Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over many places of Dhaka, Rajshahi, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Khulna division today (Monday).Night temperature may fall slightly over the country, Met...
FE ReportThe High Court (HC) has asked the government to explain why an order should not be issued to declare an SEC member disqualified for issuing two directives, bypassing the Commission, a lawyer said.A HC bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin...
FE Report The inter-bank call money rate hit 40 per cent Sunday following squeezing liquidity support by the central bank, officials said.The call rate ranged between 7.0 per cent and 40 per cent on the day against 16-32 per cent...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has launched an investigation to assess actual income earned from the latest concert of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan that took place in the city Friday.Taxmen will scrutinise expenditures and the sponsored amount...
FE Report Robi Axiata Limited, owners of the telecom brand 'Robi', posted Tk 397 million net profit in the third quarter (Q3) of this year against its Tk 472 million of loss in the same period of 2009. Robi's profit...
Siddique Islam Excess liquidity in the country's banking sector declined by over 3.50 per cent in October this year as investment demand increased reflecting a higher credit flow in the private sector.The overall excess liquidity with the commercial banks came...
FE Report Providing loan with lower interest rate on priority basis, development of communication infrastructure and expansion of institutional and technical facilities could enhance the country's export growth, said entrepreneurs at a seminar in the city.They called upon the government...
In the wake of widespread violence in garment factories at different parts of the country, the labour minister has assured the workers of reviewing their minimum wage and urged them to refrain from vandalism, reports agencies. Labour minister Khandaker Mosharraf...
Adnan M L Karim"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is…"-- Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States THE Supreme Court has declared the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution illegal...
Enamul HaqueThe export processing zones (EPZs) in Bangladesh have proved to be useful drawing investors, particularly from abroad, and contributing to the country's export earnings. But for some time thoughts were expressed about the setting up of special economic zones...
UNREST is again showing up on a worrying scale in the export-oriented readymade garments (RMG) sector. Several factories seemed to be gripped by workers' unrest in the Savar-Ashulia belt last week as workers in them agitated for implementation of their...
Maswood Alam Khan in Maryland, USAACTIVISTS claiming they have the right of access to any secret information have waged a war of hacking by what is technically called "Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks" to bring down the websites of...
MA SamadThe absence of regular maintenance activity, according to one estimate, alone costs the country in the neighbourhood of $1.0 million every day, in terms of the depreciated value of the roads from wearing and tearing. No estimate is available...
BANGLADESH has a 134-point programme to enhance the country's coping strengths against climate change. But there are concerns-- internal as well as external -- about how sound and appropriate such plans would be to raise Bangladesh's protection against the most...
A major demand from pharmaceutical industries is for the establishment of a government operated central testing laboratory for export- oriented pharmaceutical industries. The laboratory can be very useful in strengthening the reputation of local pharmaceutical products abroad through dependable quality...
According to respondents to a TIB questionnaire , the greatest number gave their view that the police are the most corrupt. This was no wonder. Most of the respondents are from the ordinary strata of society. They come across the...
RANGPUR, Dec 12 (BSS): The landless people, small and marginal farmers have already started farming various Rabi crops in the vast tracts of the dried up beds and chars of the major rivers and tributaries in the northern region. They...
NETRAKONA, Dec 12 (UNB): Two people were killed in separate incidents at Durgapur and Modon Upazilas of the district Friday.In Drugapur, Abdul Aziz of Badua village asked his wife to bring some money and one maund of paddy from her...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Dec 12: Processing of dry fish has been suspended in different fishermen colony in the coastal area of Sundarbans due to rough weather and low sunshine for last few days. Sea fishes worth about Tk 10 million has...
Our CorrespondentRANGPUR, Dec 12: Farmers of Rangpur district are expecting a bumper production of mustard this season as the weather seems to be very conducive to mustard cultivation, sources said. According to Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources, a total...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Dec 12: Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a target of producing 5,952 tonnes of garlic is 9,92 hectares of land during the current Robi season of 2010-2011 in Nilphamari district. Sources said the farmers have already...
CHUADANGA, Dec 12 (BSS): Two children were killed in two separate road accidents at Alamdanga and Jibannagar upazilas of the district Saturday. The deceased were Israil (3) of Khadimpur village in Alamdanga Upazila and Shumi (6) of Piaratala village in...
Our CorrespondentPANCHAGARH, Dec 12: A bumper production of cauliflower and cabbage are likely in Panchagarh district in the current winter season. The vegetables have met the local demand and are being exported to other places of the country and thus...
Our Correspondent KHULNA, Dec 12: World Human Rights Day was observed in Khulna, as elsewhere in the country Friday with a renewed call for the establishment of human rights. The day also observed in Bagrhat and Satkhira. Various groups arranged...
Housewife killed over trivial incident A housewife succumbed in her injuries in the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital early Saturday who was critically injured by her neighbors on Thursday afternoon. The victim was identified as Beauty Khatun (32), wife of Babul...
STOCKHOLM, Dec 12 (agencies): Twin blasts in central Stockholm killed one person and injured two others, in what Sweden's foreign minister said was a "terrorist" attack that could have had "catastrophic" consequences.The explosions Saturday, in a busy part of the...
THE 12-day COP 16 at Cancun ends today but whether or not the climate change negotiations will yield something substantial for the protection of mankind's one and only habitat from becoming more and more 'feverish', is yet to be seen....
Shahiduzzaman KhanMINISTER of Labour and Employment Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, at a meeting with a delegation of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) in the city recently, lamented that high migration cost, illegal stay abroad and activities of some unscrupulous...
Gopal SenguptaSo many questions and concerns have been raised by local artists over Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan's performance with many Indian stars in the Army Stadium in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka. A great excitement was noticed among the people...
Another deadly railway accident took away over a dozen valuable lives and injured hundreds apart from huge loss of properties. As per media reports, during the last ten years more than five thousand serious railway accidents occurred with no sign...
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