Muhammad Zamir | 2015-02-02 00:00:00
The unfolding events associated with the extreme forces of ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), Boko Haram and Taleban have been drawing the wrong interpretation of Islam for the last few years. The fundamentalist approaches of these groups...
The 10th International Plastic Fair 2015 in Dhaka has provided the government with an idea of the untapped potential of the plastic sector and the need to facilitate its faster growth. This is possibly why the industries minister announced the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-02-02 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) last week announced a corporate debt restructuring (CDR) policy that aims at extending help to big borrowers in distress. That such a policy would soon be announced was in the air for the past few months....
Md. Shahadat Hossain | 2015-02-02 00:00:00
The relationship between art and reality has been bothering philosophers since the times of ancient Greece. Ideas are real, while reality is the 'imitation of reality', the shadow of the idea. Art is also the imitation of reality, the shadow...
Ekushey book fair has begun with toned-down festivity this year and understandably so. February is a significant and memorable month for all of us. Our language martyrs laid down their lives in this month. The book fair actually commemorates the...
The ongoing political unrest is taking its toll on all businesses, small, medium or big. In the same way, students, farmers and others regardless of their class, status or profession, are passing through a hard time. Transport cost has gone...
At school we were taught that God is supreme and that he loves children. Regrettably, this message was conveyed to us during my school days, which I found very difficult to comprehend. Countless times I asked myself, if Allah loves...
Ahsan H. Mansur in the second of his three-part paper titled \'Foreign currency regulations and implications for private investment\' | 2015-02-02 00:00:00
The main reasons for the private sector to seek foreign loan is the interest rate differentials between foreign currency-denominated (international) borrowing and taka-denominated borrowing from domestic banks. Interest rates charged on foreign currency-denominated loans provided to the private sector are ...
KANO, Feb 1 (agencies): Boko Haram Islamist militants have launched a fresh assault on the strategically important Nigerian city of Maiduguri, eyewitnesses say. Gunfire was reported on the streets of the northern city after an attack that began in the...
KIEV, Feb 1 (AFP): At least 19 soldiers and civilians were killed in clashes across east Ukraine as fierce fighting raged Sunday between government forces and pro-Russian rebels following the collapse of ceasefire talks. Ukraine's military said that 13 soldiers...
RIYADH, Feb 1 (AFP): A US defence contractor said Sunday that two of its American employees came under fire in the latest attack against Westerners in Saudi Arabia. It was the second time in recent months that staff of the...
NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (AFP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China in May, the foreign minister said Sunday during her own three-day visit to Beijing. "Mr. Modi is going to come in May. I will give them dates...
QUETTA, Feb 1 (AFP): A rocket attack targeting a senior police officer and his family killed two police escorts in restive southwestern Pakistan, officials said Sunday. The incident happened Saturday evening when district police chief Asghar Ali Yusufzai was travelling...
HONG KONG, Feb 1 (AFP): Thousands of pro-democracy activists have returned to the streets of Hong Kong for their first big rally since mass protests last year. A large police presence was in force to deter demonstrators from taking over...
Tokyo, Feb 1 (AP): Japan condemned with outrage and horror on Sunday an online video that purported to show an Islamic State group militant beheading Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. The video posted on militant websites late Saturday Middle East time...
UN says violence in Iraq kills at least 1,375 in January BAGHDAD, Feb 1: The United Nations mission to Iraq says violence in the country amid the war against the extremist Islamic State group killed at least 1,375 people in...
FE Report | 2015-02-02 00:00:00
A top chamber leader Sunday urged Thai entrepreneurs to invest in Bangladesh banking on a welter of incentives Dhaka offers to foreign investors. Syed Nasim Manzur, president of Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Thai investors can tap the...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-02-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh becomes the world's 28th country producing biotech crops by introducing commercial production of 'Bt Brinjal' (eggplant) last year. International Service for Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), in its latest brief report on commercialisation of biotech crops, revealed the information....
Yasir Wardad | 2015-02-02 00:00:00
Political turmoil has hit exports and local trade of jute hard by 20-30 per cent in the last 26 days, with the sector bleeding an estimated Tk 5.1 billion, insiders said. According to businesses, August-March is the peak season for...
2,369 tonnes of aman rice procured in Chuadanga CHUADANGA, Feb 1: The ongoing aman rice procurement drive by the government in all the four upazilas of the district is going on satisfactorily. The four upazilas of the district are -...
FE Report | 2015-02-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) is looking for a new Director General (DG) as the tenure of the incumbent head of the institute, Dr Mustafa K Mujeri, will expire on March 31 next. The search committee has already made...
A delegation of the Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) arrived in the capital on Sunday to explore opportunities for enhancing regional trade and investment cooperation, reports UNB. Delegates from Georgia, India, Australia, Nepal, Hong Kong, Iran,...
FE Report | 2015-02-02 00:00:00
Three enterprises were awarded Saturday for their contribution to strengthening the business relations between Bangladesh and Japan, as the two countries seek to forge cooperation in yet greater perspectives. The Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JBCCI) gave the 1st...
SIRAJGANJ, Feb 1: The handloom industry in Sirajganj district has received a shattering blow due to the ongoing countrywide non-stop transport blockade and repeated hartals sponsored by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, reports UNB. The weavers of the district are counting...
The government launched Leveraging ICT (LICT)for Growth, Employment and Governance Project of Bangladesh Computer Council under the ICT Division in the capital Saturday night aiming at developing 30,000 IT professionals in the next three years. Chairman of University Grants Commission...
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