RIYADH, Nov 30 (AFP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to attend next week's summit of Gulf Arab leaders, the first time that Tehran has been invited to the meeting, a senior Gulf official said Friday. The official, who declined to...
BEIRUT, Nov 30 (Reuters): A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Friday was delayed for a sixth time to December 7, the parliament speaker said, giving more time for talks focusing on the army chief's nomination for the vacant post. Parliament...
BARGUNA, Nov 30 (bdnews24.com): Communications Adviser and Chief Relief and Rehabilitation Coordinator MA Matin has warned against gaining political mileage out of the distress of Sidr survivors. "Anybody attempting to capitalise on the distress of the people for political gain...
President Prof Iajuddin Ahmed has urged the country's cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to launch massive public awareness programmes to check high incidence of heart disease, reports UNB. "Every year, the number of deaths are alarmingly increasing due to cardiovascular diseases,"...
The Awami League (AL) leaders said Friday there is no difference between Awami League and Sheikh Hasina and the party is united under her leadership."There is no reformist and anti-reformist in Awami League and here none is against Sheikh Hasina....
COMILLA, Nov 30 (UNB): Three JMB activists out of five who made an attempt to escape from the district jail Sunday night were sent to Dhaka Central Jail Friday morning for security reason.Jail authority said Nabil Rahman, the detained son...
KOLKATA, Nov 30 (PTI): Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen Friday said she was withdrawing some controversial lines from her autobiographical novel 'Dwikhandita' as those evoked strong protests from "a section of people in India." "I am withdrawing controversial lines in 'Dwikhandita',...
Bangladesh favoured setting up an 'Adaptation Centre' in Dhaka alongside enhanced international funds for global warming research as the United Nations is set to stage the two-week Climate Change Conference in scenic Indonesian island of Bali from December 2, reports...
FE Report United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will distribute safe delivery kits to 40 upazila health complexes to ensure safe delivery services for cyclone-affected pregnant women within the next week.Over 6.7 million people have been affected by cyclone 'Sidr' and...
People must be made aware of the real situation with regard to the incidence and occurrence of AIDS in Bangladesh, said speakers at a press conference Friday organised by Asia Peoples' Alliance for Combating HIV-AIDS, reports bdnews24.com. Simply reporting the...
Four persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies. In Comilla, a man was killed and 20 people were injured in a collision between two...
Some 45,000 litres purified water, supplied by British business firm Duncan Brothers in aid of the cyclone, was handed over to Bangladesh authorities in Dhaka Friday, reports UNB. British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury handed over the consignment of...
BAGERHAT, Nov 30 (UNB): Decomposed body of a child was recovered from Sharankhola upazila Friday, raising the official death toll from cyclone 'Sidr' to 770 in the district.Official sources said local people found the body in east Sonatala canal in...
The number of children starting primary school has increased sharply since 2000, there are more girls in school than ever before and spending on education and aid has risen. That's the good news, according to the sixth edition of the...
In response to the appeal for generous contribution for the Cyclone victims of Bangladesh, more expatriate Bangladeshis and some organisations donated over 1,21,000 pound sterling until November 28, reports UNB. Abdul Sattar Edhi, a Philanthropist and founder of Edhi International...
FE ReportThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has directed all the tax offices to prepare lists of those, who will not file their individual tax returns despite extension of deadline twice. The deadline of individuals' tax return will expire on...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The country's leading exporters and businesses said Bangladesh products should be granted duty free access to the US market in consideration of the damaged caused to the former's economy by natural calamities such as floods and cyclone...
AZM Anas The World Bank is in talks with the government on improvement of regulations governing Bangladesh's nascent capital market."The World Bank has started preliminary talks with us regarding a future project designed to develop Bangladesh's bond market, still in...
FE ReportThe Chittagong Customs House (CCH) mobilised a record revenue worth Tk 46.48 billion in the first five months of the current fiscal, thanks to tightening of the monitoring system.It has surpassed the Tk 43.53 billion target set for July-November...
Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives in the city today (Saturday) to convey the solidarity of the Indian people with the people of Bangladesh in their hours of need, reports UNB. During his daylong visit, the Indian Minister will...
Doulot Akter MalaA European Commission (EC) inspection team of food and veterinary office (FVO) has found none of the major fish inspection and quality control (FIQC) laboratories in Bangladesh is internationally accredited.Setting target December 2008 for achieving the ISO accreditation,...
THE conference at Annapolis in the USA that started off from Wednesday would mainly be considered an outcome of the diplomacy of the government of President George W Bush to make it happen. Although coming late in the tenure of...
Syed Fattahul AlimAFTER about 11 weeks of conceiving the proposal of forming a forum to increase rapport between the business community and the government, the idea has been finally put into practice. It may be recalled that at a dialogue...
THE media and nongovernment organisations (NGOs) provide an opportunity for citizens to voice their concerns about mismanagement and poor service delivery, but what is missing is an institutional and formalised mechanism to convey bottom-up concerns of corruption to policy makers....
M. A RahmanAN economic slowdown with less of business and industrial activities, always proves to be a difficult time for a country. It throws many out of jobs.Increasing unemployment and falling income and output mark the current situation concerning the...
NOBODY knows for certain at this stage about the extent of food deficit that the country will be facing this fiscal, in the aftermath of two successive floods and the devastating cyclone, SIDR. But there is no denying that the...
The tourism trade is growing in Bangladesh, but not as fast as it should have. People in growing members are taking an interest in looking, at first hand, the places and objects of value in their land. The result is...
Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz Globalisation, what a concept. You can get a burger prepared your way practically anywhere in the world. The Nike Swoosh appears at elite athletic venues across the United States and on the skinny frames of...
Sean CroninJonson Joy gets up at 5 a.m. every day to work 13 hours on a Dubai construction site then comes home to a dormitory next to an overflowing sewage tank. He earns $245 a month and sends half to...
Ken FiremanWhen Xu Jianguo, the Chinese ambassador to Nigeria, visited Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Akwa in February, he didn't come empty-handed. Xu brought a $10,000 contribution, which was used to buy equipment ranging from camcorders to overhead projectors to facilitate...
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