The number of examinees and students in all forms of educational systems in the country is steadily increasing. The only exception is in the area of science education. There the number is decreasing. This decrease is not a small one...
Md Joynal Abdin The small and medium enterprises (SME) are familiar as the engine of growth in developing economies. They are helping in economic development from two dimensions, firstly by producing goodsservices and secondly by employing more labour with comparatively...
Qazi Mahmudur Rahman concluding his two-part article Real estate is a common item for banking business in Bangladesh. In current practice, a bank lends funds against business. This is true. Besides this, they secure the loan by mortgaging real estate...
Goutam Gourab Barua "Smoking is pernicious to health" - a small quotation is written in every cigarette packets. Anyone who can read, just read it and then starts to smoke. This has become a common scenario in Bangladesh. Only those...
Khalilur Rahman The world's largest mangrove forest- the Sundarbans- could not find its place in the provisional list of new seven wonders of nature. Voting for the seven wonders was closed on November 11 last. In 2007 the New Wonders...
Bangladesh and India Home Secretary level meeting began in New Delhi Saturday, discussing a host of issues including easing of Indian visa regime for Bangladeshi travelers, reports UNB. The meeting held at Hotel Tajmahal also discussed extradition treaty, Land Boundary...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rebutted opposition claims that the economy is in a tailspin, report agencies. "I want to tell you that the economic situation has not become critical. We have managed to keep it running. We are in...
TRIPOLI, Nov 19 (AFP): Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son Seif al-Islam has been arrested in the south of the country, a senior National Transitional Council (NTC) official told AFP on Saturday. Seif al-Islam, Gaddafi's one-time successor who is...
Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Nov 19: Kuwait which had hitherto remained unaffected by the Arab Spring contagion witnessed its first anti-government demonstration day before yesterday. It was not a protest in the streets. It was the Kuwaiti lawmakers who led...
Nazmul Ahsan A meeting of the Council for the Coordination of Fiscal, Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies (Coordination Council) will be held on Thursday next to review the current macro-economic challenges and find out ways to help overcome them, a...
Syful Islam The country's Islamic banks are facing a gap between their assets and liabilities as they disburse more money in the form of loans than what they could collect as deposits in recent months. This has been revealed in...
The 14th extra-ordinary general meeting (EGM) of Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) Limited was held in the city recently, according to a press release. MTB Vice Chairman Dr Arif Dawla presided over the EGM while MTB Founding Chairman Syed Manzur Elahi...
FE Report A non-government think-tank said the government has taken different steps to revamp the country's stock market without bringing the 'game planners' of the market to book. "Due to downturn of the capital market, the government has taken steps...
Nizam Ahmed Bangladesh, once the world's fifth-largest tea exporter, imported some 5.0 million tonnes of tea over the last 10 months as local demand soared, traders said on Saturday. The imports helped keep market stable as prices continued to rise...
MUMBAI, Nov 19 (PTI): The rupee Friday plunged to 32- month low of sub-51 level against dollar on persisting demand for the US currency from banks and importers. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the domestic currency closed down 44...
Md Yeasin Ali has been appointed the chairman of the board of directors of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC). Mr Ali started his banking career after obtaining M.Sc in Agricultural Economics. He rendered his services for the last 40...
NEW DELHI, Nov 19 (Business Standard): Multinational retailers such as Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour looking to open stores in the country may have to source almost a third of their merchandise from small Indian manufacturers as the government tries to...
BEIJING, Nov 19 (PTI): China's trade surplus may drop to zero or even fall into negative digits in the next two years in view of declining exports and surging imports, a top official of China's central bank has said. China's...
BRUSSELS, Nov 19 (AFP): The EU's 27 national governments and the European Parliament agreed Saturday to limit spending to 129 billion euros ($174 billion) in the 2012 budget, up two per cent from 2011, the Polish EU presidency said. The...
HANOI, Nov 19 (Xinhua): Vietnam's vice minister Friday called for further promotion of border trade with China as the border area is considered as a gate of the country's northern key economic zone. Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade...
LA PAZ, Nov 19 (Xinhua): Bolivia reiterated Friday its definite rejection to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States due to great trade imbalance between the two countries. "We can't sign, under any arguments, a free trade...
NUSA DUA, Nov 19 (Reuters): Leaders of Japan, China and South Korea Saturday agreed to seek a trilateral investment treaty by the end of this year as a way to speed up talks on a free trade pact among the...
MIRPUR, Nov 19 (APP): The trade across both sides of the line of control (LoC) between Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Indian-occupied Kashmir touches Rs 17.6 million. Official sources told the reporter Friday that as many as 16 trucks rolled...
COLOMBO, Nov 19 (LBO): Sri Lanka has signed a deal with India to restore part of a northern railway line that was damaged during the ethnic war under project funded by soft loans from New Delhi. The agreement between Sri...
Arafat Ara Raw jute export earnings marked a decline by around Tk 1.0 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of the current financial year compared to the corresponding period of last year due to low price quotation by the buyers....
BALI (Indonesia), Nov 19 (PTI): Raising the issue of a big trade imbalance in favour of China, India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday told his counterpart Wen Jiabao it needs to be corrected for a "more conducive" business environment even...
Talha Bin Habib Bangladesh will contest the prestigious election for membership of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Executive Council to be held this month in London aiming to preserve the country's interest in the international shipping industry sector, officials said....
LONDON, Nov 18 (AFP): Commodity prices were mostly lower this week, in line with tumbling stock markets as traders sought cover from the escalating eurozone debt crisis. Financial markets fell sharply days as Italy, Spain and France faced a sharp...
FE Report Bangladeshi business conglomerate Intraco Group and prominent Indian car manufacturer Hindustan Motors (HM) signed a memorandum of understanding Saturday at a city hotel for marketing 'Ambassador' car in Bangladesh. The five-year marketing contract with Intraco has a target...
Yasir Wardad The country is expecting another "bumper" Aman output this year, but farmers stand to gain little as the price is lower compared to the production cost, farmers and officials said. Aman production totalled 12.7 million tonnes last year,...
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