Jahangir-bin-Alam concluding his two-part article | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
PORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND EFFICIENCY: Air and maritime ports in South Asia are generally considered less competitive than those in East Asia. Infrastructure and efficiency in ports of South Asia are lower than those of East Asia. For example, it takes...
RAJSHAHI, May 16 (BSS): More expansion of technical and vocational education and training among the unemployed youths, both male and female, has become an urgent need for substantial and sustainable growth of national economy. The expanded technical education could be...
RANGPUR, May 16 (BSS): The expanding dairy sector has started boosting the rural economy side by side meeting nutritional demand and changing socioeconomic condition of the commoners by alleviating poverty in the northern districts. According to the concerned officials, experts...
RAJSHAHI, May 16 (BSS): Time-fitting measures have become an urgent need to protect the farming system and public health sector in the dried region from the adverse impact of climate change for ensuring sound public life coupled with food security...
Our Correspondent | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
RANGPUR, May 16: Police recovered the slaughtered body of a teenage girl from a paddy field at Char Talpatti village under Morneya union at Gangachara upazila in Rangpur district Friday morning The deceased was identified as Shahina Khatun (14), daughter...
RANGPUR, May 16 (BSS): Speakers at a huge students-mothers' rally have stressed for eradicating child marriage from Betdighee union under Fulabri upazila in Dinajpur through ensuring 100 per cent birth registration. Fulbari Area Development Programme (ADP) of World Vision Bangladesh...
GAIBANDHA, May 16 (UNB): A man was killed and another injured as a wall fell on them during the storm at Mahimaganj Shripatipur village in Gobindaganj upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Azizul Haque, a resident of...
SUNAMGANJ, May 16 (UNB): Robbers looted cash money and valuables worth Tk 10 lakh from the house of an expatriate in Kazihata area of Chatak upazila of the district on Thursday night. Local people said, a group of robbers, numbering...
Our Correspondent | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
BRAHMANBARIA, May 16: Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project (HILIP) under Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) arranged a function of progressive exchange visit and knowledge sharing at Bogdohor village of Nabinagar upazila in Brahmanbaria Thursday. Country Programme Manager for...
GAIBANDHA, May 16 (BSS): A 3-day training workshop for the members and chairmen of school managing committee (SMC) ended at the hall room of NH Modern High School of the town here on Thursday. Sadar upazila secondary education office organized...
Youth's body recovered in Noakhali Police recovered the body of an unidentified youth from Char Boishaki area under Subarnachar upazila of the district this morning. Being informed, police rushed to the spot, recovered the body at about 7 am and...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
Export-oriented apparel units that use local fabrics indirectly eat up around 50 per cent of total cash incentives made available by the government each year, according to a finding that is sceptical about government move for rationalising huge disproportions. This...
FE Report | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
Speakers at a meeting in Dhaka suggested Saturday that the poor and developing countries should mobilise more internal resources instead of depending on external assistance to attain Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They also called for tapping local and foreign investments,...
The Commerce Secretary-level meeting between Bangladesh and India will be held in the city from May 17 to 18, reports BSS. A high-level Indian delegation, led by Indian Commerce and Industry Secretary Rajeev Kher, will visit Dhaka to hold the...
FE Report | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Saturday there will be no poor people in Bangladesh from 2019. "The rate of poverty will come down to 11 per cent in 2019 from the current level of 24 per cent," Mr Muhith said....
A moderate tremor has hit Nepal, sending shockwaves across Bangladesh's capital Dhaka and parts of the country. The 5.7-magnitude quake's epicentre was at Ramechhap, some 76 km from the capital Kathmandu, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. It followed a...
A total of 102 on-duty members of Bangladesh Police died of sickness, road accidents or attacks by miscreants in 2014. The deceased included 12 sub-inspectors(SIs), 12 ASIs, three inspectors, one ASP, one sergeant, one TSI (town sub-inspector), three ATSIs, two...
Munima Sultana | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
A plan to introduce a dedicated lane for plying buses from Gazipur to Keraniganj is in limbo due to failure to coordinate Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line with ongoing flyover projects, sources said. The Dhaka Transport Coordination Board (DTCB) sat...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, May 16 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated on Saturday five development projects and laid the foundation stones of four others. The development projects are the newly-constructed Youth Training Centre at Shibtala in Chapainawa-bganj town, academic building of Birshreshtha...
In the 'GDP Growth Rate' graph, published in FE on May 15 on Page-1, the numbers of the growth rates should be read as 5.05 per cent instead of 6.71 per cent in FY'09; 5.57 per cent instead of 6.07...
Angry guardians have forced authorities of the Mohammadpur Preparatory School and College to take off duty all male employees after complaints of sexual harassment of a minor girl studying there, reports bdnews24.com. The institution's vice-principal Zeenatun Nesa has also been...
A delegation of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Shipping Ministry led by its Chairman Major (retd) Rafiqul Islam, Bir Uttam, visited the site of the under-construction Payra seaport, that will be the 3rd of the country, reports BSS. The other members...
As over a half of the population would be living in the urban areas in few decades, experts at a high-profile meeting suggested that an effective and appropriate policy should be farmed for planned, balanced and sustainable urbanisation, reports BSS....
Khairul Islam | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
Cellphone operators are reluctant to pay heed to the finance ministry's proposal of paying the principal amount of the SIM replacement tax, which insiders say could throw $630 million spectrum auction into uncertainty. The ministry had proposed that the defaulting...
FE Report | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
Business leaders and economists at a talk urged the government to boost investment, increase infrastructure expenditure, reduce cost of doing business and widen the tax net instead of raising rates in the coming budget to unlock stymied economy potential. "Six...
FE Report | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
Bank interest rates are already on the downturn and will fall further, said Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman as business leaders at a meet Saturday pleaded for immediate narrowing of rates spread. Sylhet Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI)...
FE Report | 2015-05-17 00:00:00
The rate of dividends recommended by some 32 listed companies for the year ended on December 31, 2014 has almost remained static over that of previous year. According to information of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), some of the companies recommended...
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