Jasim Uddin Haroon, back from Istanbul | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
Turkey is building the world's biggest airport in Istanbul with having a capacity of 150 million passengers a year mainly to cope with its thriving air traffic. The national flag carrier of Turkey is eyeing to grab a major chunk...
Munima Sultana | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has constructed some pillars of the Padma bridge even before confirmation of the entire bridge design just to make up for the time loss. The contractor has already been six months behind the schedule with...
Abdelazizz Ahmed of Al Jazeera in Erbil, Iraq | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
Eight-year-old Hiwa is delighted when she gets to pet the birds and puppies brought by a group of volunteers to Iraq's Qushtapa camp. "We are already friends. I sing with the birds all the time," Hiwa said. In the Qushtapa...
Ahmed al-Haj of AP in Hodeidah | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
Sitting by her son's hospital bed, Houdaid Masbah looks at her 5-year-old boy's skeletal body and sunken cheeks, helplessness engulfing her like a thick cloud - a desperation she shares with many other mothers in Hodeidah. Even before the war,...
Supriya Kurane and Robin Paxton of Reuters in Bengaluru | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
Oracle employees were at work last Monday when protesters entered their nine-storey building in India's technology hub, Bengaluru, and asked them to leave in support of demonstrations that had erupted across the city over a water dispute. By early afternoon,...
Dave Stamboulis of BBC | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
It was a searing 43C in the shade, but Dawit, a young Ethiopian guide, said temperatures here in the Danakil can top 50C. One of the more remote spots on the planet, northeastern Ethiopia's Danakil Depression holds the title as...
Estelle Peard of AFP in Frankfurt | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
One year ago, Volkswagen's cheating on emissions tests for millions of its diesel cars erupted into public view, leaving the mammoth carmaker battling an unprecedented crisis. Barely a week has passed since that has not seen a fresh twist in...
Ahmad Md Shakil | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
Adam Smith is considered the Father of Economics for his book titled "An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" published in 1776. This is the compilation of five related books. Of these five books, the...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
Cow fattening has become a cause for serious concern, particularly ahead of the sacrifice of the animal on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Random use of steroid-like substances for the purpose has been reported in the media. Last year, the death...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
Farmers and industrial workers provide life-blood of the Bangladesh economy. The comparative advantage that Bangladesh enjoys in terms of cheap labour costs emanates from the hard-working labourers of the country. But it is unfortunate that despite making such an enormous...
Devesh Kapur in Philadelphia | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim's nomination for a second term is inexorably moving forward with a lack of transparency that has become all too typical. Many observers are once again gnashing their teeth at the United States' continued monopoly...
Kemal Dervis and Zia Qureshi in Washington, DC | 2016-09-17 00:00:00
Over the last decade or so, productivity growth has slowed considerably in most major developed economies, even as impressive advances have been made in areas like computing, mobile telephony, and robotics. All of these advances ostensibly should have boosted productivity;...
Jubair Hasan and Ismail Hossain | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Sales of rawhides of the sacrificial animals have kicked off in the capital amid higher preservation cost triggered by soaring salt prices, prompting the seasonal traders to sell out their stocks due to fear that such skins might get rotten...
Jasim Uddin Haroon, back from Istanbul, Turkey | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Turkish Airlines wants to fly to more cities in Asia as it considers the continent to be "very important" growth play, the head of its national flag carrier has said. "Asian market is very much important for us … ,"...
Andreas Illmer of BBC | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Sprinkled across the oceans around the globe, some 60 of Hanjin Shipping's cargo vessels are stranded at sea. The company filed for bankruptcy two weeks ago. The Hanjin Rome is nestled between countless other ships off the coast of Singapore,...
Elizabeth Garone of BBC | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Alex Tew is not really known for following the crowd. His mantra has always been to see what everyone else is focusing on and to do the opposite. In 2005, Tew was obsessed with one thing: making money, enough to...
Yolande Knell of BBC | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Every year, 3,000 couples fly from the Middle East to Cyprus to get married. It's the easiest place to go if they want a civil ceremony rather than a religious one. A cheesy love song blares out from tinny speakers...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
On any given day, more than a billion children across the world go to primary and secondary schools. But schooling is not always a positive experience for all children. It can mean shivering in cold, in unheated buildings or sweltering...
Saleh Akram | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Bangladesh produced record quantity of tea last year. The Tea Board suggests that the way things are moving, production this year is expected to beat that record too. Rise of production in any sector is good news - and more...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
China's close attention to the Southeast Asian countries, especially Cambodia and Laos, has started paying off. Their pivotal positions in the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) bloc as well as politically sensitive Mekong region have in fact made them...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
Operations of courier companies are coming under strict regulation as per new rules to prevent duty evasion and offences like couriering contrabands. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has framed the rules to bring activity of courier-service companies under customs...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
Sales of sacrificial animals at different markets in the city picked up on Sunday with prices of cattle head showing a downward trend. According to traders, sales increased nearly 60 per cent on the day against the less than 10...
Syful Islam | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
The department of shipping (DoS) has opposed a proposal put forward by the United Nations (UN) to keep the Shela river route closed permanently to the movement of all vessels, officials said. A team from the World Heritage Centre of...
Babul Barman | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
Seven companies and five mutual funds (MF) raised an aggregate amount of Tk 6.98 billion from the public in eight months (January-August) of the current calendar year. The companies which raised funds through floating initial public offerings (IPO) are Dragon...
Marwan Bishara of Al Jazeera in Doha | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
It's terribly annoying - not to say revolting - to read Western "experts" as they present a division of Syria as the "best", "most logical", or even "the only" solution to the civil war there. I remember a few years...
Shamsul Alam | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) opened a new frontier of development for the world community including Bangladesh. The Constitution of the country provides for equal opportunities for all citizens and the present government is committed to implementing this, while mindful...
Neil Ray | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
That the country's under-16 girls' football team have qualified for the eight-team final round to be held in Thailand is an achievement by itself. This is a feat that has made the entire nation proud. But quite a few undesirable...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
Are the days of distributing favour to a selected few through licence and permits back? Officially speaking, there is nothing like it. But one particular action says otherwise. The action relates to import of one essential item -- salt. With...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
The Eid ul-Azha derives its origin from the 196th verse of second Surah, Al Baqara ( The Cow), and the word "Eid" appears in the fifth Sura al-Mai'da (The Table Spread), of the Holy Qur'an, meaning 'solemn festival'. The days...
M Serajul Islam from Maryland, USA | 2016-09-11 00:00:00
In New York, on board the aircraft carrier Intrepid of Second World War vintage that is now the Intrepid, Sea, Air and Space Museum, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump told the voters how they would act as the commander-in-chief if...
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