Stressing the fact that education is the basic right, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday children must be enrolled in class I without any written admission test, reports UNB. "Whenever a child turns to the age of getting admitted...
Posts and Telecommunications Ministry Tuesday said all the mobile phone subscribers must re-register their SIMs within three months, reports UNB. The fresh directive came just a day after the BTRC Chairman's clarification that only the fake and flawed SIMs need...
FE Report | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
Local jewelers have reduced gold prices by up to Tk 1,050 per 'bhori' at domestic level in line with the decline in global price of the precious metal. The reduced prices will come into effect from today (Wednesday), said a...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
US oil company Chevron Bangladesh has bagged the first position among the corporate taxpayers for receiving 'tax card' followed by Karnaphully Fertiliser Company Ltd (KAFCO) and Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL). The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has selected a...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
The Bridge Division has finally sent the revised Padma Bridge project proposal early this week to the Planning Commission (PC), increasing its cost by nearly 40 per cent. The proposed project cost includes an allocation of Tk 1.76 billion for...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
The Financial Reporting Act has come into being, finally. However, the adoption of this important piece of legislation by the national parliament last Sunday has stirred up both ecstasy and disappointment in two opposing camps. Opposition and debates were aplenty...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
Government authorities have moved to restart import of petroleum products from the international oil market through tendering instead of term deals that are allegedly fraught with faults. The process kick-starts this very month, after a lapse of 15 years, officials...
FE Report | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith expressed the hope Tuesday that the pay rises for government service-holders would help reduce corruption in public sector and urged people not to bribe any venal official. "People should refuse paying since no government employee now...
FE Report | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission probe committee on the BASIC Bank scam submitted Tuesday its report, with a recommendation for filing a raft of 54 graft cases. However, the bank's then chief, Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu, was learnt to have been left...
A bill, titled the Nuclear Power Plant Bill 2015, was passed in the Jatiyo Sangsad (JS) on Tuesday to scrap the Nuclear Power Plant Ordinance 2015, and to facilitate setting up nuclear power plants in the country. Science and Technology...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
Textile manufacturing sector and readymade garment industry (also the knitwear segment) are in fact inseparable and rolled into one. The burgeoning readymade garment and knitwear sector has set a goal to reach $50 billion export by 2021. While this appears...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
The Economic Census 2013 identified over eight million cottage, micro, small, medium, large, permanent / seasonal, rural and urban, manufacturing and service-oriented enterprises in Bangladesh. These enterprises produce thousands of products and services under 225 categories. Business leaders say there...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
The People's Republic of China (PRC) observed on Thursday (September 03) the 70th anniversary of victory in the 'People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression' as the years leading up to and during the Second World War are known in...
The projection made by a foreign port-consulting firm about the rise in container traffic at the Chittagong Port over the next 15 years is sure to produce a mixed feeling. From the just concluded fiscal year's 1.8 million twenty-foot equivalent...
Wasi Ahmed | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
It came as no less than a shock when we came to know how little has so far been achieved in the remediation of the faulty garment factories in the country. The time already spent in the process spans more...
Ridwan Quaium | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
In most big cities around the world it is common to see pedestrians crossing the road using the designated crosswalks or using the road-crossing facilities such as foot-over-bridge or underpass. In fact, in many big cities, while crossing the road...
Mobile phone or cell phone has become a part of our daily necessity. Nowadays almost everyone has a mobile phone as it is cheap and affordable. You will hardly come across any one who does not own a mobile phone....
At a time when an easy and convenient mode of public transport is becoming dearer, bicycle could be an important alternative. The other day, as I had to reach my office in early morning for some urgent piece of work,...
The lower and middle income people of the country are indeed becoming increasingly frustrated with rising prices of essentials. As they have a limited budget out of a limited income, they cannot go to the kitchen market and buy every...
A K M Masudur Rahman | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
Product diversification is a process of expanding business opportunities through additional market potential of an existing product. Diversification may be achieved by entering additional markets or pricing strategies. Often the product may be improved, altered or changed, or new marketing...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
In 2011, when gasoline prices surged over four dollars a gallon, billionaire Donald Trump, a Republican presidential hopeful in 2012, thought he had a solution. He boasted if he became the president, he would go to Libya, and take all...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
BOGRA, Sep 7: The farmers here in twelve upazilas of Bogra district have started cultivation of advanced winter vegetables abundantly across the area as it is proved to them more lucrative within very short time and cheap costing. The farmers...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Sept 7: Cattle fattening with detrimental drugs is going on unabated in all the eight districts under Rangpur division on the eve of the holy Eid-ul-Azha, while the authority concerned seems to be oblivious to the matter. Sources alleged...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 7 (UNB): A cattle trader, who fell unconscious after having a meal along with 35 people at a restaurant at Bypass cattle market in the city on Sunday, died here in Rajshahi Medical College Hospital early Monday. The...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
PABNA, Sept 7: The farmers have been rotting their jute plants in the rivers and other water bodies of the district as the 'ribbon retting', a new method for rotting the plants with less water, is yet to gain popularity...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
SYLHET, Sept 7: The much talked about case of Samiul Alam Rajon killing has been transferred to the Sylhet metropolitan sessions judge court today from the metropolitan magistrate court, sources informed. The next date of the case's hearing was set...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 7 (BSS): Climate change is becoming a threat to the urban environment and the uncertainty that arises due to climate change needs to be considered in the overall urban risk management framework, speakers at a discussion here said...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
BOGRA, Sep 7: Ornamental stitching, embroidering, sewing clothes and spangling on women's clothes have brought happiness for around 1000 rural women in Bogra district including twelve upazilas from last ten years. Receiving short-term training from Youth Development Centre the unemployment...
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