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The ongoing probe into Delhi High Court blast has expanded to neighbouring Bangladesh. A team of National Investigating Agency (NIA) travelled to Dhaka to investigate the activities of certain medical students who belong to Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. NIA’s probe is focussed on the Jalalabad Ragib Rabeya Medical College and Hospital at Sylhet,…
Shifting of apparel orders from China to benefit Bangladesh as manufacturers in the leading Asian economy are now confronting some major issues such as high wages, increase in the prices of raw material, labour scarcity and high customs duty, experts said at a seminar held in Dhaka. Apparel buyers are currently shifting their orders from…
The deportation letter arrived just as Nadia Habib was starting her junior year at Stony Brook University, its message straightforward and scary: Please report to our offices on Sept. 29, and be prepared to leave the country. Habib, who moved to the U.S. from Bangladesh when she was a toddler, had known that she was…
For the first time since 1996 IBM’s market value has exceeded Microsoft’s. IBM’s closing price on 29 September was $214bn (£137.4bn) while Microsoft’s was a shade behind at $213.2bn (£136.8bn). The values cap a sustained period in which IBM’s share price has moved steadily upward as Microsoft’s has generally been in decline. The growth means…
United Nations, Sep 19 (goollu)Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the international community for strengthening regional and global cooperation mechanisms in fighting terrorism . She made this call in her keynote speech delivered at a symposium arranged by United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a UN conference room yesterday. Hasina also proposed…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday launched a programme honouring Rabindrânâth Tagore, Pablo Neruda and Aimé Césaire, three poets who, each in his own way, carried high the standard of humanist values. Beyond their different geographic, social and political contexts, Tagore, the Bengali world poet at the time that India…
Sources :Rice imports by Bangladesh, South Asia’s biggest buyer, may be half the amount forecast earlier by the government as local production increases and domestic prices decline, according an executive at the state food buyer. Shipments may total 400,000 metric tons in the year that began July 1 compared with 800,000 tons estimated two months…
Gorkha Union flays Indo-Bangla land swap deal “wherein Assam had to surrender more than 288 lakh sq ft land to neighbouring Bangladesh. The AAGSU leaders have slammed the UPA-led government at the Centre and the Congress government in the state for the Indo-Bangladesh land pact signed recently in Dhaka during the prime minister’s visit there.…
Sources :Intel and challenger ARM are set for a PC showdown this week as competition heats up to redefine the laptop and reverse the sagging fortunes of the PC market. Intel this week at its Intel Developer Forum developer show will provide further details on the rollout of ultrabooks, which have been described as thin…
Chopped up plastic bottles covered in a common chemical may be a simple and inexpensive method for removing arsenic from drinking water. A team of chemists at Monmouth University, United States, found that bits of plastic coated with cysteine, a common molecule found in foods, bind to arsenic. “Laboratory experiments have shown that the method…
ATN_4_September_2011_16-22_ATN_Bangla_Morning_News_5th_September_2011.wmvPrime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived Dhaka on a historic two-day visit to Bangladesh.The visit to Bangladesh that is expected to put the bumpy bilateral ties in a new trajectory through signing of deals in a range of sectors including extradition of sentenced persons, connectivity, power, exchange of enclaves and border management. This is the first…