FE Report | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
Power outages have become rampant again with the advent of summer as technical glitches in power plants and gas crisis have been squeezing electricity generation. Ongoing irrigation season also has hiked the demand for electricity worsening the power supply situation,...
FE Report | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
There should be health insurance coverage for all to ensure better medicare within their affordability, officials and experts have said. They also emphasised the need for formulating health insurance policies. The speakers made the above observations at the concluding session...
FE Report | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
At least 360 Bangladeshi nationals have been evacuated from war-torn Yemen to Djibouti until Saturday. The government of Bangladesh plans to bring them to Cochin Port in Kerala of India from where they will return home by Biman's special flight....
BNP joint secretary general Mahbub Uddin Khokon on Saturday said they believed they would get back BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed alive soon, reports UNB. "After a meeting with Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner we've become a bit optimistic that Salahuddin...
FE Report | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
The ministry of education (MoE) sought some 15 per cent more allocation than estimated under the medium-term budgetary framework (MTBF) from the next fiscal year (FY) to meet expenditures of its different programmes, officials said. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid...
FE Report | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
Students, both in the rural and urban areas, should be offered equal educational opportunities to help them develop and go ahead, said Rokia A Rahman, a former adviser to the caretaker government. She underscored the need for all modern facilities...
RAJBARI, Apr 11 (UNB): Miscreants gang raped a girl holding her lover hostage at Shalmara village in Baliakandi Upazila Friday night. Shah Alam Shikder, son of Shahjahan Shikder of Bajitpur village in sadar Upazila of the district, said she along...
Free dental camp held at BU Bangladesh University (BU) and Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd jointly organised a free dental camp on the university campus in the city on Saturday. Registrar of the university Major Niaz Mohammad Khan (retd) inaugurated the programme....
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Comilla and Noakhali until 6:00 pm today (Sunday), reports UNB. Weather...
Speaker of Jatiya Sangsad and Chairperson of the executive committee of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury left Dhaka for Washington, USA, Friday night, reports BSS. She will attend the Global Parliamentary Conference on April 12-13 to be...
The BNP accused on Saturday the government of not allowing the party-blessed mayoral and councillor candidates of Dhaka city corporation elections to smoothly carry out their electioneering, reports UNB. "We want an equal chance to smoothly carry out the electioneering....
FE Report | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) Joint Director AKM Fazlul Haque and Deputy Director Mohiuddin Ahmed have been elected as President and General Secretary (GS) respectively of BCS (Statistical) Cadre Association for two years. Election to the biennial BCS (Statistical) Cadre...
Fifty three BNP-backed councilor candidates of Dhaka South and North city corporations' elections are facing more than 350 criminal cases, while only seven Awami League (AL)-blessed contestants face 12 cases as per the affidavits submitted to the Election Commission (EC)...
A delegation of pro-BNP lawyers at a meeting with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner on Saturday demanded that the law enforcers play a neutral role during the elections to two Dhaka city corporations, reports UNB. The lawyers, led by...
A new dimension has been added to electioneering after allocation of symbols among the contestants in the polls to Dhaka South, Dhaka North and Chittagong City Corporation polls, reports BSS. Campaigning for mayoral and councillor candidates in the polls to...
UNESCO slates BD blogger's murder The head of the United Nations (UN) agency mandated to defend press freedom has denounced the murder of Washiqur Rahman Babu, a Bangladesh-based blogger, and reiterated the call for local authorities to defend freedom of...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
The government has introduced an annual performance targets-oriented agreement with fourteen state-owned banks and financial institutions to make them accountable. On April 09, 2015, the secretary of the Banking Division under the ministry of finance caused signing of such an...
Md. Shariful Islam | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
South Asia as a region is fairly late to embrace the notion of regional economic integration which was highlighted in the later half of the 1980s. Notably, it took almost a decade after the establishment of the South Asian Association...
The country has a foreign exchange reserve of over $23 billion. The rise in reserve has been consistent in recent years, despite negative developments both on domestic and external fronts. The policymakers often tend to take credit for a stable...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
The government has, reportedly, decided to go aggressive in wooing the private entrepreneurs to invest in the economic zones (EZs) of the country. Of the 17 EZs approved, three will be developed as private economic zones and one each exclusively...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-04-12 00:00:00
Journalist-turned popular American writer Tom Wolfe felt disturbed at his nation's obsession with status. However, he has also not spared himself in this caustic observation. The author may have sought to conclude that this preoccupation finally leads to sheer futility....
Recently as many as 25 people died in a road accident in Faridpur. The witnesses said that the driver lost control over the bus and rammed into a roadside tree. This is not an isolated incident as every year hundreds...
The Election Commission has not so far been able to fulfill the expectations of the people. It has not been playing its due part in ensuring a level playing field for the upcoming city corporation elections. In all considerations, the...
The Latin phrase - vini, vidi, vici - means 'I came, I saw, I conquered'. The students of Quantum Cosmo School participated in the Independence Day parade for the first time this year. Their performance was outstanding and they won...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
It is indeed an irony in Bangladesh that nothing happens as per decision unless compelled to do it. Whatever reforms one sees today taking place in the field of readymade garment (RMG) industries with regard to compliance issues could have...
Shah Md Ahsan Habib | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
Inadequate financing has been considered as a critical bottleneck in the development of SMEs of all types. The SMEs face financing difficulties mainly because of the problems of asymmetric information, inadequate assets and absence of markets. In several instances, it...
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