LONDON: European stock markets traded mixed Wednesday, with London sliding after a bigger-than-expected drop in British unemployment takes it close to the central bank’s threshold to begin raising interest rates. London’s FTSE 100 index of top companies dipped 0.02 per...
The High Court Wednesday asked the government to submit before it by February 2 the probe report of a judicial inquiry commission on the 2001 post-polls violence. The court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in two...
Rafiqul Islam | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
There has been a long-drawn debate over whether the monetary policy decisions should be governed by rules or discretion. However, neither pure discretion nor adherence to an intermediate monetary target has proved satisfactory. Instead, several countries are moving toward a...
The apparel industry was fortunately free of any trouble for the last few days. But the calm could be very temporary and the risks of starting troubles afresh always remain. Intermittent troubles over the demand for wage-hike or regular payment...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh is facing an image crisis due to a number of reasons. Among the factors, political unrest has contributed much to it. It has affected the economy with regard to investment, production, foreign aid, export and import. There are reports...
Ridwan Quaium | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
Cyclists in our country in the past hardly ever wore helmet or other safety gears such as gloves, knee guard, elbow guard etc. while cycling. This is mainly because the concept of helmet and safety gears was non-existent for cyclists...
I humbly disagree with the contentions expressed in the two letters published in your esteemed daily-one by 'An elderly tax payer' on 16 January, and the other by Md Ashraf Hossain on 09 January. Both of them argued and opined...
From a recent press release from the Dhaka office of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, it is known that the annual demand for edible oil and fat in Bangladesh was 1.8 million in 2013. Bangladesh imported 1.7 million tones edible...
Dhaka-dwellers squander much of their time, stuck as they are, in gridlock every day. Haphazard car parking is one of the reasons for the chronic traffic jam. If we look around in our city, we will find cars, motorcycles and...
Five people, including a woman, were killed and 20 others injured in separate road accidents in four upazilas of Sirajganj district on Wednesday. In Sadar upazila, two people were killed and seven others injured as six bus and trucks crashed...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
A lady in her mid-sixties started the conversation with me while we both were waiting at JFK airport in New York. We were to catch a plane for Baltimore. She was a repeat complainer type. At least three times she...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Jan 21: Poultry growers of Rangpur district have been facing huge financial losses due to abnormal price hike of poultry feed and medicine in recent times. Frequent blockades and hartal during last few months further deteriorated the situation. According...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
TANGAIL, Jan 21: Tangail is the home of the weavers of world famous Tangail saree, a handloom saree made of both cotton and silk threads with intricate handworked design or all over its body. Though saree is a produce at...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
CHUADANGA, Jan 21: The potato farmers of Chuadanga district have become frustrated and cannot recoup the production cost due to sharp fall in price of the crop in the local markets this year. Many farmers are returning home with their...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
KHULNA, Jan 21: Two persons were killed in a road accident in front of M M College of Fultala of Khulna district Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Sakina Begum (50) and her grandson Rumman Jamil (10) of Deruli...
JOYPURHAT, Jan 21 (BSS): About 400 poor women in Khetlal upazila of the district have achieved self-reliance after receiving loan from Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) and engaged themselves in various income generating activities. They brought revolutionary changes to their...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Jan 21: Cultivation of garlic is going on in Nilphamari district. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said this year's target of garlic cultivation in the district is in 794 hectares of land to produce 5161 metric tonnes at...
MUNSHIGANJ, Jan 21 (UNB): Five people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers in Gajaria upazila on Tuesday morning. Locals said Ripon, president of Jubo Dal Hesendi union unit, and Sohel, president of the same unit Bangladesh...
MUMBAI, Jan 21 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex edged up on Tuesday as interest rate-sensitive companies such as Tata Motors and ICICI Bank extended recent gains amid rising expectations that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will keep monetary policy unchanged...
An eight-member international team, including three from Bangladesh, led by Dr Mark Steinhoff has received the Bruce Squires Award for their article titled "Neonatal outcomes after influenza immunisation during pregnancy: a randomised controlled trial" in Canada. The authors of a...
NEW YORK: Millions of Americans braved a miserable commute across the East coast Wednesday after a fierce storm dumped more than a foot of snow from the Mid-Atlantic to New England. The federal government stumbled back to work as bitter...
BEIRUT, Jan 21 (AFP): Four people were killed in an apparent suicide car bombing in south Beirut on Tuesday, in the latest in a string of attacks targeting strongholds of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah. The blast was quickly claimed by...
PESHAWAR, Jan 21 (AFP): Pakistani jets and helicopter gunships bombarded suspected Taliban hideouts in a northwestern tribal district Tuesday, killing at least 25 people, in response to two major bombings targeting the military. The air strikes came a day after...
MANILA, Jan 21 (AFP): The Philippine government and Muslim rebels said Tuesday they were optimistic of clearing the final hurdle to ending a deadly decades-old rebellion, ahead of a fresh round of talks in Malaysia. The Kuala Lumpur negotiations on...
BEIJING, Jan 21 (AFP): China will set up new civilian patrols with a 5,000-tonne vessel in the disputed South China Sea, state-run media said on Tuesday, in another move that could inflame territorial disputes. Beijing claims much of the waters...
60 Afghan de-miners briefly held hostage by gunmen HEART Jan 21: An unknown armed group briefly held about 60 Afghan de-miners hostage in the northwest of the country on Tuesday before an operation by security forces freed them, officials said....
FE Report | 2014-01-22 00:00:00
Business leaders urged the government Tuesday to formulate business friendly labour rules in consultation with all the stakeholders mainly to pave the way for employment generation. They also suggested not to concentrate only on one sector or specific issues rather...
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