FE Report | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
Speakers at a seminar stressed the need for an effective association for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector for its sustainable development. They said such an association of MSMEs and SMEs can play an important role in real development...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Nov 22: For the first time in Bangladesh the leading associations of the maritime sector and maritime bodies have joined hands in forming "The Maritime Forum". The 3rd meeting of the forum was held today at Western Marine's office....
A.Z.M. Anas | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
NEW YORK, Nov 21: Donors and private sector players have pledged $400 million to promote clean cooking at the Cookstoves Future Summit in the US. The Summit, organised by the UN-led Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, ended on Friday in...
WEAB holds experience sharing session on 'Financing MSME's in BD' Women Entrepreneur Association of Bangladesh (WEAB) has arranged a day-long programme to share the experience on 'Financing MSME's in Bangladesh' with APRACA-CENTRAB in the city recently. A statement said APRACA-CENTRAB,...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
The supportive measures taken a decade back as backward linkage facilities to boost growth of pharmaceuticals sector are yet to be implemented due to apathy of the government. The Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredients Park (API Park) and the National Control Laboratory...
Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA) has initiated a move to formulate an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Master Plan (EECMP) to improve the overall efficiency of energy use in the country. The official sources said the SREDA has already...
BEIJING, Nov 22 (Reuters): China cut interest rates unexpectedly on Friday, stepping up efforts to support the world's second-biggest economy as it heads towards its slowest expansion in nearly a quarter of a century, saddled under a mountain of debt....
YANGON, Nov 22 (Xinhua): Myanmar has sought cooperation with Austria for the development, operation and transfer of Deedoke Hydropower project in Mandalay region, official media reported Saturday. Myanmar Ministry of Electric Power and Austria-based ANDRITZ Hydro GmbH, a global supplier...
NEW DELHI, Nov 22 (AFP): India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley promised Friday to make progress during the upcoming parliamentary session on a string of economic reforms, including a national tax to create a single internal market. The right-wing government led...
ATHENS, Nov 22 (Reuters): Greece's government on Friday pushed ahead with plans for a near-balanced budget next year, ignoring objections from its international lenders who say Athens is set to miss its deficit forecast. The government and the European Union...
LONDON, Nov 22 (AFP): The Bank of England has opened a formal investigation into the possible manipulation of money-market auctions held at the start of the financial crisis and whether its officials were involved, the Financial Times reported on Saturday....
BRASILIA, Nov 22 (Reuters): Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will name banker Joaquim Levy as her new finance minister, three leading newspapers reported on Friday, signaling a shift toward more market-friendly policies that could breathe life into a stagnant economy. Levy's...
WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (Reuters): Boeing Co on Friday welcomed a decision by Japan to buy V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft that it builds together with Bell Helicopter, a unit of Textron Inc. "The Bell Boeing team is honored the Japanese Ministry...
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 22 (AFP): Zimbabwe's economy is on the mend as the worst is over, the country's finance minister said Friday in a bid to assure investors in South Africa that its neighbour was "not a basket case". "We are...
In a changed strategy, BNP has sketched out a plan to bring all the political parties-both left and right ones -- outside its 20-party alliance but highly critical of the coalition government, aiming to mount a greater pressure on it...
Awami League (AL) presidium member and Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, MP, said Saturday that the anti-Liberation axis is trying to distort country's history, reports BSS. "Conspiracy is continuing to distort the history. But the people, who...
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will be in the city after attending the 18th Saarc Summit to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal on November 26-27, reports UNB. Biswal will arrive here...
Two left leaning parties-Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) - Saturday vowed to resist the government's 'plot' to raise prices of gas and electricity at any cost, reports UNB. The two left parties held rallies and...
SYLHET, Nov 22 (UNB): Two cases were filed Saturday against 370 unidentified people in connection with the Thursday's Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) infighting at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) that left a BCL man dead. Pratibha Das, mother...
RAJBARI, Nov 22 (UNB): A vice chairman of Pangsha Upazila, who was injured in a gun attack at Kacharipara village in Pangsha Upazila Friday, died at Faridpur Medical College Hospital early Saturday. The victim was identified as Munshi Nader Hossain,...
PABNA, Nov 22 (BSS): Advocate Taslim Hasan Sumon and Md Shahjahan Mamun were elected as president and general secretary respectively of Pabna Poura Awami League (AL) at its triennial council held at the valiant freedom fighter Rafiqul Islam Bakul Poura...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Nov 22 (UNB): Nine Bangladeshis, who were detained by Indian Police, returned home Saturday through Sona Masjid border point in Shibganj Uapzila. Border Security Force (BSF) of India handed them over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after a flag...
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