Staff Reporter
The Government is learnt to have brushed aside the Asian Development Bank’s advice for the increase of fuel prices immediately to avoid further price hike of essentials and sufferings of the people.“We will not raise oil prices until the end of boro season in April,” said Dr M Tamim, a Special Assistant to the [...]

The Central Shaheed Minar was flooded with flowers as thousands barefooted, wearing black ribbons and holding bouquets close to their bosoms thronged there to pay homage to the brave sons of the soil. [Read more]

Eleven people, including two children, have been killed and more than 5,000 displaced by floods in Indonesia this week, officials said Friday. [Read more]

Sheikh Arif Bulbon
The spread of deadly bird flu in the country has forced the closure of 40 per cent of the poultry farms and left half a million poultry workers jobless, said officials of the Bangladesh Poultry Association.The virus was still ‘under control,’ although it has spread to 43 out of the country’s 64 districts, [...]

Icy temperatures have swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts, just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. [Read more]

Syful Islam
A food crisis is prevailing in the whole of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) as crops have been damaged by ‘rat flood’ and the residents have little hope of getting rice or other Jhum crops.Hordes of rats have eaten most crops and Jhum plants in some of areas of CHT and indigenous people are reported [...]

UNB, Dhaka
Foreign Advisor Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said Vietnam would sell rice to Bangladesh responding to the request of the country.He said, “despite the fact that Vietnam had severe floods in 2007 and their harvest will not take place before February-March, Vietnam is responding to the request of a friendly country like Bangladesh, and is [...]

Gen Moeen attributed the price-hike of essentials to production loss of about 20 lakh tons due to two floods and cyclone last year, increase in rice price in international market and exorbitant transportation cost due to increased fuel price. [Read more]

Gen Moeen attributed the price-hike of essentials to production loss of about 20 lakh tons due to two floods and cyclone last year, increase in rice price in international market and exorbitant transportation cost due to increased fuel price. [Read more]

Gen Moeen attributed the price-hike of essentials to production loss of about 20 lakh tons due to two floods and cyclone last year, increase in rice price in international market and exorbitant transportation cost due to increased fuel price. [Read more]