M. Aminul Islam Akanda | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The price of fuel oil is in a free fall in the international market after four years of stability. Brent crude oil came below $60 a barrel in December, 2014, from $115 in June 2014. This large fall is not...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Hartal at the beginning of the year does not augur well for the economy. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has indicated the prospect of high inflation. Investment is already in jeopardy because of high interest rates. Banks have a lot of...
Participating in a function held in Dhaka early this week, a government leader and also experts laid emphasis on the important aspect - empowerment through acquisition of need-based skills - of the country's education system. All the speakers found the...
Md Abdul Halim | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The Pay and Service Commission has recommended an increase in salary of public servants by 100 per cent on an average. Its full implementation would raise the government spending on salary and allowance by 63.7 per cent. According to the...
A T M Haidar Khan | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The outbreak of Ebola epidemic in the Western African countries causes death, health crisis, decline in living standard pushing those countries towards a handicapped economic system.The devastating impact of Ebola on the socio-economic condition has spread to six countries (Guinea,...
I was shocked to know about the law enforcing agency members picking up the chairman of ETV, Abdus Salam in the middle of the night and indeed it is going to create a fear in the media that will think...
We, the common people, cannot but be worried about our future, as day by day political uncertainty is looming large. Hartal, blockade and continuous political unrest are becoming routine. The last national election is costing us dearly and it has...
Money laundering has taken a different form now with a new method, thanks to mobile phone banking. Today's criminals have come up with this new method of transferring illegal funds, at the speed of light. The option was introduced for...
The lower half of the front page of a local English daily on 3rd January was about violence and physical conflicts related to politics of Bangladesh. It depicted a partial picture of the politicians and their gangs of 'activists' who...
Saleh Akram | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The RMG sector of Bangladesh has set itself an export target of $50 billions by 2021. The target appears slightly ambitious and quite a few people are sceptical about its attainability. In the backdrop of pronounced scepticism of some quarters,...
Chowdhury Shahed Akbar | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The Banking sector of Bangladesh is trapped in a gridlock of non-performing loans (NPL) so much so that NPL accounts for 11.60 percent of the total volume of classified loans. Bangladesh Bank reports that the volume of classified loans that...
Strongly denouncing the detention of her party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia alleged Tuesday that the government has been on an arrest spree across the country, reports UNB. In a statement, she said, "After...
Awami League presidium member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said Tuesday democracy is not meant for those who passed obnoxious remarks against Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Liberation War, reports BSS. "Democracy...
Some 250 pro-20-party lawyers, including Bar Council vice chairman and BNP chairperson's adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain, have been sued on charges of obstructing law and attacking the car of Justice Farid Ahmed on the High Court (HC) premises Monday, reports...
NARAYANGANJ, Jan 6 (UNB) - At least 10 BNP leaders and activists, including its district unit president Taimur Alam Khandaker, were injured in a clash with police on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said local leaders and activists of BNP, led by...
Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif, MP, said Tuesday people of the country have outright rejected the blockade programme of BNP, report agencies. "Why the BNP chief called the programme as leaders and activists of her party too...
CHITTAGONG, Jan 6 (agencies): Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) filed two cases Monday night against nearly 700 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat including city BNP president and General secretary (GS) in connection with violence unleashed by BNP-Jammat activists on January 5....
THAKURGOAN, Jan 6 (UNB): Local BNP called a 24-hour hartal from 5pm Tuesday in the district protesting the arrest of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. District unit BNP general secretary Taimur Rahman confirmed this while talking to...
RANGPUR, Jan 6 (UNB): Local BNP called a daylong hartal in eight districts under Rangpur division for Wednesday protesting the arrest of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. Asadul Habib Dulu, organizing secretary of Rangpur division unit BNP,...
A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) Tuesday seeking its direction to media not to publish, broadcast or air the statements of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, now living in London, report agencies. Nasrin Siddiqa Leena, a...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The foreign missions have come under government's close watch aiming to expedite and complete the Machine Readable Passports (MRP) to Bangladeshi expatriates before the global deadline expires, officials said. Under the move, a taskforce of the ministry of foreign affairs...
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking head teachers and governing bodies of 20 schools in the city to return the extra fees they had taken from Secondary School Certificate (SSC) candidates, reports UNB. A HC bench comprising...
FE Report | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The Jatiya Sangsad Standing Committee on Defence Ministry on Tuesday suggested an increase in the number of students in cadet colleges along with maintaining the standard of education in the institutions. The meeting also recommended the Bangladesh Navy to continue...
FE Report | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Tuesday quizzed four officials of Bangladesh Krishi Bank in connection with the embezzlement of Tk 3 billion from the bank. ACC deputy director and investigation officer Selina Akhter questioned them for three hours from 10...
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