YANGON, March 2 (AFP): Myanmar has halted rice exports to stockpile the staple, aiming to shield food costs at home from the possible impact of rising oil prices caused by Middle East unrest, an official said Wednesday. "I think the...
BRUSSELS, Mar 2 (Agencies): NATO allies were split Wednesday on whether to unleash their military might on Libya to stop Muammar Gaddafi's reprisals against rebels, with fears raised about angering ordinary Arabs. As two US warships sailed towards Libya, ambassadors...
The Ministry of Shipping Wednesday formed a cell, named Third Seaport Construction Cell, to construct the country's third seaport in Patuakhali. The objective of the cell is to carry out feasibility study and accomplish subsequent tasks for setting up the...
The first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on the proposed Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was held Wednesday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The meeting decided to rename the committee as National Committee on the Rooppur Nuclear...
AHMEDABAD, March 1: An Indian court Tuesday handed down 11 death sentences and 20 life terms to those found guilty of setting a train on fire in 2002, triggering anti-Muslim rioting that left 2,000 dead. Last week, 31 Muslims were...
SANAA, March 1: Vast numbers of protesters poured into the centre of Yemen's capital Sanaa on Tuesday for a massive anti-regime rally called by the opposition, an AFP correspondent said. Protesters crowded three streets leading to a square near Sanaa...
Just imagine nobody in Bangladesh believes in any religion. "Not to follow a religion", let us suppose, has become a new culture in Bangladesh. People are considering a faith that is not compatible with science or modernity, not a religion....
IN her recent inaugural address to the fifth Asian Pharma Expo-2011, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the pharmaceutical companies to be more vigilant over preventing the marketing of sub-standard medicine. She also asked them to take steps towards reducing...
UNFORTUNATELY, the ninth Jatiya Sangsad (JS) or parliament that has already completed two years, has failed to bring about any change in the culture of boycotting the parliamentary sessions. Both people and political parties know that without an effective opposition,...
A report, published on the back page of a local English daily on February 15 about the lighter vessel operation at Chittagong Outer Anchorage, suggests that here too is an area of corruption and connivance, between the lighter vessel operators...
Time is ripe to start considering seriously the establishment of desalination plants in Bangladesh as our rivers are experiencing leaner and more polluted flows and it is proving to be too dangerous to encourage free-style lifting of underground water for...
RECENTLY a news item, along with a photograph appeared in a newspaper, showing a farmer feeding his cow with potato. The reason for that is bumper production of potato for which the selling price of potato came down to Tk....
FE Report | 2011-03-03 00:00:00
FE ReportThe government has decided to expand the open market sale (OMS) of rice by increasing its quantity and also the number of trucks. The number of trucks, engaged under the programme, will be increased by 50 in the capital....
YANGON, March 2 (AFP): Myanmar has halted rice exports to stockpile the staple, aiming to shield food costs at home from the possible impact of rising oil prices caused by Middle East unrest, an official said Wednesday. "I think the...
BRUSSELS, Mar 2 (Agencies): NATO allies were split Wednesday on whether to unleash their military might on Libya to stop Muammar Gaddafi's reprisals against rebels, with fears raised about angering ordinary Arabs. As two US warships sailed towards Libya, ambassadors...
The Ministry of Shipping Wednesday formed a cell, named Third Seaport Construction Cell, to construct the country's third seaport in Patuakhali. The objective of the cell is to carry out feasibility study and accomplish subsequent tasks for setting up the...
The first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on the proposed Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was held Wednesday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The meeting decided to rename the committee as National Committee on the Rooppur Nuclear...
AHMEDABAD, March 1: An Indian court Tuesday handed down 11 death sentences and 20 life terms to those found guilty of setting a train on fire in 2002, triggering anti-Muslim rioting that left 2,000 dead. Last week, 31 Muslims were...
SANAA, March 1: Vast numbers of protesters poured into the centre of Yemen's capital Sanaa on Tuesday for a massive anti-regime rally called by the opposition, an AFP correspondent said. Protesters crowded three streets leading to a square near Sanaa...
Mahmudur Rahman | 2011-03-03 00:00:00
Mahmudur RahmanIt now seems to be a practice for new governments to avoid unpopular taxation measures during the first couple of years of their tenure, bring in the biting proposals in the middle years and take the foot off the...
Some 465 Bangladeshi workers who were employed in Libya will return home early today (Thursday) by a chartered plane, officials said in Dhaka Wednesday night, reports UNB. On Wednesday a total of 689 workers arrived in different batches from Egypt...
FE Report | 2011-03-03 00:00:00
FE ReportThe plastic sector businesses demanded reduction in import duty on raw materials to 3.0 per cent from existing 5.0 per cent and sought withdrawal of tax on import of capital machinery. Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BPGMEA)...
The government has a plan to formally begin the operations of Expatriate Welfare Bank on April 20, the day when the fourth ministerial level conference of Colombo Process would be inaugurated, reports BSS. This was disclosed by Prime Minister Sheikh...
ISLAMABAD, Mar 2 (AFP): Gunmen shot dead a Catholic Pakistani government minister on Wednesday, after he had vowed to defy death threats following the murder of another politician opposed to an Islamic blasphemy law. In broad daylight, unknown assailants sprayed...
FE Report | 2011-03-03 00:00:00
FE ReportThe Ministry of Finance (MoF) Wednesday formed an eight-member implementation committee to oversee the activities of the capital market and help implement the decisions of the government to this effect. The move came as part of the fresh government...
FE Report | 2011-03-03 00:00:00
FE ReportAll subsidiaries of merchant banks or bank brokerage firms, as per new SEC provision, must be fully owned by their parent companies with a view to protecting the interest of shareholders, sources said. Under this provision, the Securities and...
FE Report | 2011-03-03 00:00:00
FE ReportTransparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed concern over the revised Anti-Corruption Commission (Amendment) Bill that was placed in parliament Tuesday, saying that it will spoil the freedom of the Commission. According to the proposed amendment, the Commission will require...
BRUSSELS, Mar 2 (Agencies): NATO allies were split Wednesday on whether to unleash their military might on Libya to stop Muammar Gaddafi's reprisals against rebels, with fears raised about angering ordinary Arabs. As two US warships sailed towards Libya, ambassadors...
The Ministry of Shipping Wednesday formed a cell, named Third Seaport Construction Cell, to construct the country's third seaport in Patuakhali. The objective of the cell is to carry out feasibility study and accomplish subsequent tasks for setting up the...
The first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on the proposed Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was held Wednesday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The meeting decided to rename the committee as National Committee on the Rooppur Nuclear...
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