Dhaka, July 17 (UNB) - Three cocktails were exploded near the Administrative Building of Dhaka University today (Tuesday), but there was no report of any injury. Campus sources said the homemade cocktails were exploded on the southern side the building...
THE fire that broke out in a South Korean-owned garment factory at Dhaka last Saturday night, caused extensive damage to its stocks and machinery. The concerned owner has estimated the loss at some Taka 1.0 billion. Fortunately, none died in...
Shamsul Huq ZahidOCTOGENARIAN Monoranjon Roy, a poor farmer of village Golna under Jaldhaka thana in Nilphamari district should consider himself lucky that a Bengali national daily front paged his arrest for non-payment of a paltry amount of agricultural loan and...
Jamaluddin Ahmed MIGRATION and settlement are considered long drawn out process. Over time, three major sets of theories have emerged to try to explain migration and resettlement. The neo-classical equilibrium perspective- emphasises tendencies of people to move from densely to...
Krishna Guha in Washington, Christopher Adams in London and Pan Yuk in ParisTHERE would be no swift coronation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund, experts said late last week, following the conclusion of...
OUT of the total number of teachers of the Dhaka University, a good many of them, according to reports in the media, were either staying abroad without authorisation or found to be too dedicated to their assignments at private universities...
A full fledged official accreditation mechanism for the private universities has become too pressing a necessity in the backdrop of the recent report of a committee of the University Grants Commission (UGC) on the state of these universities. The UGC...
IT is the irony of our fate that the present government did not realise that the import of electric genset has been increasing and relieving government of the problems of the present power crisis to some extent and helping to...
Masihur RahmanTHE Election Commission has taken initiative for an ordinance to streamline appointment of the Commissioners, define the independence of the Commission, and regulate the political parties in certain matters. It is no easy task, for the most critical elements...
Hasan MahmudOver the last few months, Bangladesh has been passing through a mounting political havoc. Keeping our eyes on media reportages, we find that the reasons for this turbulence are multiple, ranging from economic and ideological to politico-cultural deficiencies of...
SHANGHAI, July 15 (AFP): China's economy grew so rapidly in the first half of 2007 that it is likely to overtake Germany as the world's third-largest by the end of this year, analysts say. The release Wednesday of January to...
JAKARTA, July 15 (AFP): Indonesia's new list of foreign investment limits by sector has caused head-scratching among investors. But analysts and the government say that despite confusion, it is a step towards untangling the infamous bureaucracy of Southeast Asia's largest...
YANGON, July 15 (AFP): Only 10 per cent of the companies registered in military-ruled Myanmar are actually operating, the acting prime minister said today. "Although 40,000 companies were registered in the country, the number of companies that are really operating...
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, July 15 (AFP): Small and medium enterprises must play a greater role in the economy of oil-rich Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said today. In a speech marking his 61st birthday, Hassanal, one of the world's longest-reigning monarchs,...
WASHINGTON, July 15 (AFP): The International Monetary Fund has opened the selection process for the next managing director, but it remains to be seen whether there will be more than one candidate. Under an unwritten and increasingly scorned agreement, Europe...
SINGAPORE, July 15 (AFP): Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew urged Singaporeans to stay proficient in their mother tongues to give them an edge in a highly competitive globalised economy, in remarks published today. Students and their parents must persevere...
Beijing, Jul 15 (PTI): Despite China amassing an overall foreign trade surplus, the Communist country had a deficit of USD 87.5 billion in 2006 with East Asian countries, a main source for raw materials and parts, a senior official has...
COLOMBO, July 15 (AFP): Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka plunged 30 per cent in June compared to a year ago as fighting escalated in the country's bitter ethnic war, the tourism board said today. Months of heavy fighting mainly in...
NEW YORK, July 15 (Xinhua): The US leading investment bank, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. reported yesterday net revenues of 10.18 billion US dollars and net earnings of 2.33 billion dollars for its second quarter ended May 25. Diluted earnings per...
HONG KONG, July 15 (AFP): Asian currencies ended the week sharply higher against the US dollar as offshore capital continued to flow into the region supporting currencies and stock markets. JAPANESE YEN: The Japanese yen was expected to stay range-...
HARARE, July 15 (AFP): Skyrocketing inflation, erratic power supplies, a skills shortage and a dearth of foreign exchange have combined to ensure Zimbabwe is missing out on a global boom in gold prices. While global prices for gold hit a...
NEW YORK, July 15 (AP): As the summer swelters on, skyscrapers and apartments around the city will be cranking up the air conditioning and pushing the city's power grid to the limit. But some office towers and buildings have found...
SEOUL, July 15 (AFP): South Korea has banned fish imports from a Chinese farm that used harmful anti-bacterial agents, a news report said today. Seoul's Yonhap news agency, quoting an unnamed maritime and fisheries ministry official, said the ban took...
PARIS, July 15 (AFP): Dollar-wielding American tourists, undaunted by their crumbling currency, are still streaming into Paris and France in what could prove to be record numbers for all of 2007. "If you counted every penny, you'd never leave home...
SYDNEY, July 15 (AFP): Mining giant Rio Tinto today defended the price it has offered for Canada's Alcan, saying the robust economic growth of China and India would see the business prosper. The 38.1 billion dollar bid for the aluminium...
NEW YORK, July 15 (AFP): Frenzied action in the once- stodgy sector of mining and metals in recent months has led to a series of record- breaking deals, and some market participants say the consolidation is not over yet. In...
YANGON, July 15 (Xinhua): Myanmar is cracking down on using mobile phones illegally imported across border from some neighboring countries, local reports reaching here today said. Available in low cost and its coverage of wave signal within a radius of...
NEW DELHI, Jul 15 (PTI): Consumer electronics major Videocon has said it will set up a semiconductor unit in India with an initial investment of Rs.25 billion and is currently working on finalising the location for the same. "Indian labour,...
PESHAWAR, (Pakistan) July 15 (AFP): Suicide bombers hit a Pakistan army convoy for the second time in two days Sunday, killing at least 16 people in apparent retaliation for an army raid on a militant mosque, officials saidA suicide bomber...
SEOUL, (South Korea) July15 (AFP): A North Korean diplomat said Sunday that Pyongyang is ready to start disabling its nuclear programs now that it has shut down its sole operating reactor, as long as Washington lifts all sanctions against the...
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