Md Muslim Reza | 2015-01-11 00:00:00
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for a greater share of industries in Bangladesh. These have been playing the lead role in creating entrepreneurship as well as generating jobs. As large businesses need huge amounts of capital and professional skills...
The government reopened the Shela route on last Wednesday after 26 days of spill of 0.36 million litres of furnace oil that spread across the entire length of the river and into the sea. A local daily said that at...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
If the historical background of the Adinath Temple at Maheshkhali has any validity, the 362.2-sq km island derives its name from God Mahadev whose other name is Mahesh. Maheshkhali, according to the myth, comes from Mahesh. In the booklet available...
F R Chowdhury | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Indonesia was a Dutch colony. During the World War II Holland itself was occupied by the Germans. President Sukarno (also written as (Soekarno) made the proclamation of independence of Indonesia on August 17, 1945. Holland eventually recognised Indonesia as an...
S A Mansoor | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Do you know that the common ant has some very uncommon capabilities? Possibly it is because ants have been there on our Earth, from more than a hundred million years back when mankind was non-existent! Our original predecessors that we...
Zeenat Khan | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
It is not easy to write a tribute for a public figure of significant importance. There are many attributes to choose from. While writing a tribute one faces a dilemma - as to which parts of the life of the...
M Zahangir Kabir | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Today, news and media in general play a very important role for every single one of us. In fact, it is the media that defines much of how we perceive the world around us. Without news and media groups, we...
The ministry of commerce, as reported by the FE on Monday, has taken a pre-emptive step to examine why prices of rice have, of late, recorded a rise in domestic markets. Most private millers, who have so long survived on...
Wasi Ahmed | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Very little is in sight on the manpower export front to inspire hope. The ups and downs in inward remittance appear as regular news stories in the print media, obviously because of its very high stake in the economy since...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Every farthing development partners give to different non-government organisations (NGOs) or any government has to be accounted for since the money belongs to tax-payers there. The fund-givers have to explain to them how their money is being used in foreign...
After 43 years of independence we are yet to achieve a satisfactory literacy rate which is indeed one of our major drawbacks. Education can solve many of our socio-economic problems like, poverty, corruption, lack of good governance, malnutrition etc. Education...
The whole nation was glued to television to watch the rescue operation of Jihad, a three and a half year old boy, who fell into an abandoned water pipe of a deep tube well and died. Unfortunately this is a...
Since our independence, our government has been emphasising on educating the people. Unique and befitting steps have been taken accordingly by successive governments. Now, we have set an example by distributing 326 million books among the students starting from class...
Kazi Nurmohammad Hossainul Haque | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Over the last few months, there has been increasing public discourse about two strategic documents. One is global with national implications - the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the post-2015 framework that will replace the much-celebrated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)....
BK Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
High-quality global business requires investment - investment in skill redevelopment and capacity bolstering, among others. In today's unprecedented talent crunch, the services industry in particular is grappling with the problem of developing leadership, talent, risk awareness and, of course, the...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Samson H Chowdhury will always be remembered for his hard work, dedication and research for excellence in entrepreneurship. A self-made man, he should be the role model for those entrepreneurs who aspire to attain innovation, leadership and perseverance not only...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh is one of the most potential least developed countries (LDC) with its total GDP (gross domestic product) hovering around US$ 140 billions. GDP growth rate per year was about 5.5 - 6.5 per cent during the last decade. Contribution...
COLOMBO, Jan 9 (agencies): Maithripala Sirisena will be sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president Friday after the strongman incumbent conceded defeat in a bitterly fought election, brought down by charges of corruption and growing authoritarianism. A top aide to...
BEIJING, Jan 9 (AFP): China on Friday downplayed the impact of Sri Lanka's presidential election upset, dismissing suggestions that the stunning win by Maithripala Sirisena could shake up Beijing's plans in the Indian Ocean. Sirisena on Thursday ousted longtime president...
KARACHI, Jan 9 (AFP): Pakistani police on Friday said they had shot dead four regional Al-Qaeda militants including a senior leader in an early morning encounter in the port city of Karachi. The leader, named as "Sajjad"-also known as Kargil-was...
PARIS, Jan 9 (agencies): French police have surrounded a building in a northern town where two Islamists suspected of the Charlie Hebdo massacre have taken a hostage. Holed up in a small printing business in Dammartin-en-Goele, 35km (22 miles) from...
BANGKOK, Jan 9 (AFP):- Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra launched a defiant defence Friday at the first hearing of impeachment proceedings that could see her banned from politics for five years and deepen the country's bitter divisions. Yingluck, Thailand's...
DENMARK, (Reuters): Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered Muslims by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad 10 years ago, will not republish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons due to security concerns, the only major Danish newspaper not to do so. "It shows that...
Kerry to meet Zarif in Geneva on January 14 TEHRAN, Jan 9: US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif next week in Geneva ahead of a fresh round of nuclear talks, an Iranian...
Syful Islam | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Piracy and armed robbery along Bangladesh's coasts, especially near sea and river ports, have doubled, raising the number of incidents to 11 in 2014 from six in 2013, officials said. The Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery...
Khairul Islam | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has backtracked from its earlier decision to cancel licences of two international gateway (IGW) operators -- Ratul Telecom and Kay Telecom -- over the payment they owe the regulator, officials said. "We've taken the...
FE Report Prices of lentil climbed by 16-18 per cent in the last one week in the city's kitchen markets, with traders attributing the hike to higher import costs. They said prices of a few varieties of indigenous fish increased...
Monira Munni | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
Formulation of rules to implement the amended labour law is getting delayed, following disagreements between the representatives of owners and workers over a number of issues relating to definition and outsourcing of workers, and their share in companies' profit, sources...
Some 300 factories in the three designated industrial areas in the capital and Gazipur have long been running without Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs), causing serious environmental pollution. The three industrial areas-Hazaribagh Tannery area, Shyampur-Kadamtoli Industrial area in the capital and...
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