FE Report Prices of vegetables increased on Friday compared with a week ago due to incessant rain in many parts of the country which affected farming, according to traders. Prices of onion and chilli also increased significantly in a week....
US labour costs in the second quarter recorded their smallest increase in 33 years amid tepid gains in the private sector, but it likely was a temporary setback against the backdrop of diminishing labour market slack, reports Reuters. The unexpectedly...
United Parcel Service Inc (UPSN), the world's largest courier company, said it would buy Coyote Logistics from private equity firm Warburg Pincus for $1.8 billion to expand its full-truckload services, reports Reuters. Coyote Logistics, which reported revenue of $2.1 billion...
Everjobs, the fastest growing job portal in emerging markets, has identified jobs in Information Technology as the most popular, followed by banking and newspaper jobs. In June 2015 a boom in job applications was observed on the platform. Analysis of...
The Award Giving Ceremony of 10th Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards, funded by Citi Foundation, philanthropic arm of Citigroup and managed by Citibank, N.A., Bangladesh in collaboration with Credit and Development Forum (CDF), will be held today (Saturday) at 11.00 am at ...
Robi is sponsoring a Beach Cleaning project to keep the longest beach in the world clean and the pride of Bangladesh for the tourists. Thousands of tourists flocking to the Beach city round the year are enjoying the benefits of...
India's annual infrastructure output growth slowed to 3 per cent in June, on the back of a sharp slowdown in electricity production, government data showed on Friday. Output had grown 4.4 per cent year-on-year in May. Electricity production expanded an...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) reiterated its strong commitment of clamping down on wilful defaulters by taking stern action against them to make the banking sector more efficient in credit operations, reports BSS. "While the cases of the credible borrowers with...
The three-day 3rd South Asia Regional Public Procurement Conference will be held in the city on November 1-3 next in a bid to make the public procurement systems of the South Asian countries more effective, reports UNB. The conference will...
RAJSHAHI, July 31 (BSS): Fish production target has been set at 70,084 tonnes in the district this year. District Fisheries Officer Golam Rabbani disclosed this at a meeting here and expressed the hope that the target would be achieved. There...
RAJSHAHI, July 31 (BSS): Senior bankers have asked their newly recruited colleagues to follow the basic concepts in banking activities strictly to gain professionalism in the sector. They added the junior bankers should know about the basic concepts of banking...
Ziaur Rahman | 2015-08-01 00:00:00
Mongla Port, country's second-largest seaport, bounced back from virtual dereliction into vibrant operation and earned a net profit of Tk 601.20 million (Tk 60.12 crore) in the last fiscal through handling rising external trade. Officials said the profit earned in...
RANGPUR, July 31 (BSS): Agriculture experts at a crop cutting ceremony have stressed for expanded cultivation of short duration, off-season and indigenous parija paddy adopting newer cropping pattern for food security amid adverse climate. Expanded cultivation of parija rice as...
The second day's play of the series deciding second Test of the two-match National Polymer Cricket Series between Bangladesh and visiting South Africa has been called off due to incessant rain, reports UNB. The Friday's play was officially called off...
At least 38 fishermen went missing as two fishing trawlers sank in the Bay of Bengal in Monpura upazila during storm on Thursday. The victims hail from Goalia village in Sakuchia union of the upazila. Quoting fishermen of other trawlers,...
A septuagenarian man was killed as a mud house collapsed on him at Dewga village here on Friday. The deceased was identified as Tayeb Ali, 75, son of late Syed Ali Dewan of the village. Member of Sadar union parishad...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-07-31 00:00:00
Will the New Development Bank (NDB) of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa) reshape the world's financial system? We hope, it will. For long, the BRICS countries and other underdeveloped countries have been saying that the Bretton Woods system...
Sharjil M Haque | 2015-07-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh's recent promotion to lower middle- income status by the World Bank has created extensive discussion in the media on its implications and path forward for the economy. For instance, Dr. Biru Paksha Paul carried out an interesting exercise, based...
Lack of prompt decision on some of the hindrances facing the Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane highway project is reportedly causing undesirable delay for its completion. Over and above, implementation of the project without addressing a few of the critical tasks may risk...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-07-31 00:00:00
The man who made it a point that there must not be an official holiday, rather an extra day of work, might as well wish no mourning on his physical demise. For it is no more than his bodily absence;...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-07-31 00:00:00
On July 13, 2015 the Indian government announced that it would soon take up the mega task of connecting Teesta-Ganga-Manas-Sankosh rivers across the states of Assam, West Bengal and Bihar in consultation with the governments of the respective states. An...
The Ministry of Finance approved two festival bonuses per year even for the retired government employees who surrendered 100.0 per cent of their pension entitlement which was effective from the financial year 2008-09. Earlier the government raised the pensioners' net...
The telephone bill for the month of May 2015 was received on July15 '15 though the bill was dated June 01, 2015 and the last payment date was June 30'15. I am living within the post code Dhaka-1000 and it...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-07-31 00:00:00
During monsoon in the recent years, a waterlogged Chittagong makes front-page news almost routinely. That life in this otherwise attractive metropolis will grind to a halt due to submerged roads and inundated low-lying areas was once unthinkable. Chittagong was famed...
A fire broke out at a plastic factory in Hazaribagh area of Dhaka city on Thursday night. Sources at the Fire Service Central Control Room said the fire erupted at the factory around 10:45pm. On information, six fire-fighting units rushed...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-31 00:00:00
BOGRA, July 30: Due to dishonest fishermen and frequent drying of water-based pond, canal, river and khari the indigenous species of fishes are on the way of declining from Bogra district. Local people said around four big rivers, several hundred...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-31 00:00:00
PABNA, July 30: Vehicle owners, labourers and farmers in Pabna are being cheated by adulterated mobil and lubricants being sold by unscrupulous traders in the district, according to sources. Baby Islam, owner of King Paribahan and Firoz Hossain, president of...
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