M. Serajul Islam | 2014-02-11 00:00:00
The January 05 elections are being described by the ruling Awami League (AL) like business as usual. They are stating that the elections have been held legally and it is bad luck for the opposition that they did not join...
Mohammad Hasan concluding his four-part article titled Human resource development in RMG factories | 2014-02-11 00:00:00
Workers think that job is a favour from their owners. Lack of nutritious food, sufficient rest, hygienic residence, etc. makes the workers socially, physically and mentally weak. Working extra time and seven days a week create a distance between them...
The government has extended the deadline for relocation of brick kilns from areas under a city corporation or municipality up to June 30 next. This is the fifth such extension. Even then the vice-president of the Bangladesh Brick Manufacturing Owners...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-02-11 00:00:00
The proactive role of the government and BGMEA (Bangladesh garment manufacturers and exporters association) can help the restoration of the generalised system of preferences (GSP) suspended by the US administration on June 27, 2013. Considering the working environment in readymade...
Tayeb Husain from Lund, Sweden | 2014-02-11 00:00:00
Recently an article in the FE (05 Feb 2014) about bumper potato harvest in Bangladesh described the plight of the poor farmers due to the plentiful yield. The bumper harvest has pushed down the prices so low that the poor...
I was greatly dismayed to read about a college girl being severely burned after her stalkers set her on fire in her sleep at Chandipur. The name of the victim is Jolly and she is an undergraduate student of a...
An article on the subject, published recently in your pages, reviewed the potential of various alternative sources of energy and power. However, one very important readily available source was not mentioned which has always been avoided in Bangladesh. This is...
The finance minister, NBR chairman, and other senior officers of the NBR continue to give advice regarding income tax payment. Alongside, income tax fairs are organised every year in many cities. Unfortunately the harassments by the tax officials have not...
Wali-Ul-Maroof Matin | 2014-02-11 00:00:00
Prices are determined by the market forces-demand and supply. It is said in jest that a parrot can be turned into an economist by teaching it just two words-demand and supply. This saying contains a great deal of truth. If...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2014-02-11 00:00:00
Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah (1873-1965) was the pride of the Muslims in Bengal and one of the most enlightened personalities of his time as a renowned academician and social reformer, a reputed philanthropist, a legendary literary figure and Sufi thinker. He...
On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran , it gives me great pleasure to extend , on behalf of the Iranian government & people of Iran , our heartfelt greetings &...
Iran is the land of history, a country filled with the memory of many told and untold events, known as the cross roads of the world. The brilliant history of the Iranian civilization has manifested itself in different historic periods....
Geography: Location: Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and Pakistan. Area: 1,648,195 sq km Country comparison to the world: 18 Border countries: Afghanistan 936 km, Armenia 35 km, Azerbaijan 432...
Putting on the backburner the pronouncement of its judgment, newly-designated First Additional District and Sessions Judge Monday re-fixed February 27 for starting further arguments from both sides in the long-pending Maj Gen Manzoor murder case, reports UNB. Fixing the next...
The High Court (HC) Monday issued a rule asking ASM Firoz, chief whip of the Jatiya Sangsad, to explain under what authority he has been holding the office of MP from Patuakuhali-2 constituency, reports UNB. Responding to a writ petition...
A fresh hearing on 'Prospects for Democratic Reconciliation and Workers' Rights in Bangladesh' will be held at the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in Washington today (Tuesday), reports UNB. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian...
Bangladesh has earned wide acknowledgment of foreign nations as it overcame a crucial political transition with 29 foreign nations so far congratulating Sheikh Hasina on reelection as the premier after the January 5 polls, reports BSS. In the past one...
Police in separate drives arrested 104 people, including 31 Jamaat-Shibir men, from different areas of Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Habiganj Sunamganj and Chuadanga districts on various charges, reports UNB. In Sylhet, at least 73 people were arrested by police from different areas...
Consumers' Association of Bangladesh (CAB) formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club in the city Monday protesting selling adulterated and substandard medicines and the price hike of the life-saving substances, reports UNB. CAB general secretary Advocate...
Four political parties-Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), Socialist Party of Bangladesh (SPB), Gano Forum and Nagarik Oikya- Sunday slammed the government for its move to commercialise education in the country's public universities, reports UNB. Addressing a human chain, leaders of...
The High Court (HC) has granted anticipatory bail to BNP leader and former health minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case, reports bdnews24.com. The bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed granted bail for six weeks...
No breakthrough in the investigation into Baniarchar blast case of 2001 has yet been made 13 years since the carnage that killed 10 people and injured many others, reports BSS. "No progress has been made in the investigation into the...
BNP vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman Monday called for changing the government accusing it of killing democracy through the January 5 parliamentary elections, reports UNB. "We want downfall this autocratic government. It has killed the democracy," he told a discussion:"...
Along with digitisation of the political office of Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina, different committees under the ruling party will soon be brought under database, reports BSS. The party has a plan to introduce free Wi-Fi zone in political...
Police have pressed charges against nine persons including Mufti Izaharul Islam and his son Mufti Harun Bin Izahar in three cases filed over a bomb explosion at a madrasa in Chittagong, reports bdnews24.com. Investigation Officer (IO) and Khuslhi thana SI...
FE Report | 2014-02-11 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) cancelled a High Court order Monday that earlier granted anticipatory bail to Hall-Mark Group chairman Jasmine Islam in an ACC case. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case against Ms Jasmine for...
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