A police official and a mugger suffered bullet wounds in a gunfight in the city’s Eskaton Road Monday night. Police and witnesses said a group of muggers swooped on a businessman near the Janakantha Bhaban and snatched Tk 5.9 million...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Sunday stressed the need for increasing capacity of industries on compliance issue for surviving in the intensifying global competition. He also laid emphasis on upgrading the quality of locally produced goods to compete with...
CHITTAGONG, July 6 (BSS): The workers of a Readymade garment (RMG) at Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) ransacked in a Hong Kong-based foreign factory, demanding wage hike and summer allowances on Sunday. CEPZ thana police said the workers were agitating...
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, July 6 ( Reuters) : The European Central Bank will keep interest rates very low for a long period of time to ensure monetary stability but euro zone governments must do their part to boost growth and cut...
The Cabinet Purchase Committee, the highest body to approve any public procurement, on Sunday rejected a French company's tender for installing a new online system of collecting value added tax (VAT), reports BSS. It asked the authorities concerned to call...
LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) : A flurry of initiatives by China to open up its currency, stock and bond markets inside and outside the country has failed so far to allay international investor concerns about performance, accessibility and liquidity. China...
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, July 6 (AFP) : Governments must increase public investment to help drive the global recovery and help boost "less robust than expected" economic growth, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Sunday. The head of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund...
BASEL, Switzerland, July 6 (AFP) : Switzerland has one-upped its European Union neighbours with a free trade deal with China that its politicians and business sector say is crucial to boosting ties with the world's second-largest economy. The free trade...
Trade, closer defence ties top Australia-Japan agenda SYDNEY, July 6 : Closer defence cooperation is set to take centre stage when Australia hosts Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this week, while the two allies will also shore up a burgeoning...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
We have had the interesting visit of Ms. Sushma Swaraj, Indian Minister of External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs, from June 25-27. Politicians and the media - both print and electronic - focused overtime on the various aspects of the...
M Serajul Islam | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Begum Khaleda Zia's interview given to the Indian Express after the visit of the Indian Foreign Minister to Dhaka has angered the Awami League (AL) leaders very much. In Parliament, they pretty much tore apart the leader of the Bangladesh...
The introduction of 'green tax' from the current fiscal year (FY) does otherwise serve as a pointer to government's recognition of the adverse effects of pollution, caused by a growing number of industries, on public health. Under the new Finance...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu, the man who has been in the national limelight of late for his alleged Machiavellian style of running the Basic Bank, a state-owned entity, is finally ousted from chairmanship of the bank. Finance Minister AMA Muhith...
Md. Bayazid Khan | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Not all countries produce enough food to feed their people. In the days to come spending on more production of food grains instead of acquiring money, arms and ammunition will be a vital issue for a country to establish its...
A warning notice alongside a road, presumably for drivers of vehicles read "GO SLOW", "Accident Porn Area". Possibly they wanted to write 'Accident Prone Area'; but ignorantly wrote 'Porn' instead of 'Prone'. Whoever wrote it in bright red on a...
Lionel Messi has inspired his team Argentina and took them to the dream semi final of the World Cup football after a gap of twenty-four years and it is indeed inspiring. I have this feeling that this time Messi will...
I whole-heartedly support the views of Professor Dorie LARue, a foreign national working in Dhaka, regarding the abuse and torture of horses in old Dhaka. The view was expressed in a letter published recently in an English daily. The description...
Very often we learn through media about the assistance, grant, loan from many agencies like the World Bank, the Asian development Bank, the Japan International Cooperative Agency, the UN, the UNDP etc. As a resident of the city I would...
B K Mukhopadhyay | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Corporate governance (CG) is a process and structure that is used to: direct and manage business, enhance shareholders' value and ensure financial viability. In a word, the very purpose of 'governance' is to build and strengthen: accountability, credibility, transparency, integrity...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
At Palima village in Kalihati Upazila in Tangail, Harunur Rashid Mondol had allegedly tortured his wife Amena Begum to death on Monday, June 30. The husband was 28-year-old and his wife 10 years his junior. On Tuesday, Mondol was arrested...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claimed Sunday that Awami League (AL) has become an abandoned political party after the January-5 polls, reports UNB. "AL can't face the opposition politically as it has become a deserted political party...
FE Report | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
International watchdog body Human Rights Watch (HRW) called upon the government of Bangladesh to withdraw a draft law which is set to regulate foreign donations coming for the support of voluntary activities, mainly by the non-government organisations (NGOs). The New...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG: Organisations of indigenous people in Khagrachari hill district demanded Sunday immediate arrest of those who attacked the delegation of the International Commission on CHT Affairs in Rangamati Saturday. They took out a procession, staged demonstration and held a rally...
RAJSHAHI, July 6 (BSS): Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif asked Sunday here the field level officials to take proper decision on the vested property related matters and discharge their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty to this end. He said...
Cabinet Purchase Committee approved on Sunday a total of six proposals including a tender proposal for 400 MW gas-fired Bibiyana South combined cycle power plant, reports UNB. With Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the chair, the cabinet body meeting gave...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Women and Children Affairs Ministry suggested Sunday renaming the ministry in its Bangla version, reports UNB. The committee suggested calling it 'Nari O Shisu Bishayak Mantranaloy' in stead of 'Mohila O Shisu Bishayak Montranaloy' in...
FE Report | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
A three-day Deputy Commissioner (DC) Conference 2014 will begin tomorrow (Tuesday) in the capital, official said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the conference at Shapla Hall of Prime Minister's Office (PMO) at Tejgaon. "The DC conference is very important...
FE Report | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
The National Productivity Organisation (NPO) under the ministry of industries (MoI) has initiated to award the country's entrepreneurs for the second time in recognition of their efforts to boost productivity in different sectors, MoI officials said. The award titled 'National...
Rights activists have urged the government to set up adequate number of public toilets in the capital's busy points with a view to easing sufferings of pedestrians and floating people, reports UNB. The call was made on Sunday from a...
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