Yasir Wardad | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
The ongoing blockade which started from January 6 last has affected the operation of nearly 80 per cent of rice mills during the peak Aman season. Meanwhile, the city traders said the prices of rice have already recorded some rise...
FE Report | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
The 12th day of the prolonged blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-Party Alliance, passed off Saturday amid arson attacks, blasts and arrests in the capital and elsewhere across the country, with no signs of a thaw in sight over the...
FE Report | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith Saturday said the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have lost the spirit of volunteerism in their activities and become the mere providers of 'NGO service'. "In our country, historically, the NGOs had been involved in voluntary services. But...
Newly-appointed Chief Justice of Bangladesh Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha took oath on Saturday, reports BSS. President Abdul Hamid administered the oath to Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, known as SK Sinha, at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban at 11.05 am. Justice...
The fifth session of the 10th parliament will begin on January 19 (Monday) at 4 pm. President Md. Abdul Hamid has convened the session of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) under the Article 72(1) of the Constitution, Parliament Secretariat sources said...
Petroleum supply across the country, particularly in northern and southern districts, is being severely disrupted due to the 'ongoing blockade'. President of Bangladesh Petrol Pump Owners Association (BPPOA) Nazmul Haque informed that most of the districts in northern and southern...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Jan 17: Members of Rapid Action Battalion seized 33.7 kilograms of gunpowder from the Jaharpur border point in Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila on Saturday in an abandoned condition. No one was arrested in this connection. The seized gunpowder was sent...
NEW YORK, Jan 16 (AFP): Big US banks have gotten earnings season off to a bumpy start with a spate of reports that missed expectations and highlighted growing unease about the economy. In the last two days, JPMorgan Chase, Bank...
COX'S BAZAR, Jan 16 (UNB): Four people, including a bride-to-be and her mother, were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus at Baroitali on the Cox's Bazar-Chittagong highway in Chakaria upazila on...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
The best time for sight-seeing in Bangladesh is undoubtedly the months of November, December and January. For family outing, though, November is ruled out for the simple reason that children have to sit for their annual examinations. Even such exams...
Md Anowar Habib Kazal | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
Foreign friends had contributed a lot and extended their helping hands of cooperation in different ways and played a vital role in our great Liberation War in 1971. Among them, some Japanese friends took part directly and indirectly in our...
Masum Billah | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
Maithripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka took oath of office hours after Mahinda Rajapaksa, very powerful with one decade in office, conceded defeat in the 8 January, 2015, presidential elections. US President Barack Obama has praised Sri Lanka's successful and peaceful...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
During the Mughal era, the Zamindars in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa were functionaries who merely had the right to collect revenue on behalf of the emperor and his representative or ‘Diwan’. When the East India Company was awarded the ‘Diwani’...
Zeenat Khan | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
Women and shopping go hand in hand: this sounds like a cliché. Is this statement a myth, or does it connote an actual reality of today's global, urban culture? A 2006 study found that compulsive buying is a very real...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
The Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, protects Bangladesh, particularly its south-western region, from various natural calamities. The mangrove plays a very important role in the economy of the south-western region. It is rich in flora and fauna. There are...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
While Asia continues to set its pace as the world's fastest growing region, some Asian middle-income countries (MICs) are showing signs of economic slowdown and face stiff competition from lower-cost economies. The implications of this growth slowdown in MICs are...
Against the backdrop of the country's sluggish investment for most part of 2014, a sudden rise in import of capital machinery in the later period of the year has caused eyebrows to raise. The trend appears a trifle dubious as...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
The Bay of Bengal is a nature's gift to 116 million people of Bangladesh. The socio-economic lifeline of the country is inseparably linked to the Bay which provides passage to 95 per cent of its trades and offers livelihood to...
Md Saifullah Azad | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
Islamic banking during the last four decades has witnessed considerable progress on the global front. The industry grew at double digits last year despite global economic uncertainties and market volatility. The relative resilience of these Islamic banks during the recent...
Bangladesh has been importing a sizable quantity of garlic from outside to meet its domestic demand for the last few decades. The volume of locally produced garlic is very small. In a television programme it was shown that in Ohio...
The World Cup Cricket is only three weeks away and everyone is waiting impatiently for this mega event to commence. Cricket is now the most popular game in our country as our national team tasted sweet success recently. Even a...
The common people are now a depressed lot and have no clue about which way the country is heading to. Howsoever hard the ruling party may claim, the situation is fast going out of control and the ongoing political programme...
Md Shahadat Hossain FCA | 2015-01-17 00:00:00
According to the latest available information as of September 30, 2014 the amount of classified loans with all banks and financial institutions in the country reached more than Tk 570 billion (57,000 crore) or 11.60 per cent of the total...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 16 (BSS): Prospect for intercropping mulberry trees with some other vegetables and spices is very bright to boost additional income from the same land together with silk cocoon production throughout the country, scientists and researchers concerned here said....
SINGAPORE, Jan 16 (AFP): Oil prices rebounded in Asia Friday after plunging in the previous session in reaction to news that the OPEC cartel had overproduced in December, while it also cut its global demand outlook. US benchmark West Texas...
SINGAPORE, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Gold traded near its highest level in four months on Friday and looked set to post its best week in ten months, as investors sought safety from market volatility after Switzerland unexpectedly scrapped a cap...
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures fell to their lowest in over a week on Friday as volatile crude oil prices and lacklustre export demand dampened buying interest in the tropical oil, dragging the contract to its...
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