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Hollywood studios join Disney’s Movies Anywhere service

Hollywood studios join Disney’s Movies Anywhere service

Reuters 2017-10-12 12:00:00

Five Hollywood film studios have joined together to offer a new service designed to make it easier for consumers to collect digital movies that they can watch at home or on mobile devices, the studios...

Marital ups and downs may affect men’s heart health: study

Marital ups and downs may affect men’s heart health: study

Reuters 2017-10-12 12:00:00

Married men who see their relationship with their spouse improve over the years may also experience positive changes in their health that can lower the risk of heart disease, a recent U.K. study sugge...

Malawi curfew over ‘vampire' killings

Malawi curfew over ‘vampire' killings

BBC 2017-10-11 12:00:00

At least five people have been killed in southern Malawi after they were accused of behaving like vampires. The UN says it has pulled staff out of two districts as the vampire scare sweeps across the...

The dynamics of growth projections

The dynamics of growth projections

Asjadul Kibria 2017-10-11 12:00:00

Two leading multilateral lending agencies have released their projections on the growth rate of Bangladesh economy for the ongoing fiscal year (FY18). Their projections were released at the end of las...

Miscreants hack flexi-load trader to death

Miscreants hack flexi-load trader to death

-- 2017-10-11 01:47:23

A local flexi-load trader was hacked and slaughtered to death by some unidentified miscreants at Nandina Madhu village in Kamarkhanda upazila of Sirajganj on Tuesday night. The deceased was identifie...

Police recover bullet-hit body of ‘top terrorist’

Police recover bullet-hit body of ‘top terrorist’

-- 2017-10-10 12:00:00

A listed top terrorist was found dead on Comilla- Sylhet highway in Gazaria area of Sadar upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Linkon (40), son of Golam...

RUET admission test on Nov 17

RUET admission test on Nov 17

-- 2017-10-10 02:37:14

Admission test for first year honours classes for 2017-18 academic session of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) will be held on November 17. To this end, online application pr...

Turkey, US suspend visa services

Turkey, US suspend visa services

BBC 2017-10-09 11:26:34

Turkey and the US have become embroiled in a consular row, mutually suspending most visa services. The Turkish embassy in Washington said it needed to "reassess" the US government's commitment to the...

Limiting AGP use in food animals

Limiting AGP use in food animals

Hossan Md. Salim 2017-10-07 12:24:07

Antibiotic use in animal and poultry feeds has been there since the middle of the last century. These are used at sub-therapeutic levels to promote growth of food animals. However, judicial use of ant...

Building on RMG and looking beyond

Building on RMG and looking beyond

Prottoya Chowdhury 2017-10-07 12:00:00

Ready-made garment (RMG) has for almost two decades been Bangladesh's much-hyped economic success story, which the nation views as the cherished economic emancipation, the pride of a nation which star...

Taking the civil society on board

Taking the civil society on board

Md. Mahbubur Rahman 2017-10-07 12:00:00

In the din and bustle of the large movements of people worldwide, the annex II of the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants sets out steps towards the achievement of a Global Compact for...

Scaling a new height in OBOR era

Scaling a new height in OBOR era

Md Shahadat Hossain 2017-10-07 12:00:00

October 1, 1949 was the Memorial Day for the founding of the People's Republic of China and as such Chinese National Day is celebrated on this date every year to commemorate the founding of People's R...

Trump at the UN: Taking lessons from history

Trump at the UN: Taking lessons from history

Muhammad Mahmood 2017-10-07 12:00:00

President Trump's debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was marked by his most direct threat to attack North Korea. He also mocked Kim Jong-un as a "rocket man on a suicide missio...

Iraqi military recaptures Hawija

Iraqi military recaptures Hawija

Reuters 2017-10-05 12:51:59

Iraqi forces have captured the town of Hawija and the surrounding area from Islamic State, the military said in a statement on Thursday. With the capture of Hawija, the militants’ last strongho...

BB finds problem with BKB financials

BB finds problem with BKB financials

Syful Islam 2017-09-30 12:00:00

A central bank inspection team has detected 'window dressing' in the balance sheet of Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) to show its higher earnings and conceal provision shortfall to lower its net loss, of...

Suu Kyi's speech: A cover for the genocidal atrocities

Suu Kyi's speech: A cover for the genocidal atrocities

Muhammad Mahmood 2017-09-30 12:00:00

After weeks of urging from international leaders and international organisations, Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) eventually appeared on Tuesday, September 19, to address the issue of genocidal attacks on the...

Tributes to Nobel laureate poet Neruda

Tributes to Nobel laureate poet Neruda

MA Rahman 2017-09-30 04:52:11

September 23 last was marked by the 44th death anniversary of Nobel literature prize laureate Pablo Neruda. Born on July 12, 1904, he bade the world bye on this day in 1973. Pablo Neruda was the poet'...

Rohingya refugees: Will they go back?

Rohingya refugees: Will they go back?

M. Aminul Islam Akanda 2017-09-30 04:50:58

Rohingya Muslim refugees wait in a line for aid in Cox’s Bazar recently. The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar, has been being pushed out from their homeland for decades. There ha...

More public spending, not tax cuts, holds the sway

More public spending, not tax cuts, holds the sway

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram 2017-09-30 04:48:58

The Trump administration's promise to increase infrastructure spending should break the straightjacket the Republicans imposed on the Obama administration after capturing the US Congress in 2010. Howe...

In search of a lost world

In search of a lost world

Nilratan Halder 2017-09-30 04:47:12

The picture of a small boy running in wild joy just at the moment he, for the first time in his life, has been able to play a tune on the palm leaf flute is still fresh in the mind of a sexagenarian....

The evolution of Bangladesh readymade garment sector

The evolution of Bangladesh readymade garment sector

Forrest Cookson 2017-09-28 00:00:00

The readymade garment sector emerged through the establishment of several thousand factories. The following table gives the distribution of factories according to the employment size. There were 5,000...

Ensuring transparency and accountability

Ensuring transparency and accountability

Zillul Hye Razi 2017-09-28 00:00:00

The launch of a pilot phase for a four-year project in April this year to map the readymade garment (RMG) factories in Bangladesh ushered in a new chapter of accountability and transparency in the cou...

Enterprise-based training: The need of the hour of RMG industry

Enterprise-based training: The need of the hour of RMG industry

Mehdi Mahbub 2017-09-28 00:00:00

The readymade garment (RMG) sector is one of the economic lifelines of the country, but a bottleneck hampers the efficiency and productivity of the industry significantly. It is a hard fact that the i...

Effective communication -- a vital tool for building positive image of RMG sector

Effective communication -- a vital tool for building positive image of RMG sector

Riaz Khan 2017-09-28 00:00:00

The readymade garment (RMG) industry is the leading sector in Bangladesh in terms of foreign exchange earnings. It accounts for 80 per cent of total export earnings. In Bangladesh, 4.4 million people...

Encouraging investment thru' economic zones for rapid economic growth

Encouraging investment thru' economic zones for rapid economic growth

A Z M Azizur Rahman 2017-09-28 00:00:00

Investment is the prime vehicle for a country's overall development and progress, especially in the developing countries like Bangladesh. The contribution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and local...

Policy support in powering accessories sector ahead

Policy support in powering accessories sector ahead

Monira Munni 2017-09-28 00:00:00

The local accessories makers meet more than 90 per cent of the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector's demand and also that of the pharmaceuticals, leather, frozen fish and agro-based industries, e...

Technology, trade, climate: Orientation in disruptive times

Technology, trade, climate: Orientation in disruptive times

Olivier Zieschank and Mehdi Mahbub 2017-09-28 00:00:00

Switzerland-based International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) is one of the oldest global organisations, which has been serving the world textile sector since 1904. This knowledge-based body...

Throat-slit body of woman found

Throat-slit body of woman found

-- 2017-09-25 12:00:00

The slit-throat body of a woman was found at her house at Dawkia Latifabad village in Boropool area of Sadar upazila on Monday.    The deceased was identified as Parul (32), wife of one Sh...

When elephants are used for extortion

When elephants are used for extortion

Nilratan Halder 2017-09-22 08:47:55

When it comes to intelligence, the elephant comes next to man. Its imposing size is good enough to make people curious about it. Elephants can be trained to execute a number of difficult manoeuvres...

From regional security perspective

From regional security perspective

Md. Mahbubur Rahman 2017-09-22 08:44:49

Guarantying human rights increases security. This simple equation between human rights and security is not understood by the states in most cases. As a result, sometimes they violate human rights of...