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Cash-strapped SoBs to get Tk 34b recapitalisation

Syful Islam | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

Five cash-strapped banks are likely to get nearly Tk 34 billion from the government coffer to meet their capital shortfall, officials said. The badly-off state-owned banks (SoBs) are reportedly experiencing difficulties in running their day-to-day operation and foreign trade properly...

NBFIs barred from waiving principal amount of loans

Siddique Islam | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

The central bank has issued a fresh guideline imposing restriction on waiving the principal amount of loans by the non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs), officials said. Under the guidelines, the NBFIs are not allowed to waive the principal amount of loans...

Photo: Jalil, owner of a bioscope

2015-04-09 00:00:00

Prayer Timings

2015-04-09 00:00:00

4 killed in Habiganj accident

2015-04-09 00:00:00

HABIGANJ, Apr 8 : At least four people, including a woman and a child, were killed as a tractor collided head-on with a human hauler (locally known as easy-bike) at Umednagar on the Habiganj-Nabiganj Road in Sadar upazila on Wednesday...

35th BCS preli test results published

2015-04-09 00:00:00

The results of the preliminary test of 35th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations were published Wednesday with 20,391 candidates coming out successful. 244,107 candidates took part in the test held on March 6 simultaneously in Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal,...

Detailed DSE Trading

2015-04-09 00:00:00

Electricity import versus coal mining

Mushfiqur Rahman | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

Newspaper reports have it that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit the Energy and Mineral Resources Division today (April 09, 2015). She is expected to take stock of the country's energy situation including the existing power and energy development plans...

The nuclear reality in the world we live in

K.B. Ahmed | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

Midnight April 01, US-led five plus one delegation found an agreement with Iran to commit to a framework of  regime to oversee its nuclear development activities and to delay a possible production of weapon-grade plutonium without scarping any part of...

Bumper harvest to curb rice import

2015-04-09 00:00:00

Import of foodgrains, especially rice, amid successive good harvests, poses the all-important question of how thoughtful the government is about allowing, albeit encouraging, it. Around nine hundred thousand tonnes of rice were imported in little over eight months during July...

Trade-off in agriculture

Abdul Bayes | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

The food basket for a typical Bangladeshi household consists of rice, wheat, lentil, potato, vegetables, spices, fish, meat, etc. Four-fifths of calorie and protein come from these items. Again, only rice and wheat together supply 74 and 57 per cent...

Launch disaster: Will it ever stop?

Saleh Akram | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

It seems to be an endless trail. It is the same story all over again rewritten with blood and tears. Until recently, the Chandpur estuary of Meghna river was considered as the most vulnerable point for launch accidents due to...

Bangladesh-Pakistan cricket series: Bubbling enthusiasm and excitement

2015-04-09 00:00:00

Bangladesh-Pakistan cricket series gets underway on April 15. Two teams will play three ODIs, one T20 and two Tests with each other. There is a lot of enthusiasm about the series - with the three-match One-Day series generating highest excitement....

Artificial price hike should be prevented in Ramadan

2015-04-09 00:00:00

The holy month of Ramadan is only three months away and every year we find that the prices of essential commodities go up before the Ramadan causing immense sufferings to the common people. The government should take early precautions so...

Cloud of unrest moving away from politics

2015-04-09 00:00:00

Like all peace-loving citizens of Bangladesh, I am indeed delighted to see that the political situation of the country has taken a turn towards the better. This has happened particularly in view of the upcoming city corporation elections. After three...

India\\\'s economy: New Foreign Trade Policy raises hopes

B K Mukhopadhyay | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

How an economy performs overseas is always a point to see - it is interesting and at the same time important. It is interesting because over time India's economy has been able to expand the range (exports items). It is...

Enabling environment for green growth

Shahabuddin Rajon | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

Green growth will be possible, only if policy and market conditions are conducive and stakeholders are confident and equipped to make the changes required. Unfortunately, such conditions are not always applicable and the risk is that green growth is pursued...

Pharmacist: A noble healthcare professional

Paromita Islam | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

Being a health care provider brings an added responsibility to your shoulder that every pharmacist would realise. Invention of new drug molecules, advanced drug delivery systems, ensuring quality medications to a patient, all these magnanimous duties primarily belong to pharmacists...

Balancing work & life: Corporate way

Ahmed Shafquat Noor | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

So as it is read: work-life balance, there is no confusion about what is required from a work place. The part that says "life" brings many questions. Does life mean just to have enough time to go home and arrange...

Getting started as a copywriter

Kazi Shoyeb Imteaz | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

You might be a fresh graduate looking for a new job, or you have been thinking of switching your old one. Whatever your circumstances, entering into a new industry is a challenge, especially during current political and economic condition. In...

Acing the GMAT

asif.iba.ju@gmail.com | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

You have finally decided that IBA of Dhaka University is not enough for you and you are going to Harvard for your MBA. But when you started your application for Harvard, you get stuck on a single word: GMAT! Yes,...

Digitisation effective tool to accelerate national uplift, say speakers

2015-04-09 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Apr 8 (BSS): The digitisation process has already become an effective tool to accelerate national uplift benefiting every citizen and pushing Bangladesh towards a middle income nation, speakers said here on Tuesday afternoon. They were addressing launching ceremony of...

CVDO providing digital services in Jhenidah

Our Correspondent | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

JHENIDAH, Apr 8: Comprehensive Village Development Program (CVDP), one of the model programmes of RDA, Bogra, under the Ministry of LGRD&C, is providing digital services in rural areas, especially to the marginal farmers of 75 villages under Sadar upazila in...

One killed, four injured in road accident

2015-04-09 00:00:00

KHULNA, Apr 8 (BSS): One person was killed and four others injured in a collision between a truck and a jeep in Joyarer Beel area under Dumuria upazila in the district last night. The deceased Kabir Hossain Kazi, was a...

\\\'ICT creates enormous prospect for youths in earning through outsourcing\\\'

2015-04-09 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Apr 8 (BSS): The digitised information and communication technology (ICT) have created enormous opportunity for youths and young generations in earning huge foreign exchange through outsourcing to accelerate national uplift. State Minister for Post Telecommunications & Information Technology Zunaid...

RU examinees suffering from power outage

RU Correspondent | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Apr 8: The residential students of Shaheed Sohrawardi and Shaheed Habibur Rahman hall, at Rajshahi University (RU) have been living without electricity since Saturday evening after a fierce nor'wester that wrecked power supply lines in the university area....

10 saw mills sealed off in Mongla area

Our Correspondent | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

KHULNA, Apr 8: About ten saw mills have been closed and sealed off by the Forest Department and Coast Guard at Mongla area of Tuesday on charge of illegal establishment of mills and sawing of Sundari timber in the mills....

Two minor cousins drown in Kushtia

2015-04-09 00:00:00

KUSHITA, Apr 8 (UNB): Two minor cousins drowned in a waterbody at Kalidaspur village in Daulatpur upazila on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Lamia, 4, daughter of Idris Ali and Genius, 5, son of Idris's brother Rafiqul Islam of...

Cultivation of sweet pumpkin reducing poverty in Nilphamari

Our Correspondent | 2015-04-09 00:00:00

NILPHAMARI, Apr 8: A bumper production of sweet pumpkin has been achieved in the shoal areas of Nilphamari district particularly in Dimla and Jaldhaka Upazila. The hardcore poor people living there have succeeded in doing so. Cultivation of the vegetable...

Social resistance to end violence stressed

2015-04-09 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Apr 8 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion in Rajshahi city have unequivocally called for forging social resistance against all sorts of violence so that the country can go forward successfully. They termed the violence and anarchic and subversive activities...