FE Report | 2015-01-13 00:00:00
The government has announced a four-year action plan including enactment of 'Cyber Security Act' and establishment of 10 additional software technology parks to develop the country's ICT sector. The ICT roadmap also includes ensuring hundred per cent mobile phone penetration,...
A border haat along the Indo-Bangla border will be inaugurated Tuesday, which is expected to expedite border trade benefiting people living on both sides of the border, reports UNB. The new border haat is located at Srinagar, Tripura, India and...
JICA launches website 'Bangland' Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched 'Bangland', a website dedicated to Japanese companies, entrepreneurs and their Bangladeshi counterparts who seek to develop sustainable business to solve various social development issues of Bangladesh under the activities of...
FE Report | 2015-01-13 00:00:00
Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran has said on Monday a good number of Indian companies are actively looking for investment in Bangladesh. "Now-a-days Indian companies, including some big ones, are looking for investment here. If some of this...
Yasir Wardad | 2015-01-13 00:00:00
Country's sea-fish catch has increased sharply in recent times thanks to a good weather in the Bay of Bengal and victory over maritime dispute with India and Myanmar that brought a vast area under Bangladesh's fishing net, officials said. The...
The export basket of the country has widened and also the non-conventional exports have risen during the first half of the current fiscal year (FY), reports bdnews24.com. As a result, Bangladesh export sector has grown between July and December. According...
Malaysian Minister for International Trade and Industry Mustapa Mohamed arrived in the city on Monday on a three-day visit looking for ways to expand trade ties between the two countries. The Malaysian minister will have talks with Commerce Minister Tofail...
Prices of flats in 'Uttara Apartment Project' undertaken by the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) will go up as tenders have been invited afresh for their construction. Neither Public Works Department (PWD) nor Rajuk, however, said anything about the extent of...
A daylong seminar titled 'Bangladesh and BIMSTEC: Way Forward' will be held in the city today (Tuesday), reports UNB. Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) will arrange the seminar at its auditorium. The Bay of Bengal Initiative for...
GANDHINAGAR, India, Jan 12 (Reuters): India's government defended itself on Monday against critics who accuse it of being too slow with reforms needed to reboot a lacklustre economy, and top officials told investors the country was already heading for faster...
BERLIN, Jan 12 (Reuters): Disagreements about food safety and farming are not likely to stand in the way of a free-trade agreement between the European Union and the United States, Germany's farm minister told Reuters on Monday. The two sides...
SEOUL, Jan 12 (Reuters): South Korean President Park Geun-hye was not assuming an interest rate cut as a sure thing when she talked about cooperation between policy authorities at a news conference on Monday, an aide to Park said. Park's...
MOSCOW, Jan 12 (AFP): Russia's central bank in 2014 sold $76.1 billion and 5.4 billion euros in attempts to support the ruble, statistics published Monday said, as the currency continued to fall. Last year, the ruble lost 41 per cent...
SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (AFP): China's auto sales exceeded 23 million vehicles last year, an industry group said Monday, but annual growth halved from 2013 as a weaker economy took its toll on the world's biggest car market. Sales rose 6.9...
TOKYO, Jan 12 (Reuters): Japanese Economics Minister Akira Amari said on Monday he expects real wages to trun positive in the fiscal year starting April as the economy recovers from nearly two decades of mild deflation. Wage growth is crucial...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2015-01-13 00:00:00
The government's First Track Project Monitoring Committee, headed by the Prime Minister, had a meeting to review the implementation of the six top priority projects involving $16 billion on January 7, 2014. Padma Multipurpose bridge, deep sea port at Sonadia,...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-01-13 00:00:00
The unexpected defeat of Sri Lanka's strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa in the presidential election last week to his former health minister Maithripala Sirisena, a relatively unknown political player, brought an abrupt end to an increasingly controlling presidency. It is abrupt because...
Frank Peters | 2015-01-13 00:00:00
Meet Rajowl Karim and Oli Ullah. Five years ago, they would have graduated with first-class honours from the Edmund Snowden Whistleblowers Academy… if it had existed! Rajowl and Oli are the two boys who brought to my attention the horrors...
That the country today observes the fourth anniversary of the enactment of the legislation banning corporal punishment in schools is indeed a cause for celebration. It could still be more heart-warming if there was a perceived change in the attitude...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-01-13 00:00:00
Venture capital as a source of funds to the new and potential industrial undertakings has become popular worldwide. In fact, many IT business firms like Google and Facebook could never have started their businesses had there been no fund support...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-01-13 00:00:00
Like many non-formal professionals in the country, the village doctors have traditionally been an integral part of our rural communities. To people living in the remote areas of the country, they are truly "a friend in need is a friend...
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