The appeal of 12 rights-based organisations to the government for price support to agriculture, building food stocks and ensuring subsidised prices of farm inputs deserves immediate attention. In a news conference in Dhaka early this week, they also pleaded for...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-08-09 00:00:00
The communications minister the other day found the south-eastern port city of Chittagong - the commercial capital of Bangladesh - unliveable as he saw in his own eyes the deplorable condition of roads and other utilities there. Last year too,...
Ahmed Shamim Ansary (Sumon) | 2014-08-09 00:00:00
Most of the commuters in Dhaka face an acute shortage of public transports. The commuters, mainly office-goers having no staff buses of their own, are the worst sufferers, when they head for office in the morning. After the office hours...
A write-up on the above subject published in the Financial Express on August 2 last should be seriously considered by our relevant authorities. What the writer wrote about Seoul is also practised in Bangkok where traffic is also quite heavy....
Much has been talked about bus drivers and truck drivers but not enough about leguna drivers who are not any less dangerous or reckless. Compared to drivers of other motorised vehicles, leguna drivers tend to be much younger, more reckless...
It is good to know that many foreign entrepreneurs are keen to invest in the energy sector in Bangladesh. Gradually our economy is emerging and soon it will be bigger and for that we need to increase our capacity to...
Visiting Indian Hockey team won the three-match friendly series 2-0 with a match to spare beating Bangladesh by 5-1 goal in the 2nd game at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Pratishthan (BKSP) ground in Savar Friday, reports UNB. Earlier, on Wednesday's...
GALLE, Aug 8 (AFP): Kumar Sangakkara rose to fourth place in the list of century-makers as he and the retiring Mahela Jayawardene plundered Pakistan's bowlers on the rain-hit third day of the first Test in Galle Friday. The hosts, who...
HARARE, Aug 8 (AFP): Freshly re-installed as the top-ranked Test team in the world, South Africa appear disinclined to take any mercy on their struggling neighbours Zimbabwe when the two teams engage in a rare Test starting Saturday. Given Zimbabwe's...
PARIS, Aug 8 (AFP): Brazil defender David Luiz insisted he was over his World Cup heartbreak as he was unveiled as a new Paris Saint-Germain player at a plush hotel in the French capital Thursday. "The days immediately after were...
MANCHESTER, Aug 8 (AFP): Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled India back into the fourth Test as England took their turn to struggle with the bat at Old Trafford Friday. England were 201 for six at lunch on the second day, a lead...
MONTREAL, Aug 8 (AFP): Top seed Serena Williams avoided the upset bug at the WTA hardcourt tournament at Montreal Thursday, defeating Lucie Safarova 7-5, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals. Williams fired 11 aces and won 76 percent of her first...
BERLIN, Aug 8 (AFP): Liverpool's Spanish international goalkeeper Pepe Reina has joined Bayern Munich on a three-year deal, the Bundesliga champions announced Friday. The 31-year-old spent last season on loan from the English Premier League runners-up with Serie A side...
BALTIMORE, Aug 8 (AFP): Sandra Gal shot a six-under-par 65 Thursday to grab a one-shot lead after the opening round of the inaugural LPGA Tour's Meijer Classic. Gal, who has missed the cut in three of her last four starts,...
Wimbledon champ Kvitova toppled at Montreal MONTREAL, Aug 8: Petra Kvitova's first tournament since her Wimbledon triumph came to an abrupt end Thursday as she was bundled out of the WTA hardcourt tournament at Montreal by Ekaterina Makarova. Russia's Makarova,...
Karar Mahmudul Hassan | 2014-08-09 00:00:00
The Cabinet at its March 24, 2014 meeting unanimously approved the 'Toll Policy 2014' and decided to collect toll, in phases, from all vehicles which include trucks, buses, lorries and bicycle-rickshaws using national, regional and inter-district highways. The money thus...
Babul Barman | 2014-08-09 00:00:00
Stocks extended gaining streak for the three weeks in a row with significant improvement in turnover, as investors snapped up large cap stocks. Analysts said that the buying spree was spurred mainly by banks' deposit interest rate cut and lucrative...
The local currency appreciated further more against the greenback during the week of August 3 to August 7 last and was traded around 77.48 levels. With the event of huge inward remittances ahead of Eid, the market was eased off....
TOKYO, Aug 08 (AFP): Tokyo stocks dropped more than 3.0 per cent Friday morning as investors reacted to US President Barack Obama saying he had authorised air strikes on Iraq. The Nikkei 225 index lost as much as 3.14 per...
MUMBAI, Aug 8 (Reuters): Indian shares fell 1 per cent on Friday, to mark their third consecutive session of declines, as blue-chips such as Larsen & Toubro slumped on global risk aversion after US President Barack Obama authorised targeted air...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-08-09 00:00:00
Thousands of handloom factories in the country have been closed down in the last couple of years and many others are facing the same fate mainly for want of government's policy support, industry insiders said. They said around 0.2 million...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-08-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) has sought Tk 5.0 billion in financial assistance from the government to help it procure raw jute urgently, officials have said, as the prime time of the cash crop has now set in. The state...
FE Report | 2014-08-09 00:00:00
Prices of lentil and chilli went up while loose soybean oil decreased on Friday compared with a week ago, traders said. However, normalcy returned to the city kitchen markets. Heavy crowd was seen in the kitchen markets on the day...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-08-09 00:00:00
The National Consumer Complaint Centre (NCCC) has drawn little response from consumers due to lack of adequate campaign by the authorities concerned as well as reluctance of consumers, sources said. Just a single complaint has been lodged with the organisation...
BANGKOK, Aug 8 : India's economy is expected to record stronger growth momentum of 5.5 per cent in the current fiscal, underpinned by "solid expansion" in industrial and services sectors, and impetus to economic reforms by the new government, according...
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