LA PAZ, July 19 (AFP): India's Jindal Steel and Power and Bolivia's state-run Empresa Siderurgica Mutun have signed an agreement to exploit one of the richest iron deposits in the world in southeastern Bolivia, the government's mining minister said. The...
Mark DrajenCongress will take its first steps soon to counter a surge of tainted imports from China, voting to tighten food-labeling rules and summoning U.S. officials to explain how the defective goods made it into the country. The House Appropriations...
Rosalia Omungo''We are crying,'' laments Millicent Otok, as I take a seat next to her at her stall. ''Why are you crying?'' I enquire. ''They come and copy our items,'' she says, in reference to Chinese traders in the Kenyan...
Baradan KuppusamyThe arrest, under the official secrets act (OSA), of a prominent blogger and senior aide to opposition icon Anwar Ibrahim has shaken the fast growing blogging community in this country dominated by docile, state-controlled mainstream media. Harvard-educated Nathaniel Tan,...
Jeff BlissOsama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist organization may use tactics honed in Iraq to launch an attack in the U.S., according to domestic intelligence agencies. The group ``is and will remain the most serious terrorist threat to the homeland as...
Health Adviser ASM Matiur Rahman said there is no reason to get panicked about the recently seen mass hysteria disease among children across the country, reports UNB.Many students have been affected by mass hysteria at different parts of the country."It...
ARAMEX International opened another branch office at Mirpur in the city recently, said a press release.Managing Director of ARAMEX International, Bangladesh Mahbubul Anam inaugurated the branch as the chief guest while its Country Manager Saman Gunawardena presided over the function.Also...
FE Report Eminent Islamic thinker and Peer Sahib of Dariapur Sharif Hazrat Moulana Shah Sufi Alhaj Abul Hasan Muhammad Abdul Quayyum has been hospitalised at Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute in the city. The Islamic thinker, elder brother of...
Renowned ENT specialist and former treasurer and professor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Pran Gopal Dutta has recently been conferred with the honorary FRCS degree, said a press release.Royal College of Physician and Surgeon, Glasgow handed over the...
A taxi caught fire near Shilpa Bank Bhaban at Motijheel area of the city Thursday, reports UNB.Fire brigade sources said local people found the taxi blazing at noon and informed them. But the locals extinguished the blaze before their arrival.The...
National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCT) is set to reprint school textbooks with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman restored as 'Father of the Nation' and Ziaur Rahman named "proclaimer of independence on behalf of Bangabandhu."The rewritten history says Shaheed President Ziaur...
A new political party styled National People's Party (NPP) was launched Thursday with its head neither confirming nor denying behind-the-scenes government help, reports bdnews24.com. The nine-point charter of the party includes a plan to form a national security council to...
RANGAMATI, July 19 (BSS): Adviser for Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said the government is determined to bring overall development in the hill districts."Tk 2.57 billion (257 crore) has been allocated in the current fiscal year for...
GOPALGANJ, July 19 (UNB): About 300 men and women observed a token hunger strike Thursday on Sheikh Sayera Khatun Red Crescent Hospital premises at Tungipara demanding release of Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina.Coming from in and around Tungipara, ancestral...
The judgment in the graft case facing detained former state minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir will be delivered on July 26, reports UNB.Judge Shahed Noorudin of the special make-shift court at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in the city, trying high-profile corruption suspects,...
The Dhaka Central Jail authorities will appoint a full-time lady doctor and nurse for former Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina, now detained in a make-shift hajat at parliament complex in the city, reports UNB.Inspector General (Prisons)...
RANGPUR, July 19 (UNB): Classes in some educational institutions were not held and few business establishments kept shutters down in the town Thursday morning in response to half-day hartal called by Juba League and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to protest...
The second meeting of the annual consultations between foreign ministries of Bangladesh and Myanmar will be held in the city on July 23-24, reports UNB.Entire gamut of bilateral relations between the two countries will be discussed during the consultations, a...
Controversial businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun Thursday appealed to the High Court (HC) against a verdict that sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment (RI) for 10 years in an arms case, reports bdnews24.com. Mamun's lawyer Abdul Mannan Fakir filed the appeal. A...
No visitors were allowed to see detained Awami League (AL) chief Sheikh Hasina until Thursday afternoon, reports bdnews24.com. Sheikh Mili, Farida Sheikh and Sheikh Parul - first cousins to Hasina - and her protocol officer Manzila Faruque came to see...
FE ReportBangladesh is ranked fifth in terms of attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) among 50 least developed countries (LDCs) accounting for 5.9 per cent of the annual FDI flow to the LDCs, a United Nations report said.The report said 56...
Awami League acting president Zillur Rahman Thursday said there will be no reform in the party before Sheikh Hasina is set free while a committee has been formed comprising eight lawyers to fight for Hasina in a graft case. On...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) will place a proposal on introduction of incentives for the taxmen to gear up revenue collection.Taxmen will get incentive at a rate of 10 per cent over the amount in excess of...
FE Report The commercial banks and non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) have been asked to provide information about bank accounts of 45 individuals and two establishments within a week. The central intelligence cell (CIC) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
S M JahangirThe government's current Boro procurement drive is facing impediments because of a marked difference between the official purchase rates and the open market prices of the foodgrains, triggered by a production shortfall.As a result, the authority is set...
Alan Beattie, FT Syndication ServiceLONDON: Heads of key negotiating committees in the troubled so-called Doha round of trade talks last Tuesday challenged members of the World Trade Organisation to make hefty cuts in tariffs and subsidies.Publishing draft agreements for the...
The move to increase the price of urea fertiliser has been kept on hold for the time being as the Advisery Committee on Economic Affairs Thursday sent the proposal back to the Industries Ministry, reports UNB.The committee, however, said the...
CHITTAGONG, July 19 (bdnews24.com): The authorities of Chittagong Mother and Child General Hospital sacked 50 medical officers on strike Thursday after they failed to rejoin work by 2:30pm deadline, an official said. Anjuman Ara, the hospital management committee general secretary,...
CHANDPUR, July 19 (UNB): Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed Thursday said the joint forces in operation have already earned massive support and kudos from the common men for resisting corruption in the country."With corruption, a nation cannot...
FE ReportDSE-25, the revised index of the blue-chip shares of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has been launched on trial basis."The revised index of the blue-chip shares with five more listed companies in addition to the existing 20 is being shown...
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