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Forrest Cookson 2017-10-30 00:00:00
The single largest market for "Made in Bangladesh" garments is the United States of America. In 2016, Bangladesh exported US$5.5 billion worth of garments to the US market slightly less than the $5.6...
Mehdi Mahbub 2017-10-30 00:00:00
People with special abilities, generally known as persons with disabilities, who constitute 10 per cent of the total population, are very much part of our society. Unfortunately, this huge number of p...
Nilratan Halder 2017-10-28 12:47:46
When Bangla calendar has heralded the season Hemanto noted for the overhanging haze, there is surprise for all keen observers. First, the haze is missing. It gave for most part of the first week the f...
Md. Mazadul Hoque 2017-10-28 12:46:44
Agent banking operation in the country's far-flung areas has turned out to be a money multiplier among unbanked population getting access to need-based services, including small-scale investment facil...
Sajid Amit 2017-10-28 12:43:23
Financial inclusion can be simply defined as the universal access to and use of affordable, quality financial services, provided responsibly. The goal of financial inclusion is to bring the financiall...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-10-26 08:25:19
Now this is official. Inequality has increased in the country as economic growth is moving upward. On one hand, the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) surged to 7.11 per cent in FY16 from 5.5...
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A man was stabbed to death allegedly by his wife and children over family feud at Charbaria in the suburb area of Barisal district town on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Moktar Bepari (45),...
Nilratan Halder 2017-10-21 12:43:25
The Blue Whale saga is on a relentless march worldwide. The terrible computer or video game has been making screaming headlines in Bangladesh for a few days now. However, the picture is yet to be clea...
Sir Frank Peters 2017-10-21 12:42:11
There are at least two questions without answers in the world today: how long is a piece of string and when will hideous corporal punishment to children end? The piece of string is harmless enough, b...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2017-10-21 12:40:36
The military experiences of the Euro-American clique suggest that technology in some way is a dynamic, absolute force to which people's doctrines, strategies and force structures must be adapted and a...
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A case was filed against a man of Magura under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act for allegedly posting the distorted photos of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook. Tarikul I...
Monira Munni 2017-10-19 10:12:37
Five global-rights groups made a fresh plea to the European Commission (EC) to recheck Bangladesh's GSP status as they alleged continuous denial of core labour rights in the country's apparel industry...
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Students from the International Turkish Hope School, Dhaka, have won a study trip to visit the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney as winners of the Bangladesh schools video competition 2017.&nbs...
Xinhua 2017-10-18 12:00:00
At least six policemen were killed and 22 others injured when a suicide blast hit a security forces truck in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday morning, local Urdu TV channel AJJ repo...
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Islamic University (IU) authorities will first ever enroll foreign students in different academic programmes under its current 2017-18 academic session, a news agency reported. A total of 50 students...
Reuters 2017-10-18 02:08:15
An explosion overnight in the southern Swedish town of Helsingborg caused extensive damage to the entrance of a police station, authorities said on Wednesday. Nobody was injured in the explosion, whi...
S. M. Formanul Islam 2017-10-17 12:33:10
Mr. X is a very smart senior officer in a company. His room is well decorated, air conditioned, brightly lit, and glass windows are covered by expensive blinders. The air conditioner (AC) of his room...
Tanzeem Chowdhury 2017-10-17 12:31:53
There is ample opportunity to bridge the nation's gas crisis with alternate fuels. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is the greenest form of alternate fuel as LPG produces low carbon footprint when burned...
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Demand for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) risen significantly in Bangladesh with growth of over 42 per cent to 45 per cent. Eleven private sector companies are working in the LPG sector with Bashundhar...
-- 2017-10-17 12:28:55
The beginning, in the year of 1999, Bashundhara LP Gas Limited, started off as the First Private LP Gas importing, bottling and marketing company in Bangladesh.The company has a state-of-the-art LP Ga...
AP 2017-10-16 12:42:57
An oil rig exploded Sunday night in Lake Pontchartrain in St. Charles Parish, a Louisiana police department said. Kenner Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brian McGregor said Sunday evening that rescu...
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Police arrested two men along with 860 pieces of Yaba from Pingalkathi Bazar and Paschim Dumuria villages of Gournadi upazila of Barisal on Sunday night. The arrestees were identified as Md Idris Bar...
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Some unidentified miscreants hacked a security guard to death and snatched four motorcycles from the garage of a house in Truck Road of Chandpur town in the wee hours of Monday. The deceased was iden...
-- 2017-10-15 11:30:10
An electrician was killed in a road accident at Choumohoni in Uzirpur upazila of Barisal on Saturday night. The accident occurred when a battery-run auto-rickshaw collided with a motorcycle, leaving...
Xinhua 2017-10-15 11:20:01
The Egyptian armed forces on Saturday frustrated a terrorist attack that was targeting a security check point in the North Sinai city of Arish, killing at least two militants, the army said in a state...
BBC 2017-10-15 01:27:19
The first scheduled commercial airline service to the remote British island of St Helena in the south Atlantic has touched down safely. The virgin flight, an SA Airlink service from South Africa, end...
Pamelia Khaled 2017-10-14 12:26:58
Ibn al-Shatir, whom historian David King calls 'the most distinguished Muslim astronomer of the 14th century', is someone whose astronomical model is believed by historians to have been taken over by...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2017-10-14 12:23:16
It is really an irony to see that a superpower like the United States of America is distancing itself from closed allies under the leadership of President Trump who is also under tremendous pressure a...
Raihan M Chowdhury 2017-10-14 12:00:00
Obaidul Huq (1911-2007), an eminent journalist, movie maker, novelist and raconteur, is no doubt an iconic figure in our literary world. He had edified our intellectual ethos for decades. He had made...
Nilratan Halder 2017-10-14 12:00:00
Marriages happen in heaven, they say. Or how else a carpenter with no education beyond literacy from Bangladesh can have a Nepalese girl as his spouse? For a Nepalese girl born and brought up in a hom...
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