WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) : US consumer sentiment unexpectedly fell in February from an 11-year high amid worries over slowing economic growth, suggesting a recent weakness in spending might last for a while. The ebb in sentiment came despite strong...
The government has taken some measures to ensure transparency in each step of the process of exporting manpower to Saudi Arabia so that the flow to the oil-rich country remains uninterrupted in future. The KSA suspended manpower import from Bangladesh...
FARIDPUR, Feb 14 (BSS): Overseas Employment and Expatriates Welfare Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain has said the present government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has planned expediting development at the grassroots to make Bangladesh a middle income country within a...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
Freedom is a word that is highly deserving and highly cherishable. Freedom is of different kinds (political, economic, religious and etc.). Like political freedom, economic freedom is very important in a state or a society. It refers to freedom of...
Musawer Ahmad Saqif | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
Twenty three years into the Maastricht Treaty, the European Union now faces its most critical challenge. The Treaty (formally, the Treaty on European Union or TEU) undertaken to integrate Europe was signed on February 7, 1992 by the members of...
Statistics are daunting. Nearly 23,000 tax-related cases involving revenues worth Tk. 258 billion (25800 crore) are now awaiting disposal in different courts, including the higher ones, of the country. Many cases are decades-old since the litigation process is slow, cumbersome...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
The government is still unwilling to consider any reduction in the prices of petroleum products in the domestic market, although their prices slumped to a four-year-low in the international market. However, there is a probability that it might consider a...
A full house crowd in excess of 90,000 is expected at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) to see the old enemies start their World Cup campaigns today (Saturday) at 9.30 am (BD time). Most will be expecting a Valentine's Day...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Feb 13 (AFP): Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has demanded an immediate end to the losing habit that has infected his side in the lead up to Saturday's World Cup opener against New Zealand in Christchurch. The...
India will take on Pakistan in their opening encounter of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide tomorrow (Sunday) at 9.30am (BD time). This match of the tournament will be the sixth encounter between the...
Despite their undoubted ability to influence a match, these players fly into this year's Cricket World Cup slightly under the radar. Ahmed Shehzad (Pakistan) If there's one lesser-light of the Pakistan batting line-up who won't mind batting in the far-flung...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-02-14 00:00:00
Investment involves precious money which is hard-earned. Investors are intelligent enough to make their choices about investing their money. There is hardly any good reason why foreign investors will be eager for investing in Bangladesh when local investors are shy...
Sheikh Rahman | 2015-02-14 00:00:00
India, China and the United States are engaged in a power game that puts the smaller South Asian nations in a quandary. Relations of the Asian powers India and China with Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will be impacted by...
At a time when things are far from rosy on the manpower export front, reopening of workers' temporary migration to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is more than just refreshing. After the seven year-long embargo on export of manpower...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-02-14 00:00:00
Although the agricultural sector provides one-fifths of GDP and employs roughly two-thirds of the country's workforce, there has been very little attempt to improve agricultural statistics. These are alleged to be of dubious quality leading to confusing and misleading policy...
S A Mansoor | 2015-02-14 00:00:00
For any enterprise, small or big, the concept of MAP (Managing All Persons) is crucially important. The most important asset and most valuable resource for any enterprise is its manpower, and manning and motivating them diligently is the key to...
Electricity has become an indispensable component of modern life. In fact, after air and water, electricity is the only man made resource that is essentially needed to lead a normal life. Apart from Eskimos and a handful of backward tribes...
Obesity in our children is rising, particularly among those who are living in city areas. If children are lean and thin, many parents are found worried about their child becoming 'skinny'. They obviously want them to be more robust, which...
The World Cup cricket is about to take off and the cricket-loving world is bubbling with enthusiasm for the top players of the game to display their talents on the field. Bangladesh played a warm-up match against Pakistan and narrowly...
A dynamic, sustainable, influential and truly representative government can deliver good governance for its citizens. Improving governance in a country is not a matter of choice - it is a necessity for sustainable development. It is the foundation upon which...
Ayan Gupta | 2015-02-14 00:00:00
What makes a great salesperson? Why do "some" salespeople lie to their clients? Does creativity matters while someone is in the salesman profession? These questions are often being asked. Like most jobs, there is a certain set of criteria that...
At a time when the closely held motto is self preservation for the majority of the people and for a few others to take life indiscriminately, a woman named Fahi Khatun from Godagari, Rajshahi has 'foolishly' given up her life...
Iftu Ahmed | 2015-02-14 00:00:00
Every February 14, the Christian World around the globe exchange candies, cards, flowers and other gifts with loved ones in honour of Saint Valentine. The origins of Valentine's Day are shrouded and to the conservatives is a cultural pollution from...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-02-14 00:00:00
Critics of Huntington's ideas often extend their criticisms to traditional cultures and internal reformers who wish to modernise without adopting the values and attitudes of Western culture. These critics sometimes claim that to modernise is necessarily to become Westernised to...
Nazir Ahmed | 2015-02-14 00:00:00
Britain, along with other Western countries, is often described as a pluralist state in which people enjoy freedom of expression, assembly, movement and religion. Freedom in the West operates within a tolerant context characterised by a great philosopher Voltaire who...
Leading poets of the country attended a function titled 'Shishire Kabitar Spondon' organised by Gashful, a media house recently on the premises of Sanskriti Bikash Kendro at Paribagh in the city. Presided over by Mahbub Talukdar, the function began with...
John S Deyell | 2015-02-14 00:00:00
It was recently my pleasure to tour the Bangladesh Bank's new Taka Museum, at the invitation of my old colleague, Dr Md Rezaul Karim, now a curator at that facility. I was warmly welcomed by Mr Parimal Chandra Chakraborty, Deputy...
PESHAWAR, Feb 13 (agencies): Taliban militants have attacked worshippers at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar with guns and grenades, killing at least 19. Police killed one of the militants in a gunfight around the mosque, in...
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