FE Today Logo

Search results for:


Japan supports centre for disabled, poor women

2011-05-11 00:00:00

A resource centre has been launched in Lalmonirhat with the support of Japan to provide various training and physiotherapy to poor women and disabled, reports BSS. At least 1200 disabled will be able to receive high quality physiotherapy every year...

Painting camp by BD artists begins in Delhi

2011-05-11 00:00:00

NEW DELHI, May 10 (BSS): A painting camp by a group of senior artists from Bangladesh began here Tuesday at the Lalit Kala Academy Galleries at Rabindra Bhavan to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of poet Rabindranath Tagore. The painting...

K Sami, Farooq president, secy of DUSA ******

2011-05-11 00:00:00

FE ReportCM Koyes Sami and Farooq Hossain have recently been elected president and secretary general of the Dhaka University Sociology Alumni (DUSA) for 2011-13. Sami, a noted banker, is the president of Surjasen Hall Ex-Students' Association and was the secretary...

Abduction of GB staff protested***

2011-05-11 00:00:00

FE ReportHundreds of employees of Grameen Bank Monday observed one-hour work abstention at the bank's headquarters in Mirpur to protest abduction and attack on one of its staff. Nearly 800 employees of the Nobel peace prize winning organisation under the...

Appeal for help****

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Murad Hossain Masum, an employee of The News Today has been suffering from cancer. The doctors have advised his family to send him abroad for better treatment immediately. But the family is unable to bear the expenses of his treatment....

weather

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Comilla and Noakhali in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Tuesday). Weather...

weather

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Monday). Day temperature may rise slightly...

weather

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...

Get your piece of pie, Mr Investor

2011-05-11 00:00:00

A F M Mainul AhsanHello, Mr. Investor! Yes, I am talking to you. Right now you might be in front of the Dhaka Stock Exchange or the Securities and Exchange Commission protesting against the very recent price decline in the...

Freedom of press and our media

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Shamsher ChowdhuryGone are the days when our journalistic community was considered one of the integral parts of our society at large. They too, like many others of the civil society and the intellectual communities in general, are viewed with considerable...

Saving expatriate workers from exploitation

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Abrar Ahmed The Bangladeshi workers living and working abroad who number some 6.5 million and sent some US$ 10.5 billion in remittances in 2009, equivalent to more than 10 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), are one...

8 police officers of CMP transferred

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 10: Chittagong Police Commissioner today shuffled the police administration transferring five assistant commissioners (AC) and three inspectors within Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP). CMP Commissioner Abul Kashem said it was as part of routine transfer in the metropolitan...

Japan supports centre for disabled, poor women

2011-05-11 00:00:00

A resource centre has been launched in Lalmonirhat with the support of Japan to provide various training and physiotherapy to poor women and disabled, reports BSS. At least 1200 disabled will be able to receive high quality physiotherapy every year...

Painting camp by BD artists begins in Delhi

2011-05-11 00:00:00

NEW DELHI, May 10 (BSS): A painting camp by a group of senior artists from Bangladesh began here Tuesday at the Lalit Kala Academy Galleries at Rabindra Bhavan to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of poet Rabindranath Tagore. The painting...

K Sami, Farooq president, secy of DUSA ******

2011-05-11 00:00:00

FE ReportCM Koyes Sami and Farooq Hossain have recently been elected president and secretary general of the Dhaka University Sociology Alumni (DUSA) for 2011-13. Sami, a noted banker, is the president of Surjasen Hall Ex-Students' Association and was the secretary...

Abduction of GB staff protested***

2011-05-11 00:00:00

FE ReportHundreds of employees of Grameen Bank Monday observed one-hour work abstention at the bank's headquarters in Mirpur to protest abduction and attack on one of its staff. Nearly 800 employees of the Nobel peace prize winning organisation under the...

Appeal for help****

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Murad Hossain Masum, an employee of The News Today has been suffering from cancer. The doctors have advised his family to send him abroad for better treatment immediately. But the family is unable to bear the expenses of his treatment....

weather

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Comilla and Noakhali in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Tuesday). Weather...

weather

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Monday). Day temperature may rise slightly...

weather

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...

A welcome decision on closed PSTN operators

2011-05-11 00:00:00

THE government, according to a report published in this paper last Saturday, has decided to reissue licences to two of the five private sector PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) operators that were shut down in March last year following their...

US, Pakistan lock horns in deepening crisis

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Lachlan Carmichael of AFP from WashingtonThe United States and Pakistan locked horns May 9 over the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in what looks increasingly like the two countries' worst crisis since they became war-on-terror allies. One expert...

Plea to withdraw 10 per cent tax on savings certificates

2011-05-11 00:00:00

decision, Kamal Ahmed The government from the current fiscal year imposed a 10 per cent tax at source on interest earnings from the government-issued saving certificates. There is hardly the need to mention that the decision has not been a...

Fascinated by his writing

2011-05-11 00:00:00

The article headlined 'Corporal punishment must stop' is the most powerful piece of 'sit-up and pay attention' writing I've read in many years. (Financial Express, May 5). If Sir Frank Peters can be accused of anything, it certainly isn't diluting...

Elevated expressway

2011-05-11 00:00:00

On the last day of April, the prime minister symbolically opened the work of the 26-kilometer expressway, as reported in the dailies next morning - the best news of May Day. Starting from the International airport, the expressway will meet...

Withdraw US troops

2011-05-11 00:00:00

With Osama bin Laden killed and his dead body thrown in the Arabian sea by the US, it should now kindly withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq immediately for the sake of peace and stability in the...

K Sami, Farooq president, secy of DUSA ******

2011-05-11 00:00:00

FE ReportCM Koyes Sami and Farooq Hossain have recently been elected president and secretary general of the Dhaka University Sociology Alumni (DUSA) for 2011-13. Sami, a noted banker, is the president of Surjasen Hall Ex-Students' Association and was the secretary...

Abduction of GB staff protested***

2011-05-11 00:00:00

FE ReportHundreds of employees of Grameen Bank Monday observed one-hour work abstention at the bank's headquarters in Mirpur to protest abduction and attack on one of its staff. Nearly 800 employees of the Nobel peace prize winning organisation under the...

Appeal for help****

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Murad Hossain Masum, an employee of The News Today has been suffering from cancer. The doctors have advised his family to send him abroad for better treatment immediately. But the family is unable to bear the expenses of his treatment....

weather

2011-05-11 00:00:00

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Comilla and Noakhali in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Tuesday). Weather...