Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Bangladesh will allocate more space to Japan for setting up industries if they want, reports UNB.She said this when a Japanese parliamentary delegation told her that many Japanese companies are interested to invest...
ABUJA, Sept 5 (Reuters): Nigeria plans to set up the Nigerian Solid Minerals Corporation, a state-backed company to help attract investments into the extraction of gold, coal, iron-ore, bitumen, lead, limestone and baryte, a minister said on Sunday."The proposed corporation...
CAIRO, Sept 5 (Reuters): Egypt's state grains buyer bought about a half a million tonnes of Russian wheat in a private deal, four traders told Reuters, succeeding in negotiating lower prices than those offered in the more traditional tenders.One of...
Gold slipped to a one-week low on Tuesday as investors sought the US dollar after weak data in China, although rising expectations for a pause in interest rate increases by the US Federal Reserve limited losses, reports Reuters.Spot gold declined...
MUMBAI, Sept 5 (Reuters): Sugar prices in India have jumped by more than 3 per cent in a fortnight to their highest level in six years, traders and industry officials said, as limited rainfall in the country's key growing regions...
LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters): Oil prices slipped on Tuesday as fresh services data added to gloom over the state of the global economy, particularly China's stuttering post-pandemic recovery, although expectations of an extension in supply cuts by leading OPEC+ producers...
Australian lawmakers head to US to lobbyagainst efforts to extradite AssangeCANBERRA, Sept 05: A group of Australian lawmakers said Tuesday they would travel to Washington this month to lobby the United States to abandon its efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder...
YANGON, Sept 05 (AFP): Myanmar's junta will likely hold elections in 2025, party officials told AFP on Tuesday, even as the military struggles to crush resistance to its rule.The military justified its February 2021 putsch with unsubstantiated claims of widespread...
PARIS, Sept 05 (AFP): The world inched a step closer towards tackling plastic pollution, with the United Nations publishing the first draft of a binding treaty to tackle the scourge.Some 175 nations are working to reach a landmark agreement by...
WELLINGTON, Sept 05 (BBC): A device "the size of a dinner plate" was left in the abdomen of a woman in New Zealand after she gave birth via a Caesarean in an Auckland hospital. The Alexis wound retractor - a...
NEW DELHI, Sept 05 (BBC): A row has broken out in India after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government used the term "Bharat" in an official invite for the G20 Summit being sent on behalf of the president.Bharat is the Hindi...
NAIROBI, Sept 05 (AFP): US climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday that he hoped Washington and Beijing "could come together" in the fight against global warming, at a landmark summit in Kenya aimed at promoting Africa's potential as a green...
SEOUL, Sept 05 (BBC): North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin, a US official has told the BBC's US partner CBS. The two leaders will discuss the possibility of...
PANAMA CITY, Sept 05 (AFP): Panamanian international defender Gilberto Hernandez was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Caribbean city of Colon, police said Monday.Hernandez, who won two caps for Panama in March this year, including a friendly against Lionel...
Exactly one month from Tuesday (September 5), the World Cup will kick off. The International Cricket Council (ICC) in Dubai may be excused if temporarily it shifted its focus away from the tumultuous build-up to this pinnacle event in India....
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa, Sept 05 (AFP): South Africa coach Rob Walter said on Tuesday that Quinton de Kock has "unfinished business" after it was announced that the wicketkeeper will retire from one-day international cricket after the World Cup, which starts...
KANDY, Sri Lanka, Sept 05 (AFP): Wicketkeeper KL Rahul was named in India's squad Tuesday for the one-day World Cup but skipper Rohit Sharma was coy about his place in the XI after months sidelined by injury.Rahul will be in...
NEW YORK, Sept 05 (AFP): Carlos Alcaraz surged into the quarter-finals of the US Open on Monday as upsets dominated the women's draw with Ons Jabeur and Jessica Pegula becoming the latest highly ranked players to go crashing out.Defending champion...
After making a thrilling comeback to keep their Asia Cup hopes alive, Bangladesh are now eyeing to have a winning start in Super Four phase when they will take on hosts Pakistan at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore today (Wednesday), report...
A farmer tending tomato plants of summer varieties--Mangal Raja and Bari-8--in his garden in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district. The picture was taken on Tuesday — Focus Bangla
FARIDPUR, Sept 05 (UNB): At least 10 people were injured in a clash between interns and relatives of a patient over the death of a freedom fighter in alleged negligence in treatment at Faridpur Bangabandhu Medical College and Hospital in...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-09-06 00:00:00
State Minister for Youth and Sports Md. Zahid Ahsan Russell MP inaugurated a project of the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the ILO Bangladesh at a hotel in Cox's Bazar on Tuesday.The ILO is implementing the project, funded by...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-09-06 00:00:00
CHANDPUR, Sept 05: Ahmedabad Government Primary School in Rajargaon of Hajiganj upazila has been facing an acute shortage of sitting arrangement for the past 16 months. For want of the required number of benches, around 200 students of the school...
FIRUZ NAWER | 2023-09-06 00:00:00
Platelets are small, colourless cell fragments that play a vital role in the human body's ability to stop bleeding. It is also known as thrombocytes, bone marrow cell fragments that circulate and assist in blood clotting. When you are injured,...
SHEIKH HASIN ABRAR | 2023-09-06 00:00:00
In a world full of screens, notifications, and endless distractions, picking up a book and delving into its pages seems like a fading art. The art of reading, once a cornerstone of human intellectual growth, is now at risk of...
ARIYANA A KHAN | 2023-09-06 00:00:00
This summer, this writer set foot on a foreign land for the first time in 22 years of her life. She couldn't have asked for a better place to start her wanderlust journey. And she believes not sharing the wonderful...
Students and others have recently paid rich tributes and expressed their admiration and appreciation for all their teachers, marking the World Teachers' Day on October 5. Most of them took social media platforms to do that. All of us know...
Skyrocketing inflation continues to hit people across the country, with the latest annual inflation figure reaching 9.69 per cent in July 2023. This is the highest inflation rate in Bangladesh since May 2011. There are a number of causes behind...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-09-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh is producing an estimated 400,000 tonnes of pre-consumer textile waste annually. Currently, this waste is collected in an informal manner. Calls for recycling waste and turning it into finished apparels has been growing for sometime but in the absence...
Wasi Ahmed | 2023-09-06 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has recently released an elaborate study report on how creating economic corridor can be highly beneficial for Bangladesh by way of opening multiple avenues for production, transportation and supply-chain facilitation. The term economic corridor, coined...
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