears of a slowdown in global economic growth which have been stoked by financial market turbulence. US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson hosted a meeting of Group...
Dubai, Oct 20 (PTI): Seeking to streamline the labour movement to Bahrain, India will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on manpower with the gulf nation. The decision was conveyed by Labour Minister Majeed Al Alawi to visiting Overseas Indian...
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (AFP): An anti-globalisation march in the streets of Washington turned violent, with shop windows smashed as crowds protested on the eve of meetings today of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Banner-waving crowds protesting what they...
LONDON, Oct 19 (AFP): Scorching oil prices blazed a record- breaking trail beyond 90 dollars this week as traders fretted over the weak US dollar and geopolitical jitters in the crude-rich Middle East. Prices were electrified by fears that a...
FE ReportEmirates Chairman and Chief Executive Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum celebrated the airline's historic launch of services to South America on 10th October by hosting a gala dinner for over 600 guests in Sao Paulo, Brazil, said a press...
NEW DELHI, Oct 20 (PTI): Cheaper fruits and vegetables and some manufactured items pulled inflation to a five-year low of 3.07 percent for the week ended October 6, but analysts said it would not trigger a return to soft monetary...
NEW YORK, Oct 20 (AFP): Oil prices ended lower yesterday after striking a record high above 90 dollars in New York amid global supply jitters and lingering tensions between Turkey and crude producer Iraq, traders said. New York's light sweet...
NEW YORK, Oct 20 (AFP): The weakened US dollar tumbled further yesterday on foreign exchange markets, sinking to another record low against the euro, as Group of Seven finance chiefs met for talks in Washington. Analysts expect G7 finance ministers...
David MorseEVEN before the Cessna touched down in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, I knew that we were on the front lines of what may someday be a huge war; that we were witnessing the opening skirmish in a...
Anita PetryWomen are seen as the key for ending global poverty and the issue of gender equality is receiving special attention at events marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Wednesday.One of the largest is the International...
Aparna Srivastava ReddyIsmarai has recently refurbished his shop selling soft drinks on the newly tarred avenue of Deh Mazan in the Afghan capital. Next to it stands a bombed out cinema house with white chalk signs that warn of landmines....
Commotion has brewed among field-level administrators as judicial magistrates are set to take charge from executive magistrates in less than two weeks, reports bdnews24.com. Government officials have showed their unease with the possible change of the balance of power as...
Ayesha Akhter, wife of detained Dhaka University (DU) teacher Anwar Hossain, has claimed that her husband did not receive proper medical care during his detention in Dhaka Central Jail, reports bdnews24.com. In an open letter released to the media Saturday,...
Bangladesh called for a UNGA special session on Maternal Health and Subsequent Global Plan of Action to devise effective measures for reducing maternal mortality. Health and Family Welfare Adviser Major General (retd) Matiur Rahman mooted proposal at the 'Global Women...
Jamaat-e-Islami Saturday expressed profound shock at the deaths in suicide bomb attack on the supporters of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on return of its leader Benazir Bhutto to Karachi from long exile abroad Friday night, reports UNB.Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman...
BOGRA, Oct 20 (UNB): Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a local Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader and seven terrorists from Jamfol Char in Sariakandi Upazila in the district on various charges.The arrested were Sariakandi thana BNP President Rafiqul Islam (50),...
FARIDPUR, Oct 20 (UNB): A local leader of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) was killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway at Kanaipur Bazar in the town here Saturday.The dead was identified as Shawkat Kabir (48), a member of...
MEHERPUR, Oct 20 (UNB): Six more bombs were recovered from near Baniapukur Road in Gangni Upazila of the district Saturday evening.On a secret information, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered the live bombs hidden in a bag at the nursery of...
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