BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhua): China's foreign trade will grow "steadily" this year in spite of increasing signs of an economic slowdown, the country's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Monday. Given that there are no "big changes" in the international...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-05-06 00:00:00
Export growth of agricultural products in the first nine months of the current fiscal year (FY'14) has declined compared to that of the corresponding period of last FY as fruits export witnessed a massive 60 per cent fall. Lack of...
FE Report | 2014-05-06 00:00:00
Walton, the country's leading electronics, electrical, automobiles and home appliance products manufacturing and marketing company, is setting up a state-of-the-art factory at Chandra in Gazipur to manufacture some 2.0 million compressors of refrigerators and air-conditioners annually. The construction work of...
The Jute and Textiles Ministry has spent 73 per cent of the fund released for implementing 18 projects under the annual development programme (ADP) in the first nine months of the current fiscal year 2013-14, reports BSS. According to an...
China manufacturing weakens further BEIJING, May 5 : China's manufacturing sector contracted for a fourth consecutive month in April, HSBC said Monday, the latest sign that the world's second-largest economy is slowing. The British banking giant's purchasing managers index (PMI)...
Any conscious citizen will be shocked to hear the remarks of the State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal that there is no need to be alarmed at the abduction and killing spree in Narayanganj. The common people want...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-05-06 00:00:00
Over more than three decades and a half, private sector has been given the role of engine of growth in Bangladesh. With more or less facilitating role of the government, the private sector has emerged in a robust way. It...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-05-06 00:00:00
As India enters the last leg of its more than a month-long national elections, matters relating to several national issues and foreign affairs - including relations with the neighbours - are coming up in the campaign. One of the major...
Home to the world's longest sea beach, Cox's Bazar, has miserably failed to be a darling or a jewel among the most beautiful and highly appealing sea resorts of the world. One of its natural drawbacks is the quality of...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-05-06 00:00:00
The maritime safety week is being observed from May 04 with the slogan - We build the country following the law and by increasing public awareness and creating a maritime-safe Bangladesh. The week is expected to raise awareness among all...
Niamat Ullah Sarker | 2014-05-06 00:00:00
With globalisation, a new horizon has been opened up in increasing trade and commerce throughout the world. During this time, people are free to work in jobs of their own choice, try to sell their products or services at whatever...
India is the largest democratic country in the world. Since its inception as a sovereign state, democracy has been running there smoothly. India is the largest country in this subcontinent and Bangladesh is surrounded by India from three sides. Indian...
The government has decided to eliminate duty on firefighting equipment. We are sure it will encourage the common people to keep the safety equipment in their homes so that they can use those in case of emergency. We have a...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2014-05-06 00:00:00
In the conventional family system, children support their parents in their old age and parents support their children in their younger age. Thus, parents and children are embedded in a mutually beneficial exchange that is not performed in market but...
Sourajit Aiyer from Mumbai concluding his two-part article titled What India\'s leading Prime Ministerial candidates mean for its economy | 2014-05-06 00:00:00
The need for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to balance coalition politics took its toll on the speed of reforms. This, along with environment clearance issues, policy delays and inflation slowed down the investment cycle by companies. Tight monetary...
FE Report | 2014-05-06 00:00:00
Nagorik Morcha, a platform of 27 citizens' organisations, has demanded immediate introduction of district-wise budget from the upcoming fiscal year through procedural reforms for ensuring participation of mass people in the national budget. The leaders of the consortium placed the...
Senior Awami League (AL) leader Suranjit Sengupta came down heavily on the home ministry, criticising its role in seven murders in Narayanganj, reports bdnews24.com. "…the responsibility of the home ministry should be given to someone who has leadership quality, personality...
A Dhaka court has set May 8 for arguments afresh on the Ramna Batamul blast case of 2001, reports UNB. Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge M Ruhul Amin Monday fixed the date, dismissing a defence plea of accepting the list...
President Md Abdul Hamid said Monday country's civil society has been enjoying full freedom to express their opinion. "The civil society of the country has been given full freedom to express their views," the President said this when the outgoing...
Some 48300 enumerators will prepare the list of possible voters during the triple-phase countrywide electoral rolls update, scheduled to kick off May 15, reports UNB. The Election Commission (EC) will also appoint 9,660 supervisors, one for five enumerators each, EC...
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) general secretary Habibur Rashid Habib was released from jail on bail Monday, reports UNB. Habib walked out of Dhaka Central Jail at 11:00 am as his release order reached the prison, JCD acting president Bazlul Karim...
SATKHIRA, May 5 (UNB): A local leader of Awami League (AL) sustained injuries in a bomb attack by miscreants at Islamkati under Tala Upazila Monday. The injured was identified as Sheikh Abdul Aziz, general secretary of AL Islamkati union unit....
Fakhrul gets bail in vandalism case A Dhaka court Monday granted bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a vandalism case with Jatrabari thana. Metropolitan Magistrate Waiskuruni Khan Chowdhury passed the order after the BNP leader...
Withdrawal of water from common rivers by setting up dams in the upstream areas causes a loss of about Tk 50 billion to Bangladesh each year, according to water experts, reports UNB. "Bangladesh suffers a loss of about Tk 5,000...
Voicing deep concern over the recent spate in killings and abductions, Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Prof Mizanur Rahman Monday feared that the country's human rights may be at stake if the law order continues to deteriorate,...
The High Court (HC) asked Monday the authorities concerned to issue directives to all deputy commissioners for taking proper measures to protect canals, playgrounds and parks across the country, reports BSS. A bench with Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice...
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