NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (AFP): Beleaguered skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was put on notice by his predecessors Wednesday after India suffered yet another away series defeat, with one of them calling his leadership "obnoxious". The 1-0 loss to New Zealand...
Saint Gregory's High School and Dhaka Residential Model School & College reached the boys' final of the Milkman Mini Handball Tournament eliminating their rivals in the semifinals at Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium Wednesday, reports UNB. In...
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) arranged an exclusive Cricket Clinic for the children at the Gulshan Youth Club Ground in the city recently, said a press release. A total of 120 children participated in the meet. Renowned cricketer Shakib Al Hasan...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
Businesses are seemingly in for yet another trouble after the recent political turmoil. Terrorists and extortionists, as many recent events suggest, are trying to go on a rampage. What is really dangerous is that some errant and misguided elements in...
Md. Main Uddin | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
In response to the negative impact of prolonged blockade and strike during the last year on the repayment of loans, the Bangladesh Bank, the regulatory authority of banks operating in Bangladesh, allowed the scheduled banks to reschedule. In loan rescheduling,...
Social security is an important issue for any country that cares about the welfare of its citizens. Developed nations have well-knit social security programmes for which they spend billions of dollars every year. The poor developing nations like Bangladesh do...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
In the context of women's participation in economic activities, an important issue is how many of them pursue these activities on a full-time basis. For the sake of brevity we assume that six hours a day (42 hours a week)...
Anwar Faruq Talukder | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank has recently announced the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the second half of the financial Year 2013-2014 with the aim of containing inflation and maintaining the growth momentum. Monetary policy is generally defined as the process by which...
Loan-rescheduling has become a common practice in Bangladesh. Loan-rescheduling is the process of re-fixing outstanding loan repayment terms and extending the maturity. Is it rational to reschedule a defaulted loan? The answer is "it depends". When a borrower is defaulter,...
Forced disappearance and extra-judicial killing have increased manifold recently which is really alarming. The chairman of National Human Rights Commission has termed the law enforcers' versions of recent shootout incidents "cooked up fiction". I think every conscious citizen of this...
Media reports indicate that Titas Gas continues to be plundered by a section of political activists who manage to give illegal gas connection around Sonargaon and Narayanganj taking bribe. The political activists don't bother about law or legality. So, Titas...
It is a new problem. Some people ride elephants on the streets of Dhaka. They block the roads and ask for money from the passers-by and car owners. They do not move their elephants until they get money. Traffic gets...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
Upazila Parishad is a local government institution introduced by General Ershad. The first election Upazila Parishads was held in 1985. The election was discontinued for more than a decade and a half. The care-taker government of Dr Fakruddin Ahmed took...
M S Siddiqui | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
Livestock like buffaloes, cows, goats, fowl, duck etc., plays an important role in reducing rural poverty. It provides the lifeline for approximately 600 million of the 900 million rural poor in the world today either as a source of income...
FE Report | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has formed five bodies to oversee the formulation, execution, implementation and monitoring activities of the demutualised exchange, officials said. The premier bourse formed the committees at the first board meeting chaired by the Chairman Siddiqur Rahman...
FE Report | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
Stocks rebounded Wednesday, snapping a four-day losing streak with improving turnover value as investors went for buying mood at available attractive prices of stocks. Market analysts said after four session's fall over 174 points, many stocks came to a lucrative...
FE Report | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
The newly elected board of directors of Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) Wednesday made a courtesy call on the BSEC (Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission) Chairman, officials said. The CSE board made the courtesy call under the leadership of their Chairman...
Airtel Bangladesh Limited has introduced Movie Mall for the first time in Bangladesh. Airtel Movie Mall is a movie portal which contains latest and old Bangla and Hindi movies. Customers can also watch Airtel's eighth telefilm "Bhalobasha 101" which was...
Suspension of trading Grameenphone: Trading of the shares of Grameenphone Ltd. will remain suspended on record date today (February 20, 2014). H.R.Textile Mills: Trading of the shares of H.R.Textile Mills Limited will remain suspended on record date today (February 20,...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-02-20 00:00:00
The country's leading corporate houses are taking initiatives for expansion of their units to occupy a large portion of international plastic products' market, insiders at the export-oriented sector said. Lately, a good number of international buyers, comprising those both in...
MUMBAI, Feb 19 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex rose for a fourth consecutive session on Wednesday to mark its highest close in nearly four weeks, although amid low volumes, after software exporters such as Infosys gained on continued optimism about US...
Accusing the government of trying to manipulate the upazila (UZ) polls, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Wednesday no fair election is possible under the current regime, reports UNB. "Today's upazila elections have once again proved...
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