FE ReportBangladesh Railway will press a number of special trains into service to facilitate hundreds of thousands of devotees to attend the Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi from all over the country Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta announced at the Railway Bhaban...
FE ReportMinisters, business leaders, bankers and different trade bodies have condoled the death of Chairman of Square Group Samson H Chowdhury.In a condolence message, Finance Minister AMA Muhith expressed his deep shock and grief at the death of Samson H...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hasan Mahmud Khondker on Thursday handed over commemorations to the bereaved family members of those policemen who were killed in action last year, reports UNB.The commemorations were given for the glorious contribution of policemen who...
Speakers at a citizens' rally here on Thursday urged the government to reopen the country's closed state-run jute mills to create job opportunities for those who lost their jobs due to the closure of these mills, reports UNB.They said about...
Atiur RahmanThe annual lecture event commemorating Nurul Matin, one of the helmsmen of our central bank and the banking sector in the early years after liberation, has been very purposeful. To this day the banking community in Bangladesh values highly...
Maswood Alam KhanThere are times when you have to tolerate the intolerant. It seems the United States has no option but to tolerate the new government in Egypt, being formed by Islamist Brotherhood Party. The ascent of Islamists in Egypt...
Khan Ferdousour RahmanOur eyes and brain work together to see; but when this doesn't work the way it should, a person may be visually impaired, or blind. Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological...
International standard accounting procedures are practised in many business establishments of Bangladesh. But there is also the other side in many other business organisations which do not have accounting systems in place consistent with the international standard. Achieving uniform accounting...
The government is taking up some development projects such as elevated expressway, metro rail and flyovers, to further improve the road communication network in the city. According to experts, these projects, including the proposed 26-kilometre elevated expressway, will rather increase...
The Gulshan-Banani-Baridhara Lake, one of the largest water bodies of the capital, is dying. Choked by weeds and garbage, it is no longer attractive to the eye as the lake has been reduced to almost a drain. Conservation of water...
The recent news report headlined: 'Schools celebrating textbook festival' has drawn my attention.The report says that all primary and secondary schools and madrasas across the country celebrated the "Text Book Distribution Festival" on the first day of 2012. What was...
The newly-appointed minister in charge of Railway expressed his desire to reintroduce railway services again in the routes closed earlier along with the introduction of new routes. Similar utterances were made by his predecessor in the communications ministry. The Rupsha-Bagerhat...
The much-hyped energy roadmap of the ruling coalition seems to have hit a snag. With the discloser made on January 04 by none other than the chairman of Petrobangla that given known reserves of natural gas, the country may fall...
Syed Mansur HashimWere we to believe the internet-generated news, then gathering of intelligence in 'real time' in troubled hot spots like Syria will become a child's play. Admittedly, the World Wide Web or the 'internet' (as it is known in...
Mohammad Helal UddinEconomic development organisations have long been seeking ways to apply market-based approaches as a means to poverty reduction in developing countries. A shining success of this endeavour is microfinance. First appearing in the early 1970's, by 2006 more...
Md Nurnobi IslamOn December 25, 2011 different newspapers published news about assault on a teacher in Kurigram Government College. A student who happens to be president of Chhatra League of that college confined a teacher on duty in a room...
Recently, Obaidul Quader has been appointed as the communications minister. Development of communication is vital to develop our country. The expectation of the people from this ministry has so far remained greatly unfulfilled. I have great respect for this veteran...
I was simply flabbergasted when my daughter informed me at Dhaka Shahjalal Airport that the check-in counter of Emirates flight EK-585 could give only one boarding pass for Dhaka-Dubai flight and the official informed that the Dubai-Los Angeles boarding pass...
Economic growth in some countries which are the biggest destinations of the export commodities of Bangladesh could be very poor or even in the minus growth category in the new year. All possibilities are there that Bangladesh's export trade could...
Syed Abu Hasnath in the second of a three-part articleLand, with fertile alluvial soil and enough rainfall, is the most important natural resource of Bangladesh -- the main requirement for crop production. If per capita land available for cultivation is...
Masum Billah reviewing the bookThe book Krokdi is the name of a village which bears testimony to the deep love of one's motherland and to learn its glorious history. Subrata Kumar Das has arrested all the glorious history and the...
FE ReportDhaka stocks edged marginally lower Thursday amid volatile trading throughout the session with fall in turnover value, as the investors booked profit.The market analysts said that the market fell on profit taking and it was a normal price correction,...
FE Report The government will take action against those involved in the irregularities in the newly introduced distributorship system that is widely believed to be the main reasons for volatility of soybean prices in the markets, officials said. "We introduced...
FE ReportThe committee formed to suggest the ways for supporting the small investors, who were affected by stock market debacle, has extended the timeframe of submitting information on investors' margin and non-margin accounts up to January 10, officials said.The committee...
ICB Asset Management Company Limited (ICB AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, disclosed net asset value (NAV) of two unit funds at the close of business operation on January 3, said a press release.The funds are ICB AMCL...
FE ReportThe newly appointed chief executive officer of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Dr Musharraf Hussain said that they are working for strengthening investors' faith to the market."By strengthening investors' faith to the market, we wanted to remove the wrong...
PARIS, January 05 (Reuters): France was expected to draw solid demand for its 10-year bonds at an auction on Thursday, despite the lingering threat of a downgrade to its AAA credit rating, as yields offer an attractive premium to benchmark...
The government issued 'international terrestrial cable' (ITC) licence to five companies Thursday to maintain uninterrupted tele-connectivity with the rest of the world. The companies that have received licence are Asia-AHLJV, BD Link Communication Ltd, Mango Teleservices Ltd, Summit Communications Ltd...
Bangladesh General Insurance Company Ltd. (BGIC) welcomed 2012 on 1st day of January 2012 aiming the fulfillment of ideologies of late M A Samad, a pioneer of insurance industry and founder of BGIC who left behind his followers in 2005....
Stock dividend creditedThe authorities of Beacon Pharma have stated that they have credited the stock dividend for the year that ended on June 30, 2011 to the respective shareholders' BO accounts.Beacon Pharma upgradedThe shares of Beacon Pharma will be placed...
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