The city for the first time witnessed a beauty contest of Hijras, who are biologically male but emotionally female, at the Goethe Institute Friday night, reports BSS. A total of 10 contestants took part in the exceptional beauty pageant enjoyed...
The government must provide its best support to the Information Commission to make it truly independent, Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman said. "The commission is yet to get government fund as per its requisition. But, it is...
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has decided to provide technical support for community clinics through its US$ 6.0 million Safe Motherhood Promotion Project-II (SMPP) for enhancing maternal and neonatal health (MNH) service in the rural areas. "If we want to...
A week-long book fair will begin at Teachers and Students Centre (TSC) of Dhaka University (DU) from tomorrow (Monday), reports BSS. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid is expected to attend the inaugural function of the week-long fair as the chief...
Joinab Hashem, mother of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hassan Mahmood Khandker, died of old-age complications at a private hospital in the city Saturday morning. She was 80, reports BSS. She left behind two sons, three daughters, grandchildren, relatives and...
The grand rally and convention of Peshajibi Samonnoy Parishad, a platform of 12 professional bodies, will be held at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BICC) today (Sunday), reports BSS. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to address the function as the...
Habibullah N Karim Bengali literature of the last century certainly lionized high academic achievements and all professions that required good academic standing such as civil service, engineering, law, medicine and teaching. It's no wonder entrepreneurship was thrown to the gutters...
Bangladesh economy is now bleeding for many reasons. Price spirals of essentials, inflation, and energy crisis have made life miserable not only for the lower income group but also for the entire middle class. Price increase of liquid fuel, CNG...
The fire that broke out last Thursday afternoon at a large slum located at Rayerbazar in the capital city left a trail of severe damage and destruction. The tragedy -- the usual sort that is witnessed in different parts of...
Shahiduzzaman Khan The lacklustre outcome of the just-concluded South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in Addu city of the Maldives demonstrated that the South Asian people and their leaders had not taken up adequate efforts to improve cooperation...
Anthony Deutsch of Reuters in Bali and Ben Bland of FT in Hanoi South-east Asian foreign ministers said they would back Burma's efforts to take up the rotating leadership of the 10-nation Asean region in 2014 -- reflecting a mood...
Hasibul Hasan The specter of social unrest is haunting the high-growth economies of Asia. In one nation after another, rising expectations are being dashed as economic conditions deteriorate. In India recently an anti-corruption campaign led by Anna Hazare, a charismatic...
Farzana Yasmin having recently completed her masters from Eden College in Dhaka, caused waves throughout the country on November 11 by repudiating her husband right at the wedding after her in-laws demanded dowry. She told the BBC. "I have no...
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...
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