SUCHITRA SEN / Tale of a Bengal sweetheart
Sheikh Arif Bulbon :Six decades ago, long before Aishwarya Rai and Kareena Kapoor set out to prove that married actresses could be celluloid heroines, a...
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Vietnam urged to speed up disbursement of ADB loans
Xinhua, Hanoi :Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao urged Vietnam Wednesday to accelerate disbursement of ADB loans.The visiting ADB governor made the appeal at...
BBS to hold Rural Credit Survey
BSS, Dhaka :Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will conduct a Rural Credit Survey across the country to undertake further development programmes and disburse agricultural credit...
Rural women contributing largely in alleviating poverty
BSS, Rangpur :The rural women have been contributing largely in alleviating abject poverty, enhancing rural economy and attaining self-reliance through various income-generating activities in the...
The car of the future today
AFP, Detroit :Cars that park themselves, radar- guided safety sensors and infotainment systems with web access; automakers are competing for customers who now expect constant...
Tofail advocates regional transit
bdnews24.com :Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said facilitation of transit and transshipment facilities to each other could help South Asian nations achieve greater economic integration.He...
Grameen license fee / Railways incur Tk 8.25cr loss in two fiscal
UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh Railway has incurred a loss of over Tk 8.25 crore in two fiscal years (FY07 and FY08) for realising license fee at...
‘Budget implementation main challenge’
bdnews24.com :Implementation of budget for the current fiscal is the major challenge before the new government, says former adviser to a caretaker government ABM Mirza...
Int’l tourist arrivals worldwide in 2013 surpass expectations: UNWTO chief
Xinhua, Madrid :With just under a week before the FITUR international tourism exhibition’s opening in the Spanish capital city, Taleb Rifai, secretary general of the...