The management of the Biman - the national flag-carrier - continues to present a disconcerting picture. It is still incurring a huge amount of losses, causing a continuous haemorrhage on the public exchequer. It was converted into a public limited...
Amid the outbreak of MERS infection in Saudi Arabia, the government has issued a set of pre-cautionary directives for Bangladeshi pilgrims going to perform hajj this year. Talking to reporters after a meeting with Islamic Foundation and HAAB at the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-06-23 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith is deeply frustrated by the current state of investment in the private sector. In fact, an investment-drought has gripped the economy in recent years. In such a situation, anyone holding the portfolio of the ministry of...
Neil Ray | 2014-06-23 00:00:00
A famous folk song,"O iccha kare parandare gamchha dia bandhi" (How I wished I could tie up my soul with gamchha!) has immortalised the indigenous version of towel. While towel is thick and heavier, gamchha/gamuchha/ gamochha is a thin and...
Argentina needed Messi magic to overcome their spirited, under-dog opponent Iran which nobody had thought would give any competition to the South American football giant. But at the end Iran almost snatched a point from two times champion Argentina. When...
I am disturbed by the fact that the Ministry of Finance has proposed a new slab of Tk 3.0 million (30.00 lakh) @ of 30 per cent for the individual tax payer having annual income of more than Tk 4.42...
Muzaffar Ahmed | 2014-06-23 00:00:00
The Financial Express in its June 20 issue published a report under the heading "CMAs empowered to audit alongside CAs". The report quoted some chartered accountants (CAs) making derogatory remarks about the qualification of cost and management accountants (CMAs). Some...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-06-23 00:00:00
The word 'widow' brings to the canvas of our mind an affrighted similitude of a lady with a saddened face, wearing a grayish brown sari, perhaps the only sari she owns. The elongated holes are visible in her earlobes that...
LONDON: European stock markets closed in the red Monday as traders reacted to a further drop in eurozone business activity that offset positive news for Chinese manufacturing, analysts said. London’s FTSE 100 index of top companies lost 0.36 per cent...
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, June 22 (AFP): Lionel Messi scored a brilliant injury time winner as Argentina overcame Iran 1-0 to book their place in the last 16 of the World Cup in Belo Horizonte Saturday. Four-time world player of the...
Messi is a genius but we can't rely on him like we did with Maradona, says Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella. Argentina will need to improve in their next World Cup games despite having 'genius' Lionel Messi, he admitted. Messi's scored...
Jorge Luis Pinto and the Costa Rican Football Federation are furious at Fifa for ordering seven of their team's players to undergo drug tests in the aftermath of the famous World Cup win over Italy. Diego Maradona has accused world...
Residents have been evacuated from a favela near one of Brazil's World Cup stadiums, after a huge sinkhole opened up. Footage shows partially-collapsed homes perched on the edge of the crater in Natal, already filled with household appliances, furniture and...
Miroslav Klose has become the joint top goal scorer in the World Cup history after scoring against Ghana during their Group G clash in Brazil Saturday. Equalling the record held by former Brazil striker Ronaldo with his 71st minute strike,...
FE Report | 2014-06-23 00:00:00
Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury Sunday said future food security of Bangladesh is dependent on adaptation of genetically modified (GM) crops. She made the remark while she was chairing a session on agricultural development as a part of the first...
India has said it is writing to the Swiss authorities, seeking details of Indians who have parked untaxed wealth in Swiss banks. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s comments came after reports that Switzerland was sharing with Delhi a list of Indians...
ABU DHABI, June 22 (Gulf News): The Ministry of Economy has made an elaborate plan to monitor the food market in the UAE during Ramadan to control prices, a top official told the news agency. The ministry has fixed prices...
PARIS, June 22 (AFP): Escalating violence in Iraq is threatening the development of some of the world's largest oil reserves at a time when OPEC's number-two producer was expected to be a key future supplier. Western majors including BP, ExxonMobil...
BEIJING, June 22 (Xinhua): A total of 4.4 million air passenger trips were made in 2013 between China and the United States, according to latest Chinese official data. Seventeen companies from China and the US carried the passengers and 150,000...
BAGHDAD, June 22 (AFP): Sunni militants advanced through west Iraq after seizing a strategic Syria border crossing, as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in the region Sunday aiming to bridge widening rifts. The latest assaults saw the security...
HONG KONG, June 22 (AFP): Hong Kong citizens cast their ballots in an unofficial referendum on democratic reform Sunday, as booths opened across the territory in a poll that has enraged Beijing and drawn nearly 650,000 votes since it opened...
LONDON, June 22 (AFP): British Prime Minister David Cameron will force fellow EU leaders to vote on who should head the bloc's executive body if they try to impose Jean-Claude Juncker, Downing Street sources said Sunday. Cameron, who views the...
Traffic on Dhaka's leading roads came to a halt due to the long spell of rain and Awami League's founding anniversary rally. Huge lines of stranded cars were seen on key roads. According to police, a long spell of shower...
KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 (AFP): Malaysia Sunday rejected harsh US criticism for failing to tackle human trafficking after an annual State Department report shamed the Southeast Asian country, together with Thailand and Venezuela. Bangkok has also said it is disappointed...
SIVERSK (Ukraine), June 22 (AFP): Ukraine's new Western-backed leader agreed Sunday to dialogue with separatists not implicated in "murder and torture" as he laid out a peace plan that Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to back. Petro Poroshenko's initiative follows...
British monarchy defends cost of home for William, Kate LONDON, June 22: The British monarchy has defended the cost of refurbishing a Kensington Palace apartment for Prince William, his wife Catherine and their baby son Prince George. A royal spokesman...
LEEDS, United Kingdom, June 22 (AFP): Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews took his Test-best figures before the tourists' openers survived until lunch on the third day of the second Test against England at Headingley on Sunday. Sri Lanka in their...
BRASïLIA, June 22 (AFP): Stuttering Brazil will look to clinch their berth in the last 16 of the World Cup as they host already-eliminated Cameroon in their final Group A match at the National Stadium in the capital Brasilia on...
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