A cooperative programme, reportedly focused on helping street people, was recently launched at Dhaka's Osmani Udyan. At its inaugural function, the Dhaka Tokai Ghar Cooperative Samity Ltd, as the initiative calls itself, opened a 'labour bazaar', avowedly to facilitate employment...
There can be no disagreement that the quality of the government's expenditures is critical. With the borrowings spent more on the productive sectors, the same helps increase the gross domestic product (GDP) and also plays a part in taming inflation....
Money speaks, and people with money are not likely to listen to poor powerless protesters. But if all the protesters get together to form some sort of union and put pressure on the rich, through programmes like work stoppages, then...
The right-wing government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has angrily denied charges of racism against its coalition partners. Such accusations have been made in a recent UN report on xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. The rebirth of racist and xenophobic...
Our leaders need to maintain a level of decency while addressing public meetings and other forums and making comments on personal matters of others. Presently, it is far from desirable. The deliberations do not bespeak of a leader of any...
Bangladesh could largely avoid the effects of the first global recession in 2008 because of its relatively insular position in the global economy or less linkages with the global economy. But whether it can go on remaining unaffected when another...
Jubair Hasan Transactions at the makeshift cattle markets in the city was dull Friday as most buyers found the prices of sacrificial animals 'high'. The traders had expected a good response from the buyers on the day, the weekly holiday....
Aiming to make the country's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) an effective force to propel social and economic development, the government is planning a major clean-up in this sector with revoking licences of wrongdoers and inactive ones. The regulator of this sector...
Nizam Ahmed Management of nuclear waste from the planned Rooppur nuclear power plants is most unlikely to become any major problem, official experts said on Friday refuting the concern of certain environmentalists. The nuclear power plants may turn out to...
MAKKAH, Nov 4 (AFP): More than 2.5 million Muslim pilgrims began on Friday the rites of the annual hajj pilgrimage, leaving the holy city of Mecca for Mount Arafat, where the prophet Mohammed is believed to have delivered his final...
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (AFP): The number of Americans living in extreme poverty has grown by more than one-third over the past decade, the Brookings Institution said in a study out Thursday. Over the past decade, the number of US residents...
The communications minister has urged 'the people to wait' until the end of the present government's tenure to see developments in railway sector, reports bdnews24.com. "Something will happen that had never happened before," Syed Abul Hossain told reporters while visiting...
Yasir Wardad Export of jute products to India faces a major setback as India has imposed four per cent countervailing duty (CVD) on Bangladesh's exports recently, business leaders said. "The Indian government imposed four per cent CVD on our jute...
FE Report The prices of all spices remained high despite adequate supply at the city's kitchen market just two days before the Eid-ul-Azha, traders said Friday. As a number of people have already left the capital city to celebrate the...
Bangalore, Nov 4 (Reuters): The Washington Post Co posted a quarterly loss as advertising revenue at its flagship newspaper fell and fewer students signed up at its Kaplan chain of for-profit colleges. The company's third-quarter net loss was $6.2 million,...
Sonia H Moni The processing cost of sacrificial animals will be higher in the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha as professional butchers have raised the charges they usually demand for this purpose that vary from area to area in the city. "I used...
Ismail Hossain Cattle bone traders in the country are getting prepared to collect bones of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha. Around half the annual requirement of bones is usually available during Eid-ul-Azha every year and for this bone crushing factories remain...
LONDONPARIS, Nov 4 (Reuters): Banks including BNP Paribas and ING are ditching billions of euros of euro zone government bonds, cutting their exposure to the region's trouble spots. More lenders are expected to retreat as the euro zone crisis deepens...
HAVANA, Nov 4 (AFP): The Castro government has allowed individuals to buy and sell homes for the first time in 50 years, bringing relief to Cubans celebrating the latest reforms of the island's Soviet-style economy. "It's about time," said Aida...
OTTAWA, Nov 4 (Reuters): Unexpected job losses in October pushed Canada's unemployment rate higher, confirming expectations the economy is weakening and interest rate increases are off the radar. The economy unexpectedly ditched almost all the jobs gained in September as...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 4 (Xinhua): Brazil's gross domestic product (GDP) will grow 3.2 per cent in 2011, a report released by Brazilian Banking Federation (Febraban) said Thursday. In its September report, Febraban estimated that the Brazilian economy would expand...
MANILA, Nov 4 (Xinhua): Higher food an utility prices in the Philippines pushed up the country's inflation rate to 5.2 per cent in October, according to the latest report released by the national statistics office (NSO). The 2006-based inflation rate...
USA, Nov 04 (Reuters): The United States, Britain and France turned up the pressure on Tehran Thursday ahead of next week's release of a keenly awaited UN report that may offer new details about the military side of Iran's nuclear...
NEW DELHI, Nov 4 (AFP): Indian social activist Anna Hazare, whose campaign for a tough anti-corruption law has drawn huge public support, vowed Friday to start a new movement against the ruling Congress party. The 74-year-old activist wants anti-graft legislation...
DAMASCUS, Nov 4 (AFP): Syrian troops killed 20 civilians and arrested dozens Thursday, a rights watchdog said, a day after Damascus pledged to withdraw its forces from protest hubs under a deal with the Arab League to end months of...
FE Report The downtrend at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued for the fifth straight week that ended Thursday with significantly declining turnover in value terms, as investors were reluctant to make fresh exposure in the market in line with...
HONG KONG, Nov 4 (AFP): Asian markets rose Friday as Greece scrapped plans for a national vote on last week's eurozone rescue package, which had drawn condemnation and shocked world markets. Investor confidence was also boosted by a surprise rate...
NEW YORK, Nov 4 (AFP): US stocks opened lower Friday, as investors digested slightly better-than-expected US jobs data and kept an eye on Europe's public debt crisis, with Greece's fate still uncertain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 79.16 points...
The mainstream media's (read dominant western groups) pathological glee at the fall of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi on October 20, 2011, seems to be somewhat tempered lately, now that the analyses of conscientious people across the globe are getting the attention...
Smritikatarata is a word that conveys the meaning most appropriately of a time that has gone by and will never return no matter whatever effort and price one is ready to expend and pay. But is this as direct and...
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