Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) with the funding support of City Bank Limited has taken a new move under which poverty-hit women of Basatpur, a village near Benapole border in Jessore will be benefitted. The women who are often...
Prime Finance Asset Management Company Limited (PAMC) has declared the Net Asset Values (NAV) of Prime Financial First Unit Fund, the first private sector unit fund in Bangladesh, according to a press release. The total NAV of Prime Financial First...
FE Report Internationally accredited business consultant Roger Harrop conducted a two day workshop for CEOs organised by management consultant company HR Kites in the city recently. Harrop is the author of 'Staying in the helicopter- the key to profitable growth'...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Country's leading realtors have taken major cost cutting measures in a bid to make their investment safe in the face of fast falling of apartment sales, industry insiders said. Market watchers predict that Bangladesh's housing sector might...
Opposition BNP enforces dawn-to-dusk hartal (strike) in the capital city today (Sunday) pressing home their demand for cancelling the government's decision to split Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), reports UNB. Jamaat-e-Islami and other like minded political parties have extended their support...
Munima Sultana The Anti-corruption Commission hasn't found any "evidence" of graft in the Padma Bridge project despite a month-long probe by its two enquiry committees, officials said Saturday. The local anti-graft watchdog set up two bodies after the World Bank...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury Two advisers to the prime minister -- Dr. Gauhar Rizvi and Dr. Mashiur Rahman -- have met with the Indian prime minister Dr. Monmohan Singh in New Delhi. They conveyed Bangladesh's concern and anxiety caused by the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday refuted the claim of Opposition leader Khaleda Zia that the country's economy is in a grim situation, reports UNB. "She (Khaleda) has become crazy to make illegal money using the state power. When she cannot...
A US university teacher, who is the son of Awami League MP Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, drowned in sea while holidaying in Thailand. Jalal Alamgir, a 42-year old associate professor of political science at Boston University, had been on a one-year...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 3 (BSS): Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed today said the government has presented a new constitution to the nation by restoring its four basic principles. "We should uphold the basic principles of the constitution", the minister said while...
FE Report The construction of Tipaimukh Dam needs to be stopped at any cost for the sake of protecting the livelihoods of a large number of people of both India and Bangladesh and for the betterment of the economy, environment...
Bangladesh and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have inked a new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for 2011-2015, which includes a resource investment programme of around $4.5 billion, reports BSS. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith will launch the programme today...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman has asserted that International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) set up to try suspected war criminals of 1971 does meet the international standards, reports bdnews24.com. Mizanur Rahman urged the government on Saturday to speed up...
FE Report BRAC Kanon, an endeavour of BRAC Social Enterprises, started its journey in the capital Saturday aiming to promote greenery through their green products and services in order to save energy, money and the planet. The outlet which is...
BNP has expressed no-confidence in the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), dealing with crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War and demanded that all its proceedings be immediately stopped, reports bdnews24.com. "The fundamental rights of the war crime suspects have...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 3 (BSS): Freedom fighters (FFs) in Chittagong on Saturday demanded arrest of war criminals Golam Azam and Mir Kashem Ali within December, the month of victory. They also demanded completion of the trial of the detained war criminals...
The government will take stern action against those who would create anarchy during BNP's dawn-to-dusk hartal in Dhaka today (Sunday), reports BSS. State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Quamrul Islam sounded the note of warning at a discussion...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Saturday said that the present government has taken steps to enact a law for ensuring the rights of persons with disability and giving them the opportunity to contribute to country's development, reports UNB. The government...
DU Correspondent Most of the departmental heads of Dhaka University (DU) are not in favor of taking examinations during hartal (general strike) considering sufferings of students and teachers as public transportation becomes almost paralysed. Chairman of the Botany department of...
Bangladesh should strike future water sharing deals with India only after involving Bhutan, India, Nepal and China to find a sustainable solution to its 54 transboundary river problems, a retired government official said Saturday, reports BSS. "Solutions to water sharing...
The Bangladeshi community in East London made history last week, with the formation of the first ever workers union catering to the rights of Bangladeshi workers in the United Kingdom (UK), reports UNB. Already commanding a membership of over 500,...
President M Zillur Rahman emphasised on concerted efforts for achieving progress in research and development to help make Bangladesh a producer of information technology (IT), and not merely its buyer, reports UNB. The President laid the emphasis while speaking at...
Physicians at a seminar said that diabetes and heart disease are increasing alarmingly in the country mainly due to faulty lifestyle and intake of artificial and junk foods, reports UNB. Intake of natural foods, stress-free life, change of lifestyle and...
The 40th anniversary of death of Abdullah Hil Baqui will be observed today (Sunday), according to a press release. In this connection, a Doa and Milad Mahfil of Baqui will be held today at his paternal residence 'BAQUI BHABAN' after...
Thirty foreign nationals including 12 Bangladeshis, arrested by Tripura police for illegal entry into India, have been sent to jail upon a court order, reports bdnews24.com. A police team of Mobile Task Force unit arrested the foreigners including 18 Mynamar...
Newspapers Owners' Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) members will observe December 6 (Tuesday) as a holiday on account of Holy Ashura, reports UNB. Therefore, there will be no issue of newspapers owned by NOAB members including The Financial Express on Wednesday...
The Asian Highway network or AH for short, has been promoted by the UN-ESCAP since the late-1950s as a long-term vision of seeing Europe connected with the remotest part of the Asia-Pacific region through a continuous road and rail network...
M Arif Iqbal Khan History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon With every financial crisis comes a lesson. Financial crises are followed up by sovereign risk crisis and...
Tom Perry and Edmund Blair of Reuters from Cairo After waiting 83 years, the Muslim Brotherhood finally senses a chance to be at the centre of how Egypt is governed and the Islamists hope to lead the renaissance of a...
Bangladesh has slightly bettered its ranking this year than that of the previous year in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), prepared by the global anti-graft watchdog, the Transparency International (TI). However, the country, which was adjudged as the most corrupt...
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