Shamsul Huda | 2015-03-15 00:00:00
The government hospitals are unable to purchase the required modern drugs from the private parties as 70 per cent of their allocated money is spent for a limited number of essential medicines from the state-owned Essential Drugs Company Limited (EDCL)....
Ruling out again the possibility of any dialogue with Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday the best option for the BNP chief to surrender to court, report agencies. "What's the dialogue with her? What dialogue with...
FE Report | 2015-03-15 00:00:00
The BNP-led alliance called a fresh spell of 72-hour nationwide hartal from this (Sunday) morning while a prolonged non-stop blockade is hitting hard normal life and business. BNP Joint Secretary-General Barkatullah Bulu made the announcement of general strike in a...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque said on Saturday BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia would be arrested as soon as the arrest warrant to that end reaches the relevant police station, reports UNB. "The warrant to arrest Khaleda Zia...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-03-15 00:00:00
The government's project evaluation body IMED has detected irregularities and shoddy work in a Tk 3.16 billion sanitation and water supply project of the Local Government Division (LGD), officials said Saturday. The Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) under the...
FE Report | 2015-03-15 00:00:00
Although the concept of district budget is a good tool to ensure local development, it is yet to deliver its desired outcome. Discussants at a pre-budget dialogue, organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in Tangail district town, made...
Though there is no alternative to modernizing libraries and laboratories for ensuring quality higher education, the country's private universities cut their spending on the section in 2013, reports UNB. According to the recently-published University Grants Commission (UGC) Annual Report 2013,...
Claiming they were incurring losses due the ongoing hartal and blockade, meat sellers in the city on Saturday demanded withdrawal of the action programmes, reports UNB. The demand was made at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU)....
Ferdaus Ara Begum | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
Tea ranks as the most popular beverage in the world. A total of 4.78 million metric tonnes of tea were produced in 58 major tea-growing countries in 2012. India, China, Sri Lanka and Kenya are the major producers of tea...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The question that has been uppermost in the minds of the people since the recent calls from the UN/the US/and the EU to end the spate of dangerous violence that has gripped the Bangladesh nation has been about India's role....
Reports on expansion of business and relocation of factories from top Asian manufacturing hubs such as Japan and China have been in the air for sometime. Despite the ongoing political unrest hindering flow of businesses, it would be totally unwise...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The Gulf countries have of late opened up its vast labour markets for women workers from Bangladesh. The Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) has already fixed schedules for their online division-wise registration. On the opening day, the response...
Mohammad Zonaed Emran | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
We are living in a society where stress and anxiety are part and parcel of our lives and which diminish our potentialities. So life is now more challenging and complicated than the immediate past era. Meditation may be a panacea...
It was shocking to learn about the ruling party student wing's attack on journalists in Chittagong. Six journalists were injured and it happened in presence of the Road Transport Minster. It depicted a sad picture about the state of the...
The whole country is going through a phase of insecurity and fear costing us, among other things, the all important driver of economic growth, investment. Even the local investors are hesitant to invest and pursuing a 'wait and see' policy....
Bangladesh has a great potential to earn foreign exchange through freelancing and the government here has an important role to play. The government should open educational institutes for freelancers which will provide them with ample support. Bangladesh has a large...
M S Siddiqui | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
Tourists, business leaders, would-be immigrants and consumers make their decisions everyday to travel, invest or live in a country of their choice. They are influenced by the brand value of the country. The brand value denotes its name, fame and...
Md. Nurul Islam Sohel | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
Brand loyalty is earned by meeting and exceeding expectations. The lesser the customer's expectation is, the easier it is for a seller to meet or surpass the target. Today the nearly perfect information age has opened the eyes of the...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
So, the 20-party alliance -better say the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) - relaxed its hartal for 12 hours on Tuesday. The reason why it granted the nation this gracious reprieve is to celebrate the victory of the Bangladesh cricket team...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The death of Vinod Mehta, one of the greatest Indian editors, in Delhi on Sunday last, has come to me as a bolt from the blue, not because he, being a mortal being, was not to die but because all...
Seheli Chamon Muna | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
This is my story. It is the story of a simple girl with lofty dreams. A girl who was not born under any lucky star or with silver-spoon in her mouth. But one thing I was certainly born with, that...
Shahabuddin Rajon | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
There is an on-going global economic shift in power from West to East. Peter Temin, currently a Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT and former head of the Economics Department, in his excellent paper "Economic History and Economic Development" has claimed...
Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
China's rise can be seen as a quintessentially political process. Through the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) has sought to shore up its legitimacy after the Cultural Revolution irreversibly changed the nation and caused three crises of ideological belief,...
Babul Barman | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The bearish spell continued in the stock market for the fourth week that ended Thursday as investors were in selling binge amid the deepening political turmoil in the country. "The prolonged political strife kept the investors worried and they went...
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