Anwar AhmedWHAT the Chief Adviser (CA) has underlined in his recent address to the conference of deputy commissioners (DCs), is very significant particularly in the backdrop of the on-going drive against corruption. The CA has proposed creating conditions within institutions...
Martin Wolf HAPPINESS is fashionable these days. Yet should we accept the common view that the new "science" of happiness has cemented the superiority of Scandinavian social democracy over Anglo-Saxon liberalism? The answer is: No. The results are just as...
THE government decided two years ago that it would make laws to control noise pollution. Accordingly, the draft of an act was prepared that recommended Taka 10,000 as fine and maximum six months of imprisonment for producing noise higher than...
THE teachers of a government primary school may not be highly paid persons. But they are important persons being responsible for imparting formal education at the beginning institutional level of formal education. But they are indeed poorly paid. But it...
Tom EngelhardtFinally, the great American disconnect may be ending. Only four years after the invasion of Iraq, the crucial facts-on-the-ground might finally be coming into sight in this country -- not the carnage or the mayhem; not the suicide car...
Julio Godoy from Heiligendamm, GermanyThis yearr's summit of the G8 heads of government will likely be remembered as a "how not to" organise such an event, for the contrast between the expectations it raised and its negligible accomplishments, and for...
Marwaan Macan-Markar in BangkokBURMA'S acting prime minister, Thein Sein, has summed up in four words the political direction his country is headed for once a new constitution is approved. It will be a ''developed discipline-flourishing democratic state,'' he says. His...
FE ReportAmbassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Bangladesh Ahmad Karim Nawabi paid a visit to the Islamic University of Technology (IUT), a subsidiary organ of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Thursday. The IUT Vice-Chancellor M Fazli...
Eight persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Bagerhat, three people were killed and two others injured in separate incidents in Chitalmari and Mollahat...
PANCHAGARH, June 9 (UNB) : Prevailing urea fertilizer crisis may hit jute cultivation in the district in the current season.Jute cultivators said that they could not use urea on about 550 hectares of land, as they didn't receive any for...
Chairman of Paturia-Daulatdia Padma Setu Bastabayan Parishad Muhammad Sham-ul-Haque in a statement urged the government to approve the project to build a bridge with railway lines on BOT or BOO basis over the river Padma at Paturia-Daulatdia point to be...
The World Day Against Child Labour will be observed in the ILO member countries including Bangladesh on June 12 with the theme "Harvest for the future: Agriculture without child labour", reports BSS. To observe the day at the national level,...
NAOGAON, June 9 (UNB): Train communication on the Parbatipur-Khulna-Rajshahi route remained halted since Friday night as an engine along with seven compartments of a freight train derailed at Atrai rail station here.Railway sources said the engine and the seven compartments...
The annual urs of Mia Saheber Maidan, Luxmi Bazar marking the 28th death anniversary of 7th Sajjadanshin of the khankah sharif Alhaj Hazrat Shah Sufi Sayeed Ahmad Ullah ® will be held on the khankah premises today (Sunday), said a...
A discussion on the 150th anniversary of 1857 movement was held at the Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) of Dhaka University (DU) Saturday, reports BSS. National Committee for Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Great Mutiny organised the discussion with its convener...
National University (NU) Vice-chancellor (VC) Wakil Ahmed returned home Friday morning after attending the Council Meeting of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) held at Penang City, Malaysia, said a press release. He had left the city for Malayaisa on...
Chief Adviser (CA) of caretaker government (CG) Fakhruddin Ahmad informed the visiting EU-Troika delegation that his government was committed to holding a free, fair and credible election after completion of the ongoing reforms to hand over power to an elected...
The European Union (EU) Troika delegation said in the city Saturday that it was necessary to create a congenial atmosphere for holding a free and fair election "soon".They were quoted as telling some Awami League (AL) leaders who called on...
SREEPUR (Gazipur), June 9 (bdnews24.com): Sreepur Municipality of Gazipur district has donned a festive look as the locale for the voters' list pilot project that begins today (Sunday). Voters would also be provided with national identity (ID) cards under the...
SATKHIRA, June 9 (UNB): The members of Bangladesh Riffles (BDR) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) traded gunfire across separate frontier points in the district early SaturdayThe BDR sources said the BSF troops of Arshikori camp fired three shots on...
MEHERPUR, June 9 (UNB): Meherpur Municipality Chairman arrested in an extortion case was sent to jail when produced before the court today.Joint forces picked up Motassim Billah Motu from his home in the town Friday night. Police said Ahlladi Begum,...
MONOHARDI, Narsingdi, June 9 (BSS): Chinese Ambassador Zheng Qingdian said here today that his country would continue to support Bangladesh for the expansion of education and skill development.Addressing a function during a visit to Narandi-China Friendship Centre here, he said...
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina Saturday took a dig at the security men over their "ultra-stringent behaviour" to let visitors into her Sudha Sadan home, reports bdnews24.com. She asked the head of the contingent to explain the excessive control and...
The deputy commissioners (DCs) have asked the government for power to take legal action against corruption and irregularities by the elected local government representatives, reports bdnews24.com. They have also suggested keeping the members of parliament (MPs) away from relief operations....
Charge hearing on a graft case against former telecommunication minister Mohammad Nasim begins today (Sunday) at the special makeshift judge's court at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with the deposition by prosecution witnesses, reports UNB.According to the case, Nasim, by abusing power,...
JHALAKATI, June 9 (UNB): A local leader of the Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal was arrested Saturday on charge of cattle lifting.
LONDON, June 9 (AFP): World oil prices bounced higher this week, but ended on a flat note as traders tracked US supply news alongside a rogue cyclone in the Middle East. Precious metals gold and silver retreated as the US...
NEW YORK, June 9 (AFP): The dollar firmed against the other major currencies yesterday as US trade data showed a surprisingly shrinking deficit that reinforced the notion of stronger growth that could mean higher interest rates. At 2100 GMT, the...
COPENHAGEN, June 9 (AFP): The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) yesterday advised against all fishing of cod in the North Sea, Kattegat, the eastern Baltic Sea and the English Channel. An ICES report published yesterday said...
KATHMANDU, June 9 (Xinhua): India has agreed to exchange 40 mw more of electricity with Nepal by October, local newspaper The Himalayan Times reported today. The agreement was reached at the eighth meeting of the Nepal- India Power Exchange Committee...
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