Tazdiqul Alam Chowdhury | 2017-01-19 00:00:00
With a view to spreading the knowledge of advanced technology and encouraging the youngsters to involve in technological advancement, ‘Workshop on Making Drone’ was held on December 30 and 31, 2016 at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET). This...
Nabila Tabassum Haque | 2017-01-19 00:00:00
Without a doubt, the human resources (HR) department is highly critical for a organisation. Its many functions serve as a backbone for the company by providing everything--- from skilled and talented labour to management training services, employee enrichment opportunities and...
Syful Islam | 2017-01-19 00:00:00
Most contractors engaged in public-sector investment proposals, having foreign loans, crave for offshore insurance cover despite a legal barrier. Officials disclosed such preference being placed by the bidders although the Insurance Act made it mandatory to get the works insured...
Rabiul Islam Tushar | 2017-01-19 00:00:00
NAOGAON, Jan 18: Dragon, a delicious and nutritious foreign species of fruit, is being cultivated commercially in the district. It usually grows in the Southeast Asian as well as Central and South American countries. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE)...
Sayed Mofidul Babu | 2017-01-19 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Jan 18: Farmers of the district are making good profit from carrot farming this season. A good number of farmers who are involved in carrot cultivation expressed their satisfaction over the total output of the winter delicacy.. The soil...
Pieter Bottelier | 2017-01-19 00:00:00
As President Xi Jinping leads China's delegation to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, people there and everywhere would like to know from him and his delegation what lies ahead for China's economy. The question is hard to...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-01-19 00:00:00
The inefficient and inadequate public transport system of the country is gradually driving the people to look for some micro-level solutions to address commuting hassles. The growing number of motorcycles over the year may be seen as a proof. On...
S M Didarul Hasan in the first of a two-part article | 2017-01-19 00:00:00
What is digital marketing? "Achieving marketing objectives through applying digital technologies and media is called digital marketing." This is probably the simplest form of definition of digital marketing by Dave Chaffey. Digital marketing (social media marketing, blogging, email marketing, SEO,...
Foysal Kabeer | 2017-01-19 00:00:00
Illegal call termination of international calls (through illegal VoIP) has assumed the proportion of a national problem. After all, as one of the primary channels for hundi costing GOB over BDT 30 billion annually in foreign remittance that largely evades...
Munima Sultana | 2017-01-18 00:00:00
Use of coins of 01, 02 and 05 taka denomination has gradually been disappearing in most transactions in the absence of proper policy and strategy in coin circulation in the market. This has resulted in stockpiling of huge metal currency...
John Kemp of Reuters in London | 2017-01-18 00:00:00
Hedge fund bullishness towards the price of crude oil appears to have peaked for the time being, with fund managers booking some profits after the strong rally in the final seven weeks of 2016. Few managers are willing to bet...
People's Daily of China | 2017-01-18 00:00:00
The concept of "building a community of common destiny for mankind," proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the UN summit in 2015, is a solution China is offering to the world in light of interlinked global destiny, the People's...
M. A. Taslim | 2017-01-18 00:00:00
The economic wellbeing of a country is usually measured, for want of a better or simpler alternative, by gross domestic product (GDP). It is defined as the market value of all final goods and services produced in the country during...
Syful Islam | 2017-01-17 00:00:00
Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) will soon start negotiation with Saif Powertec for establishing a joint venture (JV) company, which will buy or charter mother vessels to carry crude fuel oil for Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC), officials said. In a recent...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-01-17 00:00:00
The revenue authority has taken a move to integrate taxpayers' identification number (TIN) with the Asycuda world system to make the number mandatory in a bill of entry. With the incorporation, the income tax authority can crosscheck importers' furnished information...
Giles Hewitt of AFP in Pyongyang | 2017-01-17 00:00:00
"That was a personal commission," says renowned North Korean sculptor Ro Ik-Hwa, pointing to a bust of A. Q. Khan, the Pakistani scientist denounced by the US as the world's greatest nuclear proliferator. The bust sits in Ro's workshop in...
Isabel Malsang of AFP in Paris | 2017-01-17 00:00:00
That smoked salmon you bought for the New Year's festivities has a story to tell. The salmon may have been raised in Scotland -- but it probably began life as roe in Norway. Harvested at a coastal farm, the fish...
Maija Unkuri of BBC in Helsinki | 2017-01-17 00:00:00
"I was so surprised when I got the letter, and a bit sceptical too," says Liisa Ronkainen, one of 2,000 Finns chosen for a government experiment to provide unemployed people with a basic income. Out of work for half a...
M. Serajul Islam | 2017-01-17 00:00:00
Washington is getting ready to welcome the 45th president whose inauguration will he held on January 20. The US capital is also getting ready to show a face to the new president that would be most unusual. Various groups with...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-01-17 00:00:00
South Asia, the most populous and the poorest region on earth, has been struggling for economic development for decades. Over the past decades, there were a lot of improvements on socio-economic front. But admittedly, the kind of politics that is...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2017-01-17 00:00:00
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. These are built on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
The government has rejected an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) proposal to define the country's insurance companies as financial institutions (FIs) under the Financial Institutions Act 1993. Officials said there is no scope to include the insurance companies in the list of...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
The ministry of commerce has taken a step to prepare a list of abandoned business establishments aiming to make them profitable through better management, officials said. As part of the step, the ministry will issue letters to the deputy commissioners...
Yimou Lee and Antoni Slodkowski of Reuters in Yangon | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
Myanmar's strongest ethnic armed group is set for its biggest leadership shake-up in a quarter century, senior sources told Reuters, raising the prospect of a period of instability in a group that is key to Aung San Suu Kyi's signature...
Sara Manisera of Al Jazeera in Sulaimania, Iraq | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
By a covered garden inside a quiet courtyard with white central columns, several small workshops are tucked away. "We have a lot of artists in this centre," explained Hawar Mustafa, a man with a moustache and a gentle face who...
Violeta Moura of Al Jazeera in Tel Aviv | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
They have fled war and repression, forced conscription and ethnic cleansing. Yet the vast majority of the estimated 45,000 African asylum seekers in Israel - mostly Eritreans and Sudanese - are not granted refugee status. Between 2009 and 2013, Israel...
Heather Somerville of Reuters in Santa Barbara, California | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
Nearly every technology startup wants the same thing: more data. But in the rush to collect all manner of information about customers, tensions are rising in Silicon Valley over whether such practices amount to a form of surveillance that customers...
John Tilak and Matt Scuffham of Reuters in Toronto | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
Canadian financial services group Desjardins is selling Western Financial, an insurance brokerage unit in Western Canada, six years after acquiring the business, sources familiar with the sale said. The asset, which includes a brokerage and a life insurance business, could...
John Lloyd of Reuters in Bremerhaven, Germany | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
Has Europe been infantilised? Is it now less capable than other regions or nations of determining its future with the force and strength required to preserve the coherent governance and relatively high standards of living that it's shown since the...
Md Nayem Alimul Hyder | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
The Internet has opened up a new possibility for trade and commerce, called electronic commerce. e-commerce involves the use of the Internet in advertising, identification, payment and supply of goods and services. Electronic commerce is rapidly growing as an impressive...
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