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Bt Brinjal turns out to be ‘upset case’

The cultivation of genetically engineered Bt Brinjal in the country’s several districts has cost the farmers their fortunes again this year as the plants have either died out prematurely or fruited very insignificantly compared to the locally available varieties, reports United News of Bangladesh. Bt brinjal ( GM aubergine ) farmer in Gazipur, BangladeshSpot visits to 12 Bt Brinjal fields in Manikganj, Narsingdi and Comilla over the last one month hardly found any living or properly fruiting plant on those...

Viner named Guardian’s first female editor

Katharine Viner is to become the first female editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper. Viner, currently editor-in-chief of the broadsheet’s New York-based US website, will take over from the departing Alan Rusbridger in the summer. [caption id="attachment_14118" align="alignleft" width="300"]viner-wbn Katharine Viner will become the first female editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper. This AFP photo taken on October 15, 2006 shows editor Viner poses at the Off-Broadway opening night performance of My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the Minetta Lane ...

IBBL recommends 15pc cash dividend

The Board of Directors of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited recommended 15% cash dividend for the shareholders for the year 2014 subject to approval of the 32nd Annual General Meeting of the Bank. This was decided in a meeting of the Board held at Islami Bank Tower on March 21, 2014 Saturday with its Acting Chairman Engr. DSC_0472Mustafa Anwar in the chair. Local and Foreign Directors of the Board along with Mohammad Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Managing Director of the Bank attended the meeting. The meeting approved the Profit & Los...

Turning to education for fun

In a 2013 episode of “60 Minutes,” Charlie Rose visits Bill Gates’s office to get a sense of where the billionaire philanthropist draws intellectual inspiration. First, Mr. Gates shows Mr. Rose the Codex Leicester, a 500-year-old Leonardo da Vinci manuscript that Mr. Gates bought in 1994 for $30 million. educationThen, with just as much as enthusiasm and nearly as much reverence, Mr. Gates leads Mr. Rose to a bookcase filled with DVDs from the Great Courses. As the camera pans across various titles, Mr. Rose notes that Mr. Gates, a Harvard ...

Iran upbeat over nuclear talks

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says that progress made in nuclear talks means a final deal can be reached. “There is nothing that cannot be resolved,” although some differences still remain, Iranian state media quoted him as saying. IranUS Secretary of State John Kerry also said that “substantial progress” had been made in the talks. Six world powers are negotiating a deal with Iran aimed at limiting its nuclear activity, with a late March deadline. Iran insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes but world powers fear it has mil...

ICAB workshop on pricing regulations

Chowdhury Amir Hossain, Member, International Taxes, NBR,   ICAB President Masih Malik Chowdhury FCA, others guests and DSC_6905participants are seen at pose for photograph at the inauguration session of a day long workshop on "Transfer Pricing Regulations & Practice" organised by ICAB Center for Professional Excellence (ICPE) at its auditorium on Saturday, 21 March 2015.
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